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Quest of the Golden Ape - Randall Garrett
Quest of the Golden Ape - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
How could this man awaken with no past—no childhood—no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy? - Summary by Gutenberg text Image...
The Men of Zanzibar - Richard Harding Davis
The Men of Zanzibar - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Romance
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island. While keeping his true identity well to himself, he falls in love with Ms....
The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: Modern
The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both detailed argumentation and...
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and meeting the charismatic pastor that seems to have influenced all her friends, tips her worldview, and she...
Flowing Gold - Rex Beach
Flowing Gold - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps...
A Dog's Book of Verse - J. Earl Clauson
A Dog's Book of Verse - J. Earl Clauson
- Author: J. Earl Clauson
- Genre: Anthologies
It is not surprising that dogs, beloved by so many, have received many poetic tributes throughout history. Here the author has gathered together short verses celebrating dogs. From the well-known poets to the less-known, each verse honors our canine...
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month,...
It Might Have Happened to You - Coningsby Dawson
It Might Have Happened to You - Coningsby Dawson
- Author: Coningsby Dawson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of "The Great War". “It is not stating matters too strongly to say that…peace had caused at...
The Club of Queer Trades - G. K. Chesterton
The Club of Queer Trades - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades. (Summary by David Barnes)...
Stories of North Pole Adventure - Frank Mundell
Stories of North Pole Adventure - Frank Mundell
- Author: Frank Mundell
- Genre: General / War & Military
This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar adventure in such a manner that the reader may feel something of the fascination which induces explorers, in...
The Beloved Vagabond - William John Locke
The Beloved Vagabond - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: General Fiction
The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he calls Asticot) by purchasing him from his mother for half a crown. Paragot leads Asticot on various adventures...
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and...
The Crimson Cryptogram - Fergus Hume
The Crimson Cryptogram - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Young Dr Ellis, a struggling new physician, is enjoying a quiet evening smoking and enjoying conversation with his journalist friend Cass, when their mysterious neighbour, Mrs Moxton, bursts in upon them with startling news - her husband has been...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, why he was imprisoned, and how he was treated during imprisonment, remains a mystery that has captivated...
A Problem in Modern Ethics - John Addington Symonds
A Problem in Modern Ethics - John Addington Symonds
- Author: John Addington Symonds
- Genre: Political Science / Psychology / Life Sciences
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.” John Addington Symonds struck many an heroic note in this courageous (albeit anonymously circulated) essay....
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible of Dickens' short works which had not previously been recorded for LibriVox. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I - International Military Tribunal
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I - International Military Tribunal
- Author: International Military Tribunal
- Genre: War & Military / Law / True Crime
Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German WWII war criminals, the International Military Tribunal, consisting of members from Great Britain, the USA, Russia, and France, directed the...
The Book of This and That - Robert Lynd
The Book of This and That - Robert Lynd
- Author: Robert Lynd
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Great Controversy - Ellen G. White
The Great Controversy - Ellen G. White
- Author: Ellen G. White
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
This great work covers the history of the Christian dispensation, from the fall of Jerusalem, through the Dark Ages and Reformation, to the yet-future final triumph of Jesus over Satan. - Summary by Jael Baldwin...
That Mother-in-Law of Mine - Anonymous
That Mother-in-Law of Mine - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: General Fiction
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out of patience. Everything was beautiful and attractive: Little hotel, strange to say, quite delightful; no fault...
The Silent House - Fergus Hume
The Silent House - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book, however, is filled with plot twists and...
Short Poetry Collection 058 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 058 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 058: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Best American Humorous Short Stories - Various
The Best American Humorous Short Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omitted from this Librivox audio book. (Summary by David Wales)...
Sir Francis Drake - Julian Corbett
Sir Francis Drake - Julian Corbett
- Author: Julian Corbett
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), the farmer's son who became Queen Elizabeth's most feared privateer and her most daring and resourceful...
Love and Intrigue - Friedrich Schiller
Love and Intrigue - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to...
Pope Pius the Tenth - Frances Alice Forbes
Pope Pius the Tenth - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
Pope Saint Pius X (2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope from 4 August 1903 to his death in 1914. He was the first pope since Pius V (1566 to 1572) to be canonized. St. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing...
Use Of The Dead To The Living - Thomas Southwood Smith
Use Of The Dead To The Living - Thomas Southwood Smith
- Author: Thomas Southwood Smith
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Law / Medical
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the United Kingdom was a wasteful use of bodies that could otherwise be used for dissection by the medical...
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of Kathleen and Joe from the letter and set out to find and meet Kathleen. The competition between them leads...
Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe
Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading playwrights took to penning languorously...
To Be a Pilgrim - John Bunyan
To Be a Pilgrim - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Single author / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
From John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, we find the poem To Be a Pilgrim, an inspiring reminder of who we are in Christ. This was the weekly poem for March 8-15, 2015. - Summary by Esther ben Simonides...
Recollections of a Busy Life - William Forwood
Recollections of a Busy Life - William Forwood
- Author: William Forwood
- Genre: Memoirs
Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously as the "New York of Europe" and the "Black Spot on the Mersey." Waist-deep in this mosaic we find William...
At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris - G. A. Henty
At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer went with her.Paris was turbulent. Soon the guild of...
The Diary of a Dead Officer - Arthur Graeme West
The Diary of a Dead Officer - Arthur Graeme West
- Author: Arthur Graeme West
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Religion / Atheism & Agnosticism
Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's increasing disillusion with war and his...
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air - Joseph Priestley
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air - Joseph Priestley
- Author: Joseph Priestley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Chemistry
Joseph Priestley, FRS (13 March 1733 (O.S.) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. In “Experiments and...
Work and Win; Noddy Newman on a Cruise - Oliver Optic
Work and Win; Noddy Newman on a Cruise - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Historical
The fourth book of the Woodville Series shares the progress of a boy whose education had been neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from vice and indifference to the development of a high moral and religious principle in...
Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest - Edward Tyson Allen
Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest - Edward Tyson Allen
- Author: Edward Tyson Allen
- Genre: Nature / Earth Sciences
Written by a forester, this book aims to educate people on the importance of maintaining forests and those events which pose a danger to forests. It looks at forests from multiple points of view, the public, lumbermen, and the farmer. Given the...
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of traditional English fairy tales. (description by Joy Chan)...
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and...
Boston Blackie - Jack Boyle
Boston Blackie - Jack Boyle
- Author: Jack Boyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, is a jewel thief based in San Francisco, who outwits the cops with the help of his wife Mary. The character...
The Young Pretenders - Edith Henrietta Fowler
The Young Pretenders - Edith Henrietta Fowler
- Author: Edith Henrietta Fowler
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Delightful and touching this wonderful little story should appeal to both the young and young at heart. Having lived happily with their grandmother in a large country home all of their young lives Babs 5, and Teddy 7, suddenly find themselves...
