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The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
- Author: Carlo Collodi
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was published in serial form between 1881 and 1883, and then completed as a book for children in February 1883....
The Vicar of Tours - Honoré de Balzac
The Vicar of Tours - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Undefined
Over twenty years before Anthony Trollope wrote The Warden, in which the gentle but unfortunate Rev. Septimus Harding becomes the prey of an investigative journalist, in 1831 Balzac published his Vicar of Tours. There too, a mild-mannered priest...
The Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Gods of Mars is a 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the second of his famous Barsoom series.It can be said that the novel set the tone for much science fiction to come. Its influence can clearly be seen in franchises such as Star...
Bible (KJV) NT 27: Revelation - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 27: Revelation - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The final book of the Holy Scriptures describes a dramatic, often terrifying vision by John, who may or may not have been the same John who was an apostle to Jesus Christ. A prisoner on the island of Patmos, John sees the unveiling of Christ as He...
Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches - Saki
Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Reginald in Russia is the title story in a collection of fifteen witty and satirical stories, sketches and one "playlet" by that master of the short story H. H. Munro, better Known as Saki. The stories are: Reginald in Russia -- The Reticence of...
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley - John Gilmary Shea
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley - John Gilmary Shea
- Author: John Gilmary Shea
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern / Exploration
"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette's map and voyage have indeed appeared, but the narrative varies in no small degree from the authentic manuscript,...
A Happy Boy - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A Happy Boy - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Genre: Romance
"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his...
The Moon To The Sun - Alice Meynell
The Moon To The Sun - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth (the artist Lady Elizabeth Butler,...
The Planet Savers - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Planet Savers - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Terran colony on the planet Darkover faces imminent destruction by a plague of the deadly Trailmen's Fever. The only hope is to develop a serum in time, but this requires the cooperation of the elusive native Trailmen, the brilliant...
Bible (Fenton) 28-39: Holy Bible in Modern English: Hosea - Malaki - Ferrar Fenton Bible
Bible (Fenton) 28-39: Holy Bible in Modern English: Hosea - Malaki - Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Author: Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Genre: Bibles
Work on the translation began in 1853 by a London businessman called Ferrar Fenton (1832–1920). The complete Bible was first published in 1903, though parts were published as separate volumes during the preceding 11 years. The translation is noted...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 5) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 5) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 5 chronicles Lincoln's life from...
The Boy Scouts in the Rockies - St. George Henry Rathborne
The Boy Scouts in the Rockies - St. George Henry Rathborne
- Author: St. George Henry Rathborne
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Starting off their trip to the Rockies with Step-Hen getting bitten by a snake, then Allan stepping on a bear trap, the Silver Fox Patrol is in for a big adventure! Thad has a lot to do looking after these boys, but with a lost mine to look for, and...
The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross
The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross
- Author: Albert Kinross
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a witch, a hairy man, and various...
Extracts from Adam's Diary - Mark Twain
Extracts from Adam's Diary - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn how Eve caught the infant Cain,...
November - Helen Hunt Jackson
November - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A...
Our Little English Cousin - Blanche McManus
Our Little English Cousin - Blanche McManus
- Author: Blanche McManus
- Genre: Family
This delightful little book is another in the "Our Little Cousin" series that offered American children insight into what their young counterparts in other lands were like; the games they played and the life they lived. - Summary by Phil Chenevert...
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1 - Niccolò Machiavelli
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1 - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: History / Political Science
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for his present. As the title mentions, the subject of the work is the...
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri - Maria Gowen Brooks
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri - Maria Gowen Brooks
- Author: Maria Gowen Brooks
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the 19th century to Byron and Swinburne. In it she tells the story of an ill-fated love affair she had twenty...
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Genre: Literary Criticism / Antiquity
Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson...
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire - Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire - Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin
- Author: Henriette Lucie Dillon marquise de La Tour du Pin
- Genre: Memoirs / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile (partly in Upstate New York) and of the court of Napoleon Bonaparte. This...
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest - Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Christina away to live with him at a robber baron's castle. Her peaceful life has suddenly turned upside down,...
Korean Fairy Tales - William Elliot Griffis
Korean Fairy Tales - William Elliot Griffis
- Author: William Elliot Griffis
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the particular kind of fairies that...
A Wet Day - Madison Cawein
A Wet Day - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019. ------ This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!) taken from The Poems of Madison...
The Palace in the Garden - Mary Louisa Molesworth
The Palace in the Garden - Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The Palace in the Garden is the engaging story of three orphans sent to live in the mysterious country cottage of ROSEBUDS. The inquisitive children piece together the unexpected mystery of the Palace in the garden & all that goes with it. The...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial problems make their marriage...
The Delafield Affair - Florence Finch Kelly
The Delafield Affair - Florence Finch Kelly
- Author: Florence Finch Kelly
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. Lucy Bancroft has sought a milder climate so she can recover from typhoid fever. She and her father stop to...
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2) - J. S. Fletcher
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2) - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way home after a long night on the job. But his newshound instincts kick in. Who is the elderly man? What was he...
A Little Swiss Sojourn - William Dean Howells
A Little Swiss Sojourn - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs,...
The Seasons' Comfort - Robert Laurence Binyon
The Seasons' Comfort - Robert Laurence Binyon
- Author: Robert Laurence Binyon
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Robert Laurence Binyon, was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services. - Summary by Wikipedia...
Angel Food Time: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
Angel Food Time: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
This is the sixth and final volume of the "Angel Food" Series by Father Brennan. This volume consists of 28 charming selections with titles such as "Six Red Roses", "The Three Little Angels", "A Surprise From Santa Claus" and "The Boy Who Dusted the...
The Sword of Deborah - F. Tennyson Jesse
The Sword of Deborah - F. Tennyson Jesse
- Author: F. Tennyson Jesse
- Genre: War & Military
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during World War I. She writes: "I was glad to have seen all the different convoys I had, because no two had been to me alike,...
Five Minutes' Stories - Mary Louisa Molesworth
Five Minutes' Stories - Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Genre: Short works
This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illustrations accompanying each story. - Summary by Carolin...
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass - Amy Lowell
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell. "For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of color these poems remind one of Flemish masters and Dutch tulip gardens; again, they are fine and fantastic,...
Short Science Fiction Collection 047 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
This is a collection of science fiction short stories....
Lost for Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lost for Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for her, and the gentle charm of her...
The Greek View of Life - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
The Greek View of Life - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Author: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Philosophy
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.” This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the...
Fortunatus' Song - Alfred Austin
Fortunatus' Song - Alfred Austin
- Author: Alfred Austin
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Not all of the English poets laureate have been the greatest masters of verse. Alfred Austin, who assumed this post after Alfred Lord Tennyson, was one of the less distinguished - if more prolific - late Victorian poets. In modern times, his verse...
Killgloom Park - Neil Boyton, S. J.
Killgloom Park - Neil Boyton, S. J.
- Author: Neil Boyton S. J.
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Religion
Join Angelo Daily and his chums during a fun filled summer at Killgloom Park, a Coney Island, New York amusement park in the 1930's. A runaway tiger! Tracking down a wanted thief! Climbing down a ferris wheel in the middle of the night! These are...
The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Yee-haw! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are headed to the canebrakes in the swamps of Louisiana. Of course trouble follows our friends into the swamp, but Chunky will surprise everyone in this book. - Summary by Ann...
