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John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John...
In Our Convent Days - Agnes Repplier
In Our Convent Days - Agnes Repplier
- Author: Agnes Repplier
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She shares the highlights (and some of the low lights) of her time there. Perhaps this sharp eye,...
The Tale of Grunty Pig - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Grunty Pig - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Grunty Pig is one of 16 stories of his Slumber Town Tales series. - Summary by...
Alice; or The Wages of Sin - Frederic Werden Pangborn
Alice; or The Wages of Sin - Frederic Werden Pangborn
- Author: Frederic Werden Pangborn
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm tints, any cheering or amusing passages, the author will be glad to know that they have brightened a moment...
War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes:...
The Freedmen's Book - Lydia Maria Child
The Freedmen's Book - Lydia Maria Child
- Author: Lydia Maria Child
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / History
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an inspiration to freed slaves. In her dedication to the freedmen, she urges those who can read, to read these...
The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting - D. B. Casteel
The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting - D. B. Casteel
- Author: D. B. Casteel
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
The value of the honey bee in cross pollinating the flowers of fruit trees makes it desirable that exact information be available concerning the actions of the bee when gathering and manipulating the pollen. The results recorded in this manuscript...
A Christmas Miscellany 2019 - Various
A Christmas Miscellany 2019 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Nine stories about Christmas or around Christmastime. - Summary by david wales...
Badge of Infamy - Lester del Rey
Badge of Infamy - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Science Fiction
Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he's a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things are more loose on Mars. There, Doc Feldman is...
On Union with God - Blessed Albert the Great
On Union with God - Blessed Albert the Great
- Author: Blessed Albert the Great
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Christianity - Other
Surely the most deeply-rooted need of the human soul, its purest aspiration, is for the closest possible union with God. As one turns over the pages of this little work, written by Blessed Albert the Great towards the end of his life, when that...
Jill the Reckless - P. G. Wodehouse
Jill the Reckless - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be beaten and turns to face the world....
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age - Alice Meynell
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for July 12th, 2009, and was recorded to celebrate the 21st birthday of Lucy Perry, who co-ordinated this...
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2 - Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2 - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts...
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth - Carolyn Wells
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to investigate. He finds no sign...
The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: General Fiction
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many...
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Modern
This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Rousseau claims other political philosophers had failed to grasp. Specifically, before the onset of...
The Beautiful Lady - Booth Tarkington
The Beautiful Lady - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini has taken radical steps to support himself. Shaving off his hair, he uses his bald head as advertising space...
Time Crime - H. Beam Piper
Time Crime - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing one man in a population of millions is easy--compared to finding one gang hiding out on one of billions of probability lines! (Summary by Gutenberg text)...
The Moneychangers - Upton Sinclair
The Moneychangers - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction
A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague witnesses the manipulation and upset of the stock market by high financier Dan Waterman who is motivated by...
A Woman's War - Warwick Deeping
A Woman's War - Warwick Deeping
- Author: Warwick Deeping
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the "good" Dr. James Murchison and Betty and the "bad" Dr. Parker Steele. But, of course, no one is all good or...
A Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems - Madison Cawein
A Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Madison Julius Cawein, "the Keats of Kentucky", published at the height of his popularity in 1902. - Summary by Carolin...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric rule of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Vaninka is a general’s daughter whose love for one of her father’s...
The New Swiss Family Robinson - Owen Wister
The New Swiss Family Robinson - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)...
The Stretton Street Affair - William Le Queux
The Stretton Street Affair - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Hugh Gabriel has recently been repatriated from the war and has rejoined his old firm as an electrical engineer. On the way to visit his uncle one night, he is asked by a servant if he would be willing to meet with his wealthy master who is in some...
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias) - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias) - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
The book tells the alleged story of a righteous Israelite of the Tribe of Naphtali named Tobit living in Nineveh after the deportation of the northern tribes of Israel to Assyria in 721 BC under Sargon II. (Summary by Wikipedia, modified by Sam...
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing chronicles two pairs of...
Operation Interstellar - George O. Smith
Operation Interstellar - George O. Smith
- Author: George O. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
Haedaecker’s Theory claims that real-time communications across space is impossible. Paul Grayson believes that Z-wave technology will make real time communication possible. Paul sets out to prove his theory but there are those who don’t want him to...
Modeste Mignon - Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary Ernest de la Brière to "deal...
Three Minute Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
Three Minute Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Short works
This is a delightful collection of little stories for little people, just right to be listened to at bed time by a sleepy boy or girl. Some have a moral, some are just fun and some are poems; but all of them are either written or adapted by the well...
Knots Untied - J. C. Ryle
Knots Untied - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Being Plain Statements on Disputed Points in Religion, from the Standpoint of an Evangelical Churchman. The volume now in the reader's hands requires a few words of explanation. It contains nineteen papers on subjects which are matters of dispute...
Short stories (Early works 1837-1852) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Short stories (Early works 1837-1852) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her short works for Charles Dickens's Household Words magazine between 1850 and 1858. Her earlier works were...
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Beatrix Potter
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Beatrix Potter
- Author: Beatrix Potter
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Short works
Beatrix Potter's delightful stories come to life in this Librivox recording of some of her most famous tales. This collection is extra special because it was read by children for children. Come along as we experience the well-loved stories of Peter...
French History for English Children - Caroline Emelia Stephen
French History for English Children - Caroline Emelia Stephen
- Author: Caroline Emelia Stephen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children. (Summary by Guero)...
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volumes 1-3 - Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volumes 1-3 - Isaac Asimov
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Genre: Science
This is a short booklet on science fact commissioned by the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Office of Public Affairs). It tells the story of the origins of nuclear physics in terms understandable to an audience with minimal...
A Legend of Montrose - Sir Walter Scott
A Legend of Montrose - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Legend of Montrose is one of Sir Walter Scott's Tales of my Landlord. It is set in the tumultuous 17th century during the Earl of Montrose's military campaign in Scotland. Allan M'Aulay and his friend Lord Menteith both serve in Montrose's army,...
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - Sarah Emma Edmonds
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - Sarah Emma Edmonds
- Author: Sarah Emma Edmonds
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on the field and participated in numerous battles—among which are the first and second Bull Run, Williamsburg,...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V - Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V - Edward Gibbon
- Author: Edward Gibbon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after...
A Double Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
A Double Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner,...
In November - Archibald Lampman
In November - Archibald Lampman
- Author: Archibald Lampman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the...
