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Short Poetry Collection 132 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 132 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014....
The Canadians of Old - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
The Canadians of Old - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
- Author: Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that of the late 1700s, the world of his youth. The result, published in French in 1863, was the historical fiction "Les...
Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology - Various
Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...The principle of selection was, so far as might be, aesthetic. Poems were chosen less for their representative...
In the Bishop's Carriage - Miriam Michelson
In the Bishop's Carriage - Miriam Michelson
- Author: Miriam Michelson
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by its occupants, Nance and her criminal boyfriend, Tom Dorgan, are pulling a con when the book begins. The...
The Blazed Trail - Stewart Edward White
The Blazed Trail - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness and many are based on his...
Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships - Various
Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Romance / Anthologies
This is a collection of 20 short works (between 3 and 15 minutes long) that are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for...
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler - Various
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
18 works -- two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each -- from issues March, April, May, June, July, & August 1906 of The Scrap Book, Volume 1, edited by Frank Munsey. As he states in the editorial of the April 1906 issue (Vol...
Melor of the Silver Hand; and Other Stories of the Bright Ages - David Bearne
Melor of the Silver Hand; and Other Stories of the Bright Ages - David Bearne
- Author: David Bearne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales by Rev. David Bearne. The stories take place in the "Bright Ages" as opposed to the more common epithet "dark ages", where heroes saved the world, saints performed miracles, and also anything else was possible....
Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 4, April 1899 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 4, April 1899 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250 - Lionel Allshorn
Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250 - Lionel Allshorn
- Author: Lionel Allshorn
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries "Stupor Mundi," the "astonishment of the world." Frequently at war with the papacy, which was hemmed in...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime / Middle Ages/Middle History
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy - Catherine Chisholm Cushing
Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy - Catherine Chisholm Cushing
- Author: Catherine Chisholm Cushing
- Genre: Plays
Miss Polly Harrington is not at all pleased to be taking charge of her orphaned niece - but duty is duty, and that's how Pollyanna Whittier ended up in New England. Cheerful and ever-optimistic, Pollyanna sets out to infect the whole town with her...
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand. He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm fingers made her tremble. His hand was massive and hard as if it were hewn of stone. She looked up at him and...
The Awkward Age - Henry James
The Awkward Age - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in London's fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment that adds to the...
Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Genre: Single author
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer than some modern texts, this selection, which spans early and later writings and includes a preface...
To The Common Golfer - T. W. H. Crosland
To The Common Golfer - T. W. H. Crosland
- Author: T. W. H. Crosland
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. - Summary by Wikipedia...
Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock - Eliza Fenwick
Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock - Eliza Fenwick
- Author: Eliza Fenwick
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Romance
This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few secrets. Yet secrets cannot remain...
The Frogs - Aristophanes
The Frogs - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Athens is in a sorry state of affairs. The great tragedian, Euripides, is dead, and Dionysus, the god of the theater, has to listen to third-rate poetry. So, he determines to pack his belongings onto his trusty slave, Xanthias, and journey to the...
Visions - Coulson Kernahan
Visions - Coulson Kernahan
- Author: Coulson Kernahan
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
Deeper questions of life and death, and of God’s relationship to man, are explored in this collection of “dreams” by a noted English novelist and literary critic. A man takes an uncertain step into the next world as his life ends – Defendants at the...
The Briefless Barrister - John Godfrey Saxe
The Briefless Barrister - John Godfrey Saxe
- Author: John Godfrey Saxe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Briefless Barrister by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 18th, 2010....
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II - Various
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their...
Technocracy - William Henry Smyth
Technocracy - William Henry Smyth
- Author: William Henry Smyth
- Genre: Political Science
The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical experts such as scientists, technologists, and engineers. William Henry Smyth is often thought to have invented the term in 1919, although it had in fact been used earlier. (Summary...
The Valiant Runaways - Gertrude Atherton
The Valiant Runaways - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Savage bears, a river rescue, capture by Indians, escape on wild mustangs and a revolutionary battle await the protagonists of this suspenseful adventure novel, set in California. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
The Power of the Dog - Rudyard Kipling
The Power of the Dog - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language...
Love is the Best Doctor - Molière
Love is the Best Doctor - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is driven to the streets where he finds a quack and his daughter's disguised lover. Moliere: "This is only a...
Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott
Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember that her heroine Jo wrote racy novels before turning her hand to more "serious" literature. Alcott, writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, often did the same, and Behind a Mask (1866) is one...
Warble for Lilac-Time - Walt Whitman
Warble for Lilac-Time - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Warble for Lilac-Time by Walt Whitman....
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes - Leroy F. Jackson
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes - Leroy F. Jackson
- Author: Leroy F. Jackson
- Genre: Poetry
This is a Nursery Rhyme Book with lots of delightful short, rhyming stories that are meant to be read aloud to small children. They are vintage rhymes, most from the 1800s. Each section has about 5 minutes of rhymes....
Careers of Danger and Daring - Cleveland Moffett
Careers of Danger and Daring - Cleveland Moffett
- Author: Cleveland Moffett
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Technology & Engineering
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of...
The Boarded Up House - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Boarded Up House - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best friends Joyce and Cynthia - along with their dog "Goliath", are determined to find out in this pre-Nancy Drew...
Fables for the Frivolous - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Fables for the Frivolous - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Single author
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before,...
Short Story Collection Vol 083 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol 083 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
And so we present the 83rd installment of the Librivox Short Story Collection! Each tale is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. This compendium includes works by Edith Nesbit, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant and Lord Dunsany, to name but a few....
Short Mystery Story Collection 003 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory...
Fly Leaves - Charles Stuart Calverley
Fly Leaves - Charles Stuart Calverley
- Author: Charles Stuart Calverley
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by the English poet Charles Stuart Calverley. Calverley was considered quite a wit during his life time, and this disposition shines through in some of these poems as well. - Summary by Carolin...
Pitt - Archibald Primrose
Pitt - Archibald Primrose
- Author: Archibald Primrose
- Genre: War & Military
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), the controversial young prime minister who led Great Britain during the terrible trial of the...
The Lesson of the Master - Henry James
The Lesson of the Master - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a gathering in a country house. Anxious to learn all he can from the older writer, the young man seeks his...
Different Girls - Elizabeth Jordan
Different Girls - Elizabeth Jordan
- Author: Elizabeth Jordan
- Genre: Anthologies
This is a collection of the best short stories about girls published in Harper's Magazine from 1895 to 1906. The girls in these stories are not the typical 'girl' from late 19th century novels. They are..different. They are actually [gasp] real...
The Experienced English Housekeeper - Elizabeth Raffald
The Experienced English Housekeeper - Elizabeth Raffald
- Author: Elizabeth Raffald
- Genre: Early Modern / Cooking
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six morels, half a pint of red wine, three quarts of water, bake it in a quick oven three hours...'. English...
The Smalcald Articles - Martin Luther
The Smalcald Articles - Martin Luther
- Author: Martin Luther
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A summary of Lutheran doctrine, written by Martin Luther in 1537 for a meeting of the Schmalkaldic League in preparation for an intended ecumenical Council of the Church. Luther's patron, Elector John Frederick of Saxony, asked him to prepare these...
