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Clayhanger (Version 2) - Arnold Bennett


Clayhanger (Version 2) - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes over the business successfully....
The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont


The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont
- Author: Francis Beaumont
- Genre: Tragedy
Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor is recently married - but not to his troth-plight love...
The Potato's Dance - Vachel Lindsay


The Potato's Dance - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Potato's Dance by Vachel Lindsay. This was the weekly poetry project for March 22nd, 2009....
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare


The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music...
Micah Clarke - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Micah Clarke - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds him, and it is not always quite as...
The Claverings - Anthony Trollope


The Claverings - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as surely conceived as any book he ever...
Anne of the Island (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery


Anne of the Island (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships.Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne's House of Dreams Rainbow...
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. - F. Anstey


Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a diferent background.A series of adventures of a well educated foreigner in London which originally appeared weekly in...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900 - Various


Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900 - 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...
Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day


Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day
- Author: Thomas Fleming Day
- Genre: Poetry
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so well-known today is the fact that...
Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems - Charlotte Turner Smith


Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: Poetry
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. It was in 1784, in debtor's prison...
Bizarre (version 2) - Lawton Mackall


Bizarre (version 2) - Lawton Mackall
- Author: Lawton Mackall
- Genre: Humor
A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam...
The Story-teller - Maud Lindsay


The Story-teller - Maud Lindsay
- Author: Maud Lindsay
- Genre: Short works
Are you a story teller? Almost all of us are, you know. Well, these 12 stories were written by Maud Lindsay to be told by someone who can weave the magic thread of speech into a performance that will hold the children spellbound. And we don't need...
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower - Jessie Graham Flower


Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General Fiction
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John, Jr. Fox


The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John, Jr. Fox
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 1908 and 1909.Set in the Appalachian Mountains...
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov


Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum, overseeing with weary, dubious policies a motley group of patients, a group...
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2) - Margaret Duncan Kelly


The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2) - Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Author: Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the Spanish Armada and makes voyages to the New World in...
The Spook Ballads - William Theodore Parkes


The Spook Ballads - William Theodore Parkes
- Author: William Theodore Parkes
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry. "Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as...
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham


On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll


Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Contemporary / Atheism & Agnosticism
Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his defense of atheism. This book is the first of two volumes collecting Ingersoll's speeches....