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Fidele - William Shakespeare
Fidele - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Fidele by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 18th, 2010....
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus - Xenophon
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The title Cyropaedia derives from Greek, meaning...
Short Poetry Collection 032 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 032 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 032: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Havoc - E. Phillips Oppenheim
Havoc - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between Germany, Russia, and Austria. The English hope to split Russia away by holding the Czar to his previous public...
The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purchase a hand gun he had seen in a pawnshop window. The morning comes with one of those 'memorable...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Published 1800 -1900
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as "A Square", to deride the Victorian aristocracy and its hierarchies. But the book...
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations - Thomas Hardy
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of "In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations" by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2013. Written during the First World War, this is a poem about love, war and their timelessness by...
Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country - DuBose Heyward
Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country - DuBose Heyward
- Author: DuBose Heyward
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony...
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But...
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War - Gaius
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War - Gaius
- Author: Gaius
- Genre: Antiquity
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". Nearly contemporary to the events he describes, he is supposed to have been a retired officer of Caesar's army....
Escape From The Confederacy - Benjamin F. Hasson
Escape From The Confederacy - Benjamin F. Hasson
- Author: Benjamin F. Hasson
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short book points up Hasson’s ingenuity...
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these anecdotes will entertain as well as...
The World That Couldn't Be - Clifford D. Simak
The World That Couldn't Be - Clifford D. Simak
- Author: Clifford D. Simak
- Genre: Science Fiction
Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without families? But Gavin Duncan didn’t care. He had come to Layard to farm vua plants. Their berries cured...
By Pike and Dyke - G. A. Henty
By Pike and Dyke - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical
It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish tyranny, efforts at rebellion are failing, and allies are nowhere to be found. Edward “Ned” Martin, son of...
Principles of Geology - Charles Lyell
Principles of Geology - Charles Lyell
- Author: Charles Lyell
- Genre: Earth Sciences
Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell, first published in 3 volumes in 1830–1833. Lyell used geology...
Short Science Fiction Collection 038 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 038 - 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...
Pearl (Coulton translation) - The Gawain Poet
Pearl (Coulton translation) - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Poetry
A companion piece to From Jerusalem to Revelations in the Librivox catalogue (https://librivox.org/jerusalem-to-revelations-a-quartet-of-spiritual-explorations-by-unknown/). Pearl, believed to have been written by the author of the Pagano-Christian...
Bible (ASV) 15: Ezra - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 15: Ezra - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The history of the first return of exiles, in the first year of Cyrus the Great (536 B.C.), till the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem, in the sixth year of Darius (515 B.C.). The history of the second return under Ezra, in...
The Moon - James Russell Lowell
The Moon - James Russell Lowell
- Author: James Russell Lowell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Moon by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009....
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: Volume 1 - Rev. James MacCaffrey
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: Volume 1 - Rev. James MacCaffrey
- Author: Rev. James MacCaffrey
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
This first volume of a two volume set traces the trials and triumphs of the Catholic Church during the period before the reformation up to the 19th century. The origins, causes and developments of the various protestant sects that were the fruit of...
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3) - A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3) - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Single author
Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being young mens' early deaths. This...
Measure for Measure (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Drama
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called "problem plays," it mixes a dark plot with light overtones, without resolving the tensions inherent in either. Its central conflict is spurred on when...
A Woman's Love Letters - Sophia Margaretta Hensley
A Woman's Love Letters - Sophia Margaretta Hensley
- Author: Sophia Margaretta Hensley
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of love poems by Canadian poet Sophia Margaretta Hensley, also known as Sophie M. Almon-Hensley. The poems are written from the perspective of a woman, and cover besides love also all the emotions neighboring that passion. - Summary...
The Book of Household Management - Mrs. Isabella Beeton
The Book of Household Management - Mrs. Isabella Beeton
- Author: Mrs. Isabella Beeton
- Genre: Animals / Cooking
"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate bestseller, running to millions of copies within just a few years. In the cookery sections, Mrs. Beeton follows the animal...
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
- Author: Robert Henry Newell
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. They were published regularly in the New York Mercury Sunday newspaper for the four years of the war. In the letters,...
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ - Unknown
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Epics
This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translation.The Sanskrit original is written in the Anushtubh metre. It has been cast into flexible blank verse by Sir...
Short Poetry Collection 164 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 164 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017....
The Sayings of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
The Sayings of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: Ancient
Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples comprise the crux of Confucianism. (Summary by Andrea L). A Chinese version is...
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he becomes...
A Second Rubaiyat Miscellany
A Second Rubaiyat Miscellany
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses.Interest in the poetry of Omar Khayyam received its first major boost in...
One Commonplace Day - Pansy
One Commonplace Day - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the discussions, actions, and attitudes from that picnic reverberate through the lives of many people. What are the...
Good Hours - Robert Frost
Good Hours - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 41 different recordings of Good Hours by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 9th, 2007....
Bible (KJV) 12: 2 Kings - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 12: 2 Kings - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The history of the kings of Judah and Israel until their downfall. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
Some Winter Days in Iowa - Frederick Lazell
Some Winter Days in Iowa - Frederick Lazell
- Author: Frederick Lazell
- Genre: Animals
Accented with snatches of verse and a mix of scientific and Christian insight, University of Iowa professor Lazell takes us on vivid nature walks through the rural areas of the Plains state. - Summary by Matt Pierard...
The Modern Scottish Minstrel - Charles Rogers
The Modern Scottish Minstrel - Charles Rogers
- Author: Charles Rogers
- Genre: Poetry / Music
Subtitled "Songs of Scotland of the Past Half-Century, with Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards." (Summary by Chairlie)...
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly...
Birds and Nature, Vol. X, No 1, June 1901 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. X, No 1, June 1901 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and 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 published...
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature / Short works
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's...
Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant - Richard Barnum
Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Tum Tum is such a good-natured elephant, even through all his adventures. He is always so helpful, whether in his jungle home or in the circus, Tum Tum could be counted on to help everyone. That helpfulness got Tum Tum caught in the trap, but he...
A Cabinet Secret - Guy Boothby
A Cabinet Secret - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
