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Richard Strauss - Herbert Francis Peyser
Richard Strauss - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters... If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein Heldenleben” and “Till...
Carpenter's geographical reader: Europe - Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's geographical reader: Europe - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Reference / Travel & Geography
The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge of Europe. The author conducts tours through various parts of Europe giving a glimpse of the people and their lives and livelihoods. He includes as well information on the natural resources...
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba - Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba - Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
- Author: Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
- Genre: Memoirs / Letters
In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to fall. While there, she had to give...
The Coming of the Law - Charles Alden Seltzer
The Coming of the Law - Charles Alden Seltzer
- Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
A young Easterner, Hollis, a newspaper reporter, arrives in a small western town, to inherit his father’s ranch and his newspaper. He discovers that the town and the entire county are controlled by an unscrupulous cattleman, Dunlavey. This guy is a...
Thanksgiving - Kate Seymour MacLean
Thanksgiving - Kate Seymour MacLean
- Author: Kate Seymour MacLean
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A tribute to the autumn season, taken from THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS, AND OTHER POEMS (1881) - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Valley of Fear (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Receiving a mysterious cypher message from a Fred Porlock, apparent agent of the infamous Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson set about deciphering the message, taking them into the mysterious murder of John Douglas. The connection between the...
The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918 - N. P. Dawson
The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918 - N. P. Dawson
- Author: N. P. Dawson
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds that he does not think of them as letters at all, but as boys… but the spirit of these letters cannot be...
Living Alone - Stella Benson
Living Alone - Stella Benson
- Author: Stella Benson
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot...
Short Story Collection Vol. 014 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 014 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 014: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Alessandro Manzoni
- Author: Alessandro Manzoni
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Published 1800 -1900
One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and Lucy, are engaged to be married when Lucy tragically disappears. Little does Renzo know that Lucy has been...
Schopenhauer in the Air - Sadakichi Hartmann
Schopenhauer in the Air - Sadakichi Hartmann
- Author: Sadakichi Hartmann
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Sadakichi Hartmann was an art and literary critic who wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. Hauntingly beautiful, these seven early short stories dance with themes of beauty and death, love and the soul, and existence itself. As...
Out from the Heart - James Allen
Out from the Heart - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Self-Help
James Allen teaches us how to purify our hearts through the fundamental lessons of virtue: physical discipline, mental discipline, doing your best, self-honesty, and forgiveness. If assiduously practiced, these principles will lead to a blessed life...
The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: "the little sea lady") is a very well known fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid...
A Poe-em of Passion - Charles F. Lummis
A Poe-em of Passion - Charles F. Lummis
- Author: Charles F. Lummis
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Poe-em of Passion by C. F. Lummis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 17, 2013, and is an amusing parody of Poe's Annabel Lee....
The Great White Queen - William Le Queux
The Great White Queen - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular Librivox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different direction by the author. The book starts out like most Le Queux. Our hero, Richard Scarsmere, befriends an...
Lancashire Characters and Places - Thomas Newbigging
Lancashire Characters and Places - Thomas Newbigging
- Author: Thomas Newbigging
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in...
Collected Poems 1901-1918 - Walter De la Mare
Collected Poems 1901-1918 - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: Single author
Early poems written by Walter de la Mare. de la Mare is best remembered for his works for children. This collection includes: Poems: 1906 The Listeners: 1914 Motley: 1918 Songs of Childhood: 1901 (Summary by MaryAnn)...
The Parenticide Club - Ambrose Bierce
The Parenticide Club - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce vanished while an observer with Pancho Villa's army. Four grotesque short stories about murder within the...
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - Jonathan Swift
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers by Jonathan Swift. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 24th, 2008....
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Atheism & Agnosticism
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain - Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain - Van Wyck Brooks
- Author: Van Wyck Brooks
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother...
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris - Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in...
Historical Tales, Vol V: German - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol V: German - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Volume V of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of Germany from its first contact with Rome up to the coronation of Emperor William, describing...
Something New - P. G. Wodehouse
Something New - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willing to pay $5000 to the person who can get it back for him. Discretion is necessary since Peters’ daughter is...
I Stepped from Plank to Plank - Emily Dickinson
I Stepped from Plank to Plank - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of I Stepped from Plank to Plank by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful...
Wandering Ghosts - Francis Marion Crawford
Wandering Ghosts - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even vampires. - Summary by Carolin...
Bird Stories from Burroughs - John Burroughs
Bird Stories from Burroughs - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: Animals
What a better way to learn about birds than to read this delightful collection of interesting bird stories! John Burroughs was a nature essayist. These creative, observation- and emotion-driven stories about birds (largely from the Northeastern...
Stage Land - Jerome K. Jerome
Stage Land - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor / Literary Criticism
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, "the earnest student of drama".'...
The Penitent - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Penitent - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you12 recordings of The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. ------ A saucy little poem about a girl with a guilt free conscience! A very prolific poet and playwright,...
The Gods are Athirst - Anatole France
The Gods are Athirst - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste Gamelin, who rises speedily from his...
Cardinal Wolsey - Mandell Creighton
Cardinal Wolsey - Mandell Creighton
- Author: Mandell Creighton
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulment of King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The eminent British historian, Mandell Creighton,...
The Sailor - Michael Earls
The Sailor - Michael Earls
- Author: Michael Earls
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Michael Earls, S.J. was a Jesuit priest, as well as a writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. - Summary by Wikipedia...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des débats from June 19, 1842 until October 15, 1843. Les Mystères de Paris singlehandedly increased the circulation of Journal...
Knight And Wamba - Sir Walter Scott
Knight And Wamba - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A fun poem with a great rhythm . - Summary by Stav Nisser....
What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood - Bret Harte
What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction,...
Amphibians and Reptiles in Captivity - Donald J Coxwell
Amphibians and Reptiles in Captivity - Donald J Coxwell
- Author: Donald J Coxwell
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
In recent years the number of people interested in keeping amphibians and reptiles in captivity has grown rapidly. All too often, these same people have little knowledge of the proper care needed for their captives, nor do they know where to turn in...
Hints for Lovers - Arnold Haultain
Hints for Lovers - Arnold Haultain
- Author: Arnold Haultain
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
"Hints for Lovers" is a thorough analysis of relationships between men and women, about everything that lovers should know, and delves deep into the psychology of men and women, and the philosophy of courtship, engagement, kissing, making love,...
Voodoo Planet - Andre Norton
Voodoo Planet - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Science Fiction
The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit to the safari planet of Khatka, where they find...
The Cave On Thunder Cloud - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Cave On Thunder Cloud - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Tish Carberry reluctantly takes her two best friends, Aggie and Lizzie, on a camping trip into the hills of their Midwestern American town, only to fall in with outlaws on the lam from a train robbery! Comic adventure ensues. - Summary by Matt...
Delight in Disorder - Robert Herrick
Delight in Disorder - Robert Herrick
- Author: Robert Herrick
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674[1]) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for his book of poems, Hesperides.Herrick never married, and none of his love-poems seem to connect directly with...
