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Bobs, a Girl Detective - Grace May North
Bobs, a Girl Detective - Grace May North
- Author: Grace May North
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Action & Adventure
This is a great short chapter mystery book for girls. It is similar to Nancy Drew. Bobs is one of the four sisters whose parents die, leaving them with the responsibility of caring for themselves. They have to work together to be cheerful through...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 05. May 1896 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 05. May 1896 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles: Africa Since 1888, by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, LL. D. Fundamental Geographic Relation of the Three Americas, by Robert T. Hill The Kansas...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Romance
This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden and experiences independence before she decides to marry again. The novel has marital advice told via quips...
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 8, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States in 1933 by A.L. Burt and Co., New York....
Trelawny of the Wells - Arthur Wing Pinero
Trelawny of the Wells - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays
A theater, various actors and actresses, their admirers, financial backers, etc. The star Rose Trelawny wants to leave the stage for love, but it is not an easy thing to fit into conventional society after a life onstage. And not easy to go back to...
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor in Yorkshire. Initially a sour, bad-tempered child, Mary begins to bloom under the influence of nature when...
Short Science Fiction Collection 021 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 021 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
Private Sex Advice to Women - R. B. Armitage
Private Sex Advice to Women - R. B. Armitage
- Author: R. B. Armitage
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Health & Fitness
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important facts of knowledge, certain necessary information, which all such women should possess, but which few are given...
Short Poetry Collection 098 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 098 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2011....
The Children's Bible - Henry A. SHERMAN
The Children's Bible - Henry A. SHERMAN
- Author: Henry A. SHERMAN
- Genre: Religion
This is a Book of Children's Bible Stories. (Summary by Kenneth Coon)...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
Doctor John Dolittle is an animal doctor and famous naturalist whose success hinges on his ability to speak the languages of many different kinds of animals. This book, the second Dr. Dolittle adventure, is narrated by Tommy Stubbins, who meets the...
In New England Fields and Woods - Rowland E. Robinson
In New England Fields and Woods - Rowland E. Robinson
- Author: Rowland E. Robinson
- Genre: Animals / Essays & Short Works / Nature
Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A talented artist, he drew cartoons in New York City for the “funny papers" before returning to Vermont, where...
Christmas Carol - Sara Teasdale
Christmas Carol - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale. This was the Christmas Weekly Poetry project for December 23, 2018. ------ This Christmas Poem is taken from Helen of Troy, and Other Poems by Sara Teasdale. - Summary...
The White Moll - Frank L. Packard
The White Moll - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with bridging the gap from the “cozy” style mysteries to the more gritty, hard-boiled style of such writers as...
Anne of Green Gables (Version 8) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables (Version 8) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General
In the first book of this classic series, Anne Shirley is an 11 year-old orphan girl who has never had a true home. Through an adoption mistake, Anne comes to live in the small-town of Avonlea where she makes new friends and spreads her joy for all...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 024 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 024 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Historical Fiction / Epics
Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by...
Flemington - Violet Jacob
Flemington - Violet Jacob
- Author: Violet Jacob
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good war novel: spies, betrayals, politics, and even a love story (but not quite what you expect). This is a smart...
The Crystal Stopper - Maurice Leblanc
The Crystal Stopper - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction
During a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq a crime is committed, and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police. One is guilty of the crime, the other innocent, but both will be sentenced to death. Lupin seeks to deliver the...
Youth's Spring-Tribute - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Youth's Spring-Tribute - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Youth's Spring-Tribute by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry Poetry project for April 15, 2012. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. His early...
The Hungry Stones And Other Stories - Rabindranath Tagore
The Hungry Stones And Other Stories - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short stories written by the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The seven stories which follow were...
Schoolboys in Winter - John Clare
Schoolboys in Winter - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: School
Librivox volunteers bring you 7 readings of Schoolboys in Winter, by John Clare. This was the weekly poem for the week of January 4, 2015. - Summary by Rachel...
Seven Autumn Leaves From Fairyland - E. Cunningham
Seven Autumn Leaves From Fairyland - E. Cunningham
- Author: E. Cunningham
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Seven original fairy tales . . . "Now for the stories you promised us." "Well, how many shall there be?" "O, seven, one for each." And here are our seven stories; affectionately dedicated to any little curly heads that like to read them. (Preface)...
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Nature / Modern (19th C)
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Stories of the Cave People - Mary Marcy
Stories of the Cave People - Mary Marcy
- Author: Mary Marcy
- Genre: Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
"In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has risen from a stage of lowest savagery, little higher than the apes, buffeted by the hand of Nature, dependent upon the...
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 3, Cambrai - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 3, Cambrai - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Author: John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Genre: War & Military
This is Part Three of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of stalemate...
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
- Author: Ingersoll Lockwood
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity of both two- and four legged...
Prejudices, First Series - H. L. Mencken
Prejudices, First Series - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen, Arnold Bennett, William Dean...
The Black Riders and Other Lines - Stephen Crane
The Black Riders and Other Lines - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: Free Verse
A collection of enigmatic poems...
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War - Herman Melville
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Single author / War & Military
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print news sources (especially the Rebellion Record) and...
Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a sidestreet already doomed to...
Dear Brutus (dramatic reading) - J. M. Barrie
Dear Brutus (dramatic reading) - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
At a house in the country 8 guests are invited to enter a magical wood to see what might have happened had they made a different choice in life. Even though they are warned away from the wood, they take a chance and enter. The title comes from...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 2 - Friedrich Schiller
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 2 - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Early Modern
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the...
The Treasury of David, Vol. 6 (Abridged) - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Treasury of David, Vol. 6 (Abridged) - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000...
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals - Immanuel Kant
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: Early Modern
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 02. February 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 02. February 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Crater Lake, Oregon, by J. S. Diller The Utilization of the Vacant Public Lands, by Emory F. Best The Mazamas, by J. S. Diller...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 16) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 16) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 3 chapter 16 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail....
The Clock Strikes Thirteen - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Clock Strikes Thirteen - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised...
