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Bee Hunting - John Ready Lockard
Bee Hunting - John Ready Lockard
- Author: John Ready Lockard
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
Many books on sports of various kinds have been written, but outside of an occasional article in periodicals devoted to bee literature, but little has been written on the subject of bee hunting. Therefore, I have tried, in this volume, Bee Hunting...
Anne of Green Gables (version 3) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables (version 3) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination and sensitive spirit, has enchanted readers for generations. (Summary by Karen Savage)Other books in this...
The Gold Sickle - Eugène Sue
The Gold Sickle - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, in which he intended to produce a comprehensive...
The Conqueror Worm - Edgar Allan Poe
The Conqueror Worm - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States...
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop - Fergus Hume
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Short Stories
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the...
In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant - Oliver Optic
In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Religion
The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, "in school and out." We are sorry to say that Richard had become a bad boy, and was in the habit of getting into the most abominable scrapes, some of which are...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caustic and pointed, they all are well worth listening to. The Happy Prince is a beautiful tale about a statue of a...
The Tale of Grandfather Mole - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Grandfather Mole - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books.Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: "Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural...
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy - John Stuart Mill
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free market capitalism, to government...
A House Of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde
A House Of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Bible (KJV) 05: Deuteronomy - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 05: Deuteronomy - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah/Pentateuch. The Hebrew title, "[spoken] words", is taken from the opening phrase, "These are the words..."; the English title is from the Greek and Latin, both meaning...
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life - William Law
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life - William Law
- Author: William Law
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Self-Help
This is one of the greatest devotional books of the Christian faith, inspiring thousands to a closer walk with their Lord. John Wesley was a close associate of Mr. Law and was influenced by this very book to some of his great work in England, and...
Invisible Links - Selma Lagerlöf
Invisible Links - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Short Stories
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. Invisible Links (Osynliga länkar) is a collection of...
The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast - Francis Robert Goulding
The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast - Francis Robert Goulding
- Author: Francis Robert Goulding
- Genre: Action & Adventure
When Robert, Harold, Mary and Frank are cast ashore on a deserted island, they must learn to live off the land in order to survive. With dangerous wildcats, friendly bear cubs, sunken pirate treasure and more, life on the island is never dull - but...
Wildfire - Zane Grey
Wildfire - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
The heart of a stallion; the heart of a man; the heart of a woman. Three valiant, authentic, and determined souls cross each others' paths, and the sparks fly. We'll leave it to you to find out what kind of sparks. (Summary by Tony Oliva)...
Old-Time Makers of Medicine - James Joseph Walsh
Old-Time Makers of Medicine - James Joseph Walsh
- Author: James Joseph Walsh
- Genre: History / Medical
Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of America. Throughout this historical guide, Dr. Walsh shows numerous examples of practices thought to be...
Miss Cayley's Adventures - Grant Allen
Miss Cayley's Adventures - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Fun stories of Miss Lois Cayley, independent young woman, as she, beginning with only twopence in her pocket, travels the world. (Summary by kristin) Miss Lois Cayley, a smart, strong and independent woman, is traveling around the world. However,...
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom - Lucy Ann Delaney
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom - Lucy Ann Delaney
- Author: Lucy Ann Delaney
- Genre: Memoirs
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a freeborn black woman who had been kidnapped and sold on the blocks--but escaped while a teenager and eventually...
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it all. In the course of recounting my...
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads - Tickner Edwardes
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads - Tickner Edwardes
- Author: Tickner Edwardes
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear of the main roads, and, with two...
Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany. This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd...
The Complete Works of George Savile, first Marquess of Halifax, with an Introduction by Walter Alexander Raleigh - George Savile Marquis of Halifax
The Complete Works of George Savile, first Marquess of Halifax, with an Introduction by Walter Alexander Raleigh - George Savile Marquis of Halifax
- Author: George Savile Marquis of Halifax
- Genre: Memoirs
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668. He's noted in...
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a book about growing up and...
The Holy War - John Bunyan
The Holy War - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Religious Fiction
The Holy War is perhaps John Bunyan's second most popular work, after The Pilgrim's Progress. It tells the story of a fierce battle to take control of a city from its rightful ruler. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 09. September 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 09. September 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number. It includes the following articles: Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement, by G. K. Gilbert The Toronto Meeting of the British Association for the...
A Bayard from Bengal - F. Anstey
A Bayard from Bengal - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manners, which immediately mark him as a foreigner, and embarks on an enviable program of escapades. These stories...
Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales - Eulalie Osgood Grover
Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales - Eulalie Osgood Grover
- Author: Eulalie Osgood Grover
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
This book consists of fifty-two very short fictitious stories about cats and kittens, which have been written for children. Many of the stories have been written by cats and address the queen, many of them are commentaries on well known nursery...
Spacehounds of IPC - E. E. Smith
Spacehounds of IPC - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions...
Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most interesting novels. Pregnant and...
The Romance of Modern Chemistry - James C. Philip
The Romance of Modern Chemistry - James C. Philip
- Author: James C. Philip
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Chemistry
A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of chemistry at The Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kensington, provides a "description in...
The Fire People - Ray Cummings
The Fire People - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Science Fiction
In effect Professor Newland declared that the curious astronomical phenomena of the previous November--the new "stars" observed, the two meteors that had fallen with their red and green light-fire--were all evidence of the existence of intelligent...
The Lust of Hate - Guy Boothby
The Lust of Hate - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the third Dr Nikola book in a series of five written by Guy Boothby. The main character is Gilbert Pennethorne a man whom "Lady luck" has deserted. A number of commercial failures, estrangement from his family, Unsuccessful gold prospecting...
Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot
Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot
- Author: Hector Malot
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of rich parents who will reclaim him soon and offer a reward to Barberin for taking care of him. He therefore...
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural...
Out of Time's Abyss - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time's Abyss - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Out of Time's Abyss is a science fiction novel, the third of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. In this conclusion, the mysteries of the lost world's unique biological system are revealed. (Adapted from Wikipedia) Link to The Land that Time...
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 9 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 9 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Book 9 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 12:49 - 14:20. - Summary by The Reader...
That Sweet Little Old Lady - Randall Garrett
That Sweet Little Old Lady - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
Randall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and gift for the bizarre situation with believable characters shines here. In the not too distant future, Ken...
I, Mary MacLane - Mary MacLane
I, Mary MacLane - Mary MacLane
- Author: Mary MacLane
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a young child, and at the age of 8, her stepfather moved the family from its home in Winnipeg, Canada to Montana in the...
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Family Life / Family
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Katy can't do anything right. Her Aunt Izzie always scolds her, so one day Katy decides to ignore her aunt's...
