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Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision...
A Raw Youth - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Raw Youth - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction
Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfil his dream, he meets people who teach him many kinds of ideologies. Thus, the work reflects Russian society....
The Markets of Paris - Émile Zola
The Markets of Paris - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: General Fiction
The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L’Assommoir. It must have been in his early manhood,...
An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll - I. Newton Baker
An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll - I. Newton Baker
- Author: I. Newton Baker
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the Ingersoll family. Later expanded and published by the family so the world could learn more about the public...
Bible (KJV) NT 07: 1 Corinthians - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 07: 1 Corinthians - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, often referred to as First Corinthians (and written as 1 Corinthians), is the seventh book of the New Testament of the Bible. Paul of Tarsus composed this letter in Greek, to the Christians of Corinth,...
James Joyce in Context, Vol. 1: Telemachus - Various
James Joyce in Context, Vol. 1: Telemachus - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Collections
This is a project invented and created by LibriVox volunteers. It collects various works which James Joyce quotes and refers to in his epic novel Ulysses, and provides them in audio form. Perfect for Joyce scholars, fans, and aficionados! (Summary...
The Story of a Plush Bear - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Plush Bear - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Family
Tenth in a series of 12 Make Believe Stories, this charming tale of a Christmas toy bear and its adventures is an old fashioned delight. - Summary by Nan Dodge...
Some Famous Women - Louise Creighton
Some Famous Women - Louise Creighton
- Author: Louise Creighton
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Medical
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother of seven children. In this short book, Creighton gives us chapters on such well-known women as Joan of Arc,...
The Ego Machine - Henry Kuttner
The Ego Machine - Henry Kuttner
- Author: Henry Kuttner
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and...
Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward
Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: General Fiction
Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward) was a very popular author at the end of the 19th century. The arrival of Marcella was discussed a lot in the London news papers. This popular novel tells about Marcella Boyce, a beauty of the 1880s, who thinks...
Songs Without Words - Robert Jones Burdette
Songs Without Words - Robert Jones Burdette
- Author: Robert Jones Burdette
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Songs Without Words by Robert J. Burdette. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2013. Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in...
The Hunters of the Hills - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Hunters of the Hills - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure
"The Hunters of the Hills" is the first volume of a series dealing with the great struggle of France and England and their colonies for dominion in North America, culminating with the fall of Quebec. It is also concerned to a large extent with the...
The Time Machine (Version 4) - H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (Version 4) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations....
Four Weeks in the Trenches - Fritz Kreisler
Four Weeks in the Trenches - Fritz Kreisler
- Author: Fritz Kreisler
- Genre: War & Military
A brief record of the fighting on the Eastern front in the great war by a participant in that great conflict(Summary by FNH)...
Astounding Stories 07, July 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 07, July 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine - Summary by Annise...
James Watt - Andrew Carnegie
James Watt - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This biography of the inventor James Watt covers his early years, successes and failures, and legacy. (Summary by Bill Boerst)...
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago - Hannah Trager
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago - Hannah Trager
- Author: Hannah Trager
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish family in Jerusalem around 1876. In each chapter, Mr. Jacobs reads a letter from his cousins living in Jerusalem...
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé - Harry Houdini
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé - Harry Houdini
- Author: Harry Houdini
- Genre: Performing Arts
"A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc.", [by Harry Houdini, from the subtitle]....
Brain Twister - Laurence M. Janifer
Brain Twister - Laurence M. Janifer
- Author: Laurence M. Janifer
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a science-fiction convention. Both men were...
Rezanov - Gertrude Atherton
Rezanov - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. "Not twenty pages have you turned before you...
The Shadow of a Man - E. W. Hornung
The Shadow of a Man - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Set in rural Australia, this mystery novel follows a pair of newlyweds who are determined to make their improbable marriage work, no matter the odds. But little do they know exactly how high the odds are stacked against them -- and the lengths that...
The Outline of Science, Vol 3 - J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science, Vol 3 - J. Arthur Thomson
- Author: J. Arthur Thomson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and easily understood prose, this...
Long Poems Collection 008 - Various
Long Poems Collection 008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length....
Project Mastodon - Clifford D. Simak
Project Mastodon - Clifford D. Simak
- Author: Clifford D. Simak
- Genre: Science Fiction
Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own, without any help from government or industry? On a shoestring,so to speak? Would anyone believe them? What...
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2) - George MacDonald
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Romance / Fantasy Fiction
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just with evil, strife, and terror but also with loss, failure, sacrifice, and death—or the ending will not be...
Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive - Samuel Smiles
Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive - Samuel Smiles
- Author: Samuel Smiles
- Genre: Self-Help
Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. He wrote popular articles and books on his theories; ways people could help themselves overcome their...
Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor - James Whitcomb Riley
Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as it was next spring—a Railway...
In the Path of the Alphabet - Frances Jermain
In the Path of the Alphabet - Frances Jermain
- Author: Frances Jermain
- Genre: Writing & Linguistics
Language: we all use it and few of us think about the form it takes on the page. But how did the transmittal of ideas in written form evolve from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the ABCs in use in most countries around the world today? This work, written...
National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report - National Gambling Impact Study Commission
National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report - National Gambling Impact Study Commission
- Author: National Gambling Impact Study Commission
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and economic implications of gambling in the United States. This report presents the principal findings of that work...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness - Thomas Guthrie Marquis
Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness - Thomas Guthrie Marquis
- Author: Thomas Guthrie Marquis
- Genre: Early Modern
These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives...
The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Another short story for children by the well-known conversationalist and writer, Thornton W. Burgess. This story revolves around Unc' Billy Possum and his adventures....
Creative Chemistry - Edwin E. Slosson
Creative Chemistry - Edwin E. Slosson
- Author: Edwin E. Slosson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Chemistry
Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he explains how the modern industrial world now relies on fertilizers, explosives, textile materials, polymers and...
Listening - D. H. Lawrence
Listening - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Listening by D.H. Lawrence. This was the weekly poetry project for December 28th, 2008....
The World - Henry Vaughan
The World - Henry Vaughan
- Author: Henry Vaughan
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of The World by Henry Vaughan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26th, 2009....
Aunt Hannah and Martha and John - Pansy
Aunt Hannah and Martha and John - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Aunt Hannah's fondest wish had been that her nephew John would marry a local girl and take over the family farm. Trouble was, John was never very interested in the farm and followed his own path, first to college and then to seminary. Now he was...
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences - Arthur L. Hayward
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences - Arthur L. Hayward
- Author: Arthur L. Hayward
- Genre: True Crime
"If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few squareyards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long courseof some six centuries over fifty thousand felons, traitors and martyrstook there a last farewell of a world...
Phantom Fortune, A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Phantom Fortune, A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she...
A Visit From Saint Nicholas - Clement Clarke Moore
A Visit From Saint Nicholas - Clement Clarke Moore
- Author: Clement Clarke Moore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. More commonly known today as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009....
The Forbidden Way - George Gibbs
The Forbidden Way - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
...he went over to a cracked mirror in the corner and examined his face, grinning at his image and touching the red marks with his fingers. "That was a love-tap for fair," he said. "I reckon I deserved it. But she oughtn’t to push a man too far. She...
The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by...
