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Billy Whiskers' Travels - Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
Billy Whiskers' Travels - Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
- Author: Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
Running away from home is always bound to lead to adventures, some surprising and good and some not so pleasant. Follow Billy Whiskers when he encounters fireworks, tigers and dragons! Will this little goat ever get home again? - Summary by Larry...
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed - Titus Maccius Plautus
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epignomus and Pamphilus, who, having run through their property in the company of idlers and Parasites, have, with...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Volume 3 completes the series. Tensions are rising...
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Summary by Gillian Hendrie and Wikipedia...
The Junior Classics Volume 10 Part 1: Poems Old and New - William PATTEN
The Junior Classics Volume 10 Part 1: Poems Old and New - William PATTEN
- Author: William PATTEN
- Genre: Poetry
The order of the poems has been arranged according to age from first through eight grade. The collection of poems in part 1 begins with the simplest nursery rhymes. Grade II begins with The Sleepy Song by Josephine D. Bacon, Grade III begins with...
Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends - Marshall Saunders
Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Dear little Princess Sukey sitting by the fire—pretty little pigeon—of what is she thinking as she dreamily eyes the blazing wood? If a pigeon could review its past life, what she has of bird mind would be running back over the series of adventures...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 7 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 7 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
- Author: Benjamin N. Cardozo
- Genre: Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo, one of the most influential American justists of his era, served as the New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice, before joining the Supreme Court. His 1921 book The Nature of the Judicial Process, now considered a legal classic,...
The Blue Ghost Mystery - Harold L. Goodwin
The Blue Ghost Mystery - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
When the ghost of a Civil War soldier, killed visiting his sweetheart across enemy lines, comes back to haunt the Virginian locals at an old mine, Rick Brant and his ex-marine colleague Scotty decide to investigate. - Summary by John Walker...
Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Historical Fiction
What were the lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast regions, and Appalachians of North America like in the earliest colonial days? Full of untamed forests, wild animals, nuts, berries, and Indians. Chateaubriand spent many years exploring the area,...
The Brothers Karamazov (version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world literature. It is the last and finest novel of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who died before writing a planned sequel. The...
Eight Cousins (Version 3) - Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins (Version 3) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, who are the...
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General
These re-tellings of well known stories originally written by Charles Dickens are all focused on the children in them. Their humor and pathos are kept intact and make for captivating reading....
Children's Short Works, Vol. 047 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 047: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Castled Crag of Drachenfels, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 5, 2021. ------ The Castled Crag at Drachenfels is a 4-verse poem embedded in Canto 3...
History of England In Words of One Syllable - Helen W. Pierson
History of England In Words of One Syllable - Helen W. Pierson
- Author: Helen W. Pierson
- Genre: General / Middle Ages/Middle History
A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginning and remedial reading students. - Summary by KevinS...
The Radio Planet - Ralph Milne Farley
The Radio Planet - Ralph Milne Farley
- Author: Ralph Milne Farley
- Genre: Science Fiction
Could you make a radio set? Don’t answer rashly. Don’t say that you have already built several. For note that we did not ask whether you could assemble a set from parts already manufactured by others, but rather whether you could build the entire...
Assist the Souls in Purgatory - Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Assist the Souls in Purgatory - Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
- Author: Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A short little book on Purgatory, the Poor Souls and how we can help them with our prayers. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heavenly" counterparts much later, in response to the dissatisfaction that one of the author's patrons expressed...
The Goop Directory (version 3) - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Goop Directory (version 3) - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Poetry
The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for Their Misdeeds and Serving as a Salutary Example for All Virtuous Children In this DIRECTORY you'll see Just what you never ought to be; And so, it should Direct you way To Good Behavior, every...
