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The Kind Moon - Sara Teasdale
The Kind Moon - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ever wonder how the moon seems to follow you around through the sky? Sara Teasdale gives her version of this observation in this poem taken from her collection 'Helen of Troy, and Other Poems'. (David Lawrence)...
The Fiddler of Dooney - William Butler Yeats
The Fiddler of Dooney - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 4th 2011 William Butler Yeats was a notable Irish poet and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for...
The Victorious Attitude - Orison Swett Marden
The Victorious Attitude - Orison Swett Marden
- Author: Orison Swett Marden
- Genre: Self-Help
Dr. Marden tells how we can live up to our potential just by changing our attitude, from the normal attitude of I CAN'T to one of I CAN! To do this we need to have faith in ourselves and shut out the negative forces that come into our lives. We have...
The Glories of Mary - Saint Alphonsus Liguori
The Glories of Mary - Saint Alphonsus Liguori
- Author: Saint Alphonsus Liguori
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Glories of Mary is a classic book in the field of Roman Catholic Mariology, written during the 18th century by Saint Alphonsus Liguori, a Doctor of the Church.The book was written at a time when some Jansenists (which were declared heretical by...
Sandman's Goodnight Stories - Abbie Phillips Walker
Sandman's Goodnight Stories - Abbie Phillips Walker
- Author: Abbie Phillips Walker
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Have you every read a bed time story to a child? Or had one read to you? Fun, isn't it? These 28 delightful, short, well written and whimsical stores by the famous storyteller Abby Phillips just beg to be read aloud by adults or children. With...
20 Short Science Fiction Stories - Various
20 Short Science Fiction Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Compilation of 20 Science Fiction Short Stories - Summary by Kirk Ziegler...
Songs Ysame - Annie Fellows Johnston
Songs Ysame - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry written by the sisters Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie Fellows Johnston. Both of the sisters reached quite a level of fame in their own right, Ms Bacon primarily as a social reformer and Ms Johnston as an author of...
Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: General Fiction
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and...
One day is there of the series - Emily Dickinson
One day is there of the series - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of One day is there of the series by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 25th, 2007....
O Hollow Hollow Hollow - W. S. Gilbert
O Hollow Hollow Hollow - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012. Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who...
The Poet and The Baby - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Poet and The Baby - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They had felt, as I felt, that however gifted his race had proven itself in music, in oratory, in several of the...
The Sexes in Science and History - Eliza Burt Gamble
The Sexes in Science and History - Eliza Burt Gamble
- Author: Eliza Burt Gamble
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man", Eliza Burt Gamble uses Darwin's theory of evolution and other scientific information to compare...
The Prophet (version 2) - Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet (version 2) - Kahlil Gibran
- Author: Kahlil Gibran
- Genre: Single author
The Prophet is an inspirational book of 28 lyrical prose essays on life, love, children, religion, work, and more, - written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A....
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. This volume contains some of his observations about that trip, including his impressions of the English...
Life and Lillian Gish - Albert Bigelow Paine
Life and Lillian Gish - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her sister Dorothy, her rise in film as...
Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the...
Paul and Virginia - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Paul and Virginia - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Author: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Genre: General Fiction
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule,...
Short Story Collection Vol. 030 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 030 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 030: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale - Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale - Charles Brockden Brown
- Author: Charles Brockden Brown
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they meet the mysterious Carwin. Set in the period before the Revolutionary War, this is often described as the first American Gothic novel. - Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek...
Warlord of Kor - Terry Carr
Warlord of Kor - Terry Carr
- Author: Terry Carr
- Genre: Science Fiction
Terry Carr never really shone as a writer, though he did write some remarkably thoughtful stories. However, his talents as an editor and anthologist were important and undeniable, and he brought many good writers and authors into sf and fantasy. His...
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes - William Alexander Gerhardi
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes - William Alexander Gerhardi
- Author: William Alexander Gerhardi
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the...
Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah - Laurence Hope
Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope.She was born in England and joined her father in 1881, who was employed in the British Army at Lahore (The traditional capital of Punjab for a millennium, Lahore...
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General
She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful château, and she had been born heiress to a great fortune, but, nevertheless, just now she felt as if she was very poor, indeed. And yet her home was in one...
The Italian Cook Book - Maria Gentile
The Italian Cook Book - Maria Gentile
- Author: Maria Gentile
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reasons of economy, more attention has been bestowed upon the preparing and cooking of food that is to be at once...
Astounding Stories 11, November 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 11, November 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
This science-fiction mag includes "The Wall of Death" by Victor Rousseau, "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, "The Destroyer" by William Merriam Rouse, "The Gray Plague" by L. A. Eshbach, "Jetta of the Lowlands" by Ray Cummings, and "Vagabonds...
Labor and Freedom - Eugene V. Debs
Labor and Freedom - Eugene V. Debs
- Author: Eugene V. Debs
- Genre: Political Science
"While there is a lower class I am in it; While there is a criminal class I am of it; While there is a soul in prison I am not free." ( Eugene V. Debs)This collection of essays charts the thought and character of Eugene V. Debs. Debs was an...
Remembrance - Emily Brontë
Remembrance - Emily Brontë
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Remembrance by Emily Brontë. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 14th, 2009....
The Learned Women - Molière
The Learned Women - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Satire
Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's family. Her sensible father and uncle are in favour of the marriage; but unfortunately her father is under the...
The Ambulance Made Two Trips - Murray Leinster
The Ambulance Made Two Trips - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teeth in frustration. The gangsters seem to have everything going their way until the day that a little dry...
Poems of Power - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Power - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume in a series of books of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the theme is "Power". - Summary by Carolin...
The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the intelligent Rooster. An interesting Story in Verse for Children - Unknown
The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the intelligent Rooster. An interesting Story in Verse for Children - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Poetry
This is, as the title already describes, the rhymed story of Chanticleer the Rooster, and his adventures. Follow the bird through his youth and school years, on a journey, through adventures, becoming a father and a family man and eventually a...
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865 - Susan R. Jervey
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865 - Susan R. Jervey
- Author: Susan R. Jervey
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan....
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry) is considered a sequel to "Rudin". It is the story of the protagonist Fyodor Ivanych...
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day - Haji A. Browne
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day - Haji A. Browne
- Author: Haji A. Browne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend him. His faults and his failings are to be found at large in almost any of the scores of books that have of...
A Channel Passage - Rupert Brooke
A Channel Passage - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for August 30th, 2009....
Introduction to the Devout Life - Saint Francis de Sales
Introduction to the Devout Life - Saint Francis de Sales
- Author: Saint Francis de Sales
- Genre: Christianity - Other
First published in the early 17th century, it has proven its value as a daily spiritual guide and helpful reference for living an authentic Christian life. Written specifically for laymen, it began as letters from Saint Francis to a married woman...
A Brief Account of the Bahai Movement - Ethel J. Rosenberg
A Brief Account of the Bahai Movement - Ethel J. Rosenberg
- Author: Ethel J. Rosenberg
- Genre: Other religions
“Many believe that we, in this century,” writes Ethel Rosenberg, “ are witnessing the dawn of a new spiritual epoch or era. A renewal of the Spirit is making itself felt in the Churches and in the religious and social life of all lands. This is in...
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 2, The Place of Impulse In Conduct - John Dewey
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 2, The Place of Impulse In Conduct - John Dewey
- Author: John Dewey
- Genre: Psychology
Part 2 describes Dewey's concept of IMPULSES. They encompass the interaction of one's self with the environment. When the environment encounters problems with one's HABITS, Impulses are the motivating, innate forces which prompt one to modify habits...
R. Holmes and Co. - John Kendrick Bangs
R. Holmes and Co. - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This apparently contradictory family...
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour - Robert Smith Surtees
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour - Robert Smith Surtees
- Author: Robert Smith Surtees
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick Papers of Dickens, whose style...
