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November - John Clare
November - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012 John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of...
The Baby's Songbook - Walter Crane
The Baby's Songbook - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Music
This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's "The Baby's Opera" and "The Baby's Bouquet" containing classic nursery rhymes from England, France, and Germany. The songs are sung by LibriVox's very own Carol Stripling....
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome,...
The Art of Public Speaking - Joseph Berg Esenwein
The Art of Public Speaking - Joseph Berg Esenwein
- Author: Joseph Berg Esenwein
- Genre: Self-Help
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. Esenwein is a manual for people who have to speak in public, and it is still in use today. Whether the occasion in question is sharing travel experiences with friends, a toast for newly-weds,...
Daniel Boone - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Daniel Boone - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person...
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure - Rex Beach
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s. - Summary by David Wales...
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator - John Thomas McIntyre
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator - John Thomas McIntyre
- Author: John Thomas McIntyre
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his chosen field. He smiles when...
Slovenly Betsy - Heinrich Hoffmann
Slovenly Betsy - Heinrich Hoffmann
- Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
- Genre: General / Short works
Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collection of these printed. The stories were not perceived as cruel or overly moral by Hoffmann's contemporaries....
With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest - G. A. Henty
With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishman who boards a merchant ship destined for the...
Mornings at Bow Street - John Wight
Mornings at Bow Street - John Wight
- Author: John Wight
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces of this book are actual reports throughout the 1870s newspaper written by the reporter, John Wight and...
Botchan - Sōseki Natsume
Botchan - Sōseki Natsume
- Author: Sōseki Natsume
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and cheerily comment every one of his...
The Sea Voyage - John Fletcher
The Sea Voyage - John Fletcher
- Author: John Fletcher
- Genre: Comedy
Albert, a handsome French pirate, and his crew get shipwrecked on a barren, rocky island after a severe storm. They encounter another pair of castaways who reveal a quite unusual secret- yet another strange group of people inhabit the island. Albert...
Bible (Fenton) 01-07, 09-10: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: Genesis - Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible
Bible (Fenton) 01-07, 09-10: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: Genesis - Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Author: Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Genre: Bibles
Work on the translation began in 1853 by a London businessman called Ferrar Fenton (1832–1920). The complete Bible was first published in 1903, though parts were published as separate volumes during the preceding 11 years. The translation is noted...
The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China - Jules Verne
The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: General Fiction
The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wang to kill him before a given date. Everything changes when Kin-Fo discovers he is not poor after all and he...
Spirits of the Dead - Edgar Allan Poe
Spirits of the Dead - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allen Poe. This was the weekly poetry project for October 19, 2014....
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Richard III - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeare's earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the bloody career of Richard, Duke of Gloucester. As the play opens, the...
Huntingtower - John Buchan
Huntingtower - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held...
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 1, July 1898 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 1, July 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and articles describing birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published...
The Chronicles of Count Antonio - Anthony Hope
The Chronicles of Count Antonio - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
How it fell out that Count Antonio, a man of high lineage, forsook the service of his Prince, disdained the obligation of his rank, set law at naught, and did what seemed indeed in his own eyes to be good but was held by many to be nothing other...
Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
"Olalla" was a "shilling shocker" written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded soldier, goes to the Spanish countryside to...
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, possibly at Smyrna. The events...
A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie - Joseph Benjamin Polley
A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie - Joseph Benjamin Polley
- Author: Joseph Benjamin Polley
- Genre: Memoirs
Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and experiences, the impressions and feelings, of a soldier whose only personal regret is that he could not be one...
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places - William Caruthers
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places - William Caruthers
- Author: William Caruthers
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (20th C)
William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book collects those stories; the printed version has many interesting pictures. ''Of the actors who made the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 063 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 063 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Authors include Saki, Lord Dunsany, Rudyard Kipling, Rex Beach, Banjo Paterson, Chekhov and Montesquieu....
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855) - Samuel Rogers
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855) - Samuel Rogers
- Author: Samuel Rogers
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinating source material for the social and literary history of Great Britain over the span of his long life. -...
The Revolutions of Time - Jonathan Dunn
The Revolutions of Time - Jonathan Dunn
- Author: Jonathan Dunn
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Canitaurs, who believe that the past is the key to the future, and the Zards, who believe that the past is just the past, are at war and each believes that a redeemer will arrive and propel them to victory. What role Jehu, who has been summoned...
The Belfry Pigeon - Nathaniel Parker Willis
The Belfry Pigeon - Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his...
How to Speak and Write Correctly - Joseph Devlin
How to Speak and Write Correctly - Joseph Devlin
- Author: Joseph Devlin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with style. Joseph Devlin's words may...
Abide in Christ - Andrew Murray
Abide in Christ - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Self-Help / Christianity - Other
Towards the close of his ministry on earth, Jesus taught his disciples of the need for them to abide in Him. This word "abide" speaks of the intimacy of fellowship with the Master to which his followers are still invited. Andrew Murray wrote this...
Dreams and Realities - Rosa Mulholland
Dreams and Realities - Rosa Mulholland
- Author: Rosa Mulholland
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Rosa Muholland. The poetry in this volume is varied, some read like fairy tales, some have a slightly sinister aspect. All poems share the very skillful execution of the verses, and the beauty of the images they evoke....
Child of Storm - H. Rider Haggard
Child of Storm - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Child of Storm is a 1913 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot is set in 1854-56 and concerns Quatermain hunting in Zululand and getting involved with Mameema, a beautiful African girl who causes great turmoil in the Zulu...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III - François-René de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and death of Napoleon, and is replete with the author's trenchant views on the some of the most significant...
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is...
The Trail of the Tramp - Leon Ray Livingston
The Trail of the Tramp - Leon Ray Livingston
- Author: Leon Ray Livingston
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first chapter of the book sets up a framing narrative, where Canada Joe promises to tell a story which is not "the...
Karawane - Hugo Ball
Karawane - Hugo Ball
- Author: Hugo Ball
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Karawane by Hugo Ball. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 5th, 2010. Ball wrote his poem "Karawane," which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in...
When Shadows Die - E.D.E.N. Southworth
When Shadows Die - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Family / General
A sequel to "Her Mothers Secret" and "Love's Bitterest Cup" (Bridget Gaige)...
Adrift on an Ice-Pan - Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Adrift on an Ice-Pan - Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- Author: Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- Genre: Memoirs
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)...
Threads of Grey and Gold - Myrtle Reed
Threads of Grey and Gold - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic, sometimes melancholy atmosphere so characteristic of Myrtle Reed's stories. - Summary by Carolin...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets...
