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Cornelli - Johanna Spyri
Cornelli - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of his business trips, hoping that their influence will refine and improve his daughter. Instead, the ladies prove...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor...
Dangerous Days - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dangerous Days - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist and owner of a munitions plant,...
Constructive Beekeeping - Ed Clark
Constructive Beekeeping - Ed Clark
- Author: Ed Clark
- Genre: Animals / Life Sciences
The author explores the effects of condensation and evaporation as they relate to the success of a beehive. The results of various experiments and the author's thoughts are given. (Summary by SoMDbeekeeper)...
Astounding Stories 03, March 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 03, March 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by Ray Cummings, and stories by the prolific Capt. S. P. Meek, Will Smith and R. J. Robbins, Sewell Peaslee...
Mother Night - James Weldon Johnson
Mother Night - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Short Science Fiction Collection 024 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 024 - 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...
Short Poetry Collection 001 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems....
The Two-Gun Man - Charles Alden Seltzer
The Two-Gun Man - Charles Alden Seltzer
- Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Rustlers are stealing Two Diamond cattle, and the manager is fit to be tied. The range boss claims it’s the neighbor, but there’s no proof. Everyone finds the neighbor’s sister desirable, but she finds everyone tedious (at best). Will lies,...
Betty Baird - Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty Baird - Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Author: Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. Our heroine, Betty Baird, who is herself obsessed with reading boarding school books, is sent away to The...
Many Gods - Cale Young Rice
Many Gods - Cale Young Rice
- Author: Cale Young Rice
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Cale Young Rice. The poems in this volume reflect Rice's experiences while travelling across Asia, and many of them have, as their theme, a person or incident set in that area or culture. The title Many Gods then also...
Philomène's Marriages - Henry Gréville
Philomène's Marriages - Henry Gréville
- Author: Henry Gréville
- Genre: Romance
'Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a new work by the gifted and popular authoress, Henry Gréville, whose works have become so famous and popular, that...
Rowdy of the Cross L - B. M. Bower
Rowdy of the Cross L - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Romance / Westerns
There's bad blood between Rowland ''Rowdy'' Vaughan and Harry Conroy. Really bad blood. But Rowdy is crazy about Harry's sister, Jessie. Really crazy. And Jessie thinks the world of Harry and doesn't believe he would ever do anything bad, but... -...
Seven O'Clock Stories - Robert Gordon Anderson
Seven O'Clock Stories - Robert Gordon Anderson
- Author: Robert Gordon Anderson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
"Not once upon a time but just now, in a white house by the side of a road, live three happy children.Their mother and father gave them very odd names, for two old uncles and one aunt, which pleased the old people very much. Their names are all...
Aesop's Fables - new translation - Aesop
Aesop's Fables - new translation - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: General
284 fables on a wide range of subjects, written by the famous author Aesop....
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics - Bliss Carman
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Single author
In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great attention to the original fragments. Summary by inflected....
Beasts, Men and Gods - Ferdinand Ossendowski
Beasts, Men and Gods - Ferdinand Ossendowski
- Author: Ferdinand Ossendowski
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing...
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate' - Thornton Jenkins Hains
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate' - Thornton Jenkins Hains
- Author: Thornton Jenkins Hains
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow manages to hold things together between a murdering former captain, a captain who may not actually be a...
John Quincy Adams - John T. Morse
John Quincy Adams - John T. Morse
- Author: John T. Morse
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. The second tells of his two careers as Secretary of State and President. The last involves his years in the...
How to Succeed - Orison Swett Marden
How to Succeed - Orison Swett Marden
- Author: Orison Swett Marden
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science / Self-Help
In this volume, Orison Swett Marden explains the road to success in simple terms for the benefit of anyone, who wishes to follow in his footsteps. Over 100 years after publication, most of these lessons are still valid today....
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2) - James Baldwin
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2) - James Baldwin
- Author: James Baldwin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction
Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the...
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological...
The Honor of the Big Snows - James Oliver Curwood
The Honor of the Big Snows - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever changing the lives of those few who lived there? What brought him to the home of John and Melisse Cummins as...
The Girl From Hollywood - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Girl From Hollywood - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The countryside outside of Los Angeles is a paradise on Earth: nature gives bounty on the land, the animals are majestic, the oaks breathe and the natural pools and ponds are all you would want on a summer's day. And if you are a Pennington or an...
The Wish - Abraham Cowley
The Wish - Abraham Cowley
- Author: Abraham Cowley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Abraham Cowley (/ˈkuːli/) was a leading English poet in the 16th century. (Summary by David Lawrence)...
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister - Ulysses S. Grant
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister - Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Ulysses S. Grant
- Genre: Letters
Among the national leaders whose names will always hold an honorable place in American history is Ulysses S. Grant, the simple-hearted man and capable soldier, to whose patriotism, courage, persistence, and skill was so largely due the successful...
Short Story Collection Vol. 079 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 079 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, dark stories from Algernon Blackwood and the quirky from Bill Nye, Ambrose Bierce and O. Henry will...
To The Moon - Giacomo Leopardi
To The Moon - Giacomo Leopardi
- Author: Giacomo Leopardi
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor of introducing him, in the most captivating way, to his countrymen. In Germany and France he has excited...
Dodo's Daughter - E. F. Benson
Dodo's Daughter - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: General Fiction
The second in the "Dodo" sequence of novels. (Summary by Crowgirl)...
Bible (ASV) 32: Jonah - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 32: Jonah - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth book in a series of books called the Minor Prophets. Unlike other prophetic books however, this book is not a record of a prophet’s words toward Israel. Instead of the poetry and prophetic prose of...
God-Speed to the Snow - Archibald Lampman
God-Speed to the Snow - Archibald Lampman
- Author: Archibald Lampman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the...
The Tragedy of Mariam - Elizabeth Cary
The Tragedy of Mariam - Elizabeth Cary
- Author: Elizabeth Cary
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live) about Mariam, the second wife of...
One-Act Play Collection 010 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Tenth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. MosadaNarrator: Availle Mosada: Sonia Ebremar: Tomas Peter Cola: Charlotte Duckett First Inquisitor: Anusha Iyer Second Inquisitor: Michele Eaton First Monk:...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 8 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 8 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
The Golden Scarecrow - Hugh Walpole
The Golden Scarecrow - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: General Fiction
Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The Golden Scarecrow, in nine chapters, presents nine stories of nine children, united by location, more or less....
Ion - Plato
Ion - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
In Plato's ION, Socrates questions Ion, whether he should really claim laud and glory for his 'rhapsodic' recitals of Homer's poetry. —Description by Simon-Peter Zak...
Poppy's Presents - Mrs. O. F. Walton
Poppy's Presents - Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Author: Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Genre: Christian Fiction
One day, Poppy gets told her mother has a present for her. But the neighbors laugh and say there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. What is the present? - Summary by Esther ben Simonides...
The Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- Author: Marcus Aurelius
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. These memos survive and continue to inspire others to this day. These writings take the form of quotations...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides the Green Knight and challenges any knight of the Table Round to the beheading game; one of them, he suggests,...
The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Family
Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her parents were always glad to do any thing they could to please her, and to increase her happiness. This story...
