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A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Single author
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book sold slowly, but during...
Short Poetry Collection 077 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 077 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2009....
Vices are not Crimes - Lysander Spooner
Vices are not Crimes - Lysander Spooner
- Author: Lysander Spooner
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labour movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. Here he gives his views on the role of...
The Mystery - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Mystery - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Mystery by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 12, 2012, Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th...
Herein is Love - Reuel Howe
Herein is Love - Reuel Howe
- Author: Reuel Howe
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Prescient look at the church, its message and role in society, both perceived and true, focused through the lens of the biblical doctrine of love, and demonstrated in relationships between parent and child, parishioners and public, and pastor and...
Stepping Heavenward (version 2) - Elizabeth Prentiss
Stepping Heavenward (version 2) - Elizabeth Prentiss
- Author: Elizabeth Prentiss
- Genre: Christian Fiction
How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and spiritual journey on the pages of her dear. old journal. Whimsical and charming Katherine is engagingly candid about...
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or is it? The castle turns out to...
The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons
The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons
- Author: Orlando Gibbons
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011. Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean...
Short Story Collection Vol. 032 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 032 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 032: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
The Story of Mankind - Hendrik van Loon
The Story of Mankind - Hendrik van Loon
- Author: Hendrik van Loon
- Genre: Reference / History
Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the people and events that changed the course of history. Portrays in vivid prose the achievements of mankind in...
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
Wisdom is one of the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is a wisdom book, bearing similarity to the canonical works. Scholars believe that the book represents the most classical Greek language found in the Septuagint, having been...
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female...
Katha Upanishad - Unknown
Katha Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
The Flying Girl - L. Frank Baum
The Flying Girl - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Frank L. Baum, author of the Oz books, delivers an engaging story for all ages. Orissa Kane works in order to provide for her family. Her mother is blind, while her brother devotes his time to his invention, a flying machine. Everything changes when...
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2 - Songling Pu
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2 - Songling Pu
- Author: Songling Pu
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai" is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular...
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the...
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a...
The Witness - Grace Livingston Hill
The Witness - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Romance
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith of a classmate. Paul must overcome temptations of his own emotions and troublesome friends to grow in his...
Our Little Korean Cousin - Henry Lee Mitchell Pike
Our Little Korean Cousin - Henry Lee Mitchell Pike
- Author: Henry Lee Mitchell Pike
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the child and keeps their minds open to the possibility of other people living wonderful lives in far off...
War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its surface, float swiftly by logs and...
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy - Frances Milton Trollope
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight of Michael Armstrong, one of the boys who is forced to work there. The aim of the novel was to expose the...
The Little Colonel's House Party - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel's House Party - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Family
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into the new ways very readily. The...
Contrasted Songs - Marian Longfellow
Contrasted Songs - Marian Longfellow
- Author: Marian Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, "Among these "Contrasted Songs" I trust that the reader will find something to which the heart may respond." -...
The Iliad for Boys and Girls - Alfred John Church
The Iliad for Boys and Girls - Alfred John Church
- Author: Alfred John Church
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical
Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a style so that younger readers may follow the story. The Iliad for Boys and Girls is a retelling of Homer’s...
The Gift To Sing - James Weldon Johnson
The Gift To Sing - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Gift To Sing by James Weldon Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2019. ------ James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, civil rights...
Why Crime Does Not Pay - Sophie Lyons
Why Crime Does Not Pay - Sophie Lyons
- Author: Sophie Lyons
- Genre: Memoirs
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his field or Morgan and Rockefeller do in theirs-could not fail to be impressive and valuable and prove the oft...
A Nautical Ballad - Charles Edward Carryl
A Nautical Ballad - Charles Edward Carryl
- Author: Charles Edward Carryl
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of A Nautical Ballad by Charles Edward Carryl....
Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers - Isaac Taylor
Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers - Isaac Taylor
- Author: Isaac Taylor
- Genre: Travel Fiction
In this little volume, Isaac Taylor takes us on a tour of Europe, anno 1824. We travel once around the entire continent, starting in England, through Scandinavia, Russia, down to Turkey, over the Alps, France, Spain, and back to England. The tour is...
The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Yee-haw!! The Pony Riders Boys are on the move again! In their last adventure, they are on their way with Professor Zepplin to Alaska. On the "Corsair", they see gold miners on their way to seek their fortune, so the Pony Rider Boys decide to join...
A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 2 - David Hume
A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 2 - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: Early Modern
This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how they are to be divided. It includes important statements of Scepticism and Hume's experimental method. Part 1 deals...
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works / Humor
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)...
Maitrayana Upanishad - Unknown
Maitrayana Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: Early Modern
Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in France and its importance in wars. It continues with its descendant as he moves to Canada and defends the...
Our Little German Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Our Little German Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This book is part of the "Our Little Cousin" series, written for North American children to tell them about their 'cousins' from other parts of the world. Embark on a journey to 19th Century Germany with Bertha, Gretchen and Hans. They live in a...
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself - P. T. Barnum
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It details his life and business struggles up to the year 1872. Not only a showman and a museum operator, but an antislavery...
The Curtezan Unmasked - Anonymous
The Curtezan Unmasked - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Religion / Self-Help
"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust" is a fire-and-brimstone polemic by "A Spiritual Physician" to persuade young men not to...
The Underground Railroad, Part 3 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 3 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various methods adopted for circumventing the enemies of freedom, and told, as it is, with great simplicity and natural...
A Coin Of Edward VII - Fergus Hume
A Coin Of Edward VII - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is clearly in love with the governess Anne Denham. Things come to a head when Daisy is murdered. Who would...
Gleams of Sunshine - Joseph Horatio Chant
Gleams of Sunshine - Joseph Horatio Chant
- Author: Joseph Horatio Chant
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Church. - Summary by Carolin...
The Box with the Broken Seals - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Box with the Broken Seals - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equally divided between the spy and his relentless pursuer. In my opinion, one of Oppenheim’s best. (Summary by...
