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More Tish - Mary Roberts Rinehart
More Tish - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The series led to a 1942 movie with Marjorie Main. This particular book, the third in the series, was written...
Bible (YLT) 07: Judges - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 07: Judges - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
The Book of The Judges is a record of the Israelites' pattern of continuing disobedience to God, and their salvation by God through judges chosen to lead the people. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)...
Jerusalem - William Blake
Jerusalem - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Jerusalem by William Blake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 30th, 2008....
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry - William Butler Yeats
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
- Author: Emilie Maceroni
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
Magic Words is a Victorian tale of a community and how a few women bring a special kind of Christmas magic to the community-- Magic that can heal wounded hearts. (Introduction by Sean McGaughey)...
Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru - Frederick A. Ober
Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru - Frederick A. Ober
- Author: Frederick A. Ober
- Genre: Early Modern / Exploration
Francisco Pizarro (1471 - 1541) was born into poverty, the illegitimate son of a Spanish soldier. After a brief career as a swineherd, he volunteered to join an expedition to the colony of Darien in Panama. He rose through the ranks to become right...
Gloriana, or The Revolution of 1900 - Florence Dixie
Gloriana, or The Revolution of 1900 - Florence Dixie
- Author: Florence Dixie
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
At the age of twelve, Gloriana de Lara dreams of the day that women are no longer second-class citizens, be able to vote, can aspire to any career open to men. She makes a solemn vow in front of her mother, Speranza, that she will make her dream...
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class boundaries and excessive pride....
Walpole - John Morley
Walpole - John Morley
- Author: John Morley
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biography of this important and controversial statesman by the British historian and anti-imperialist, John Morley...
Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the Principles of Economics in 1881 and he spent much of the next decade at work on the treatise. His plan for...
Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. As always Uncle Remus can be relied upon to provide funny and pointed insight into human personalities through his...
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has always been something especially...
Red Nails - Robert E. Howard
Red Nails - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Conan the Cimmerian pursues the beautiful and deadly pirate Valeria after she kills a Stygian only to find himself cornered by a dragon. Apparently this dragon doesn’t know who he’s messing with. The pair then encounters the city of Xuchotl with its...
Alice Pleasance Liddell - Lewis Carroll
Alice Pleasance Liddell - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 17th, 2007....
Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection - Robert Browning
Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Single author / Letters
For this collection, LibriVox volunteers made their own selections from Robert Browning's poetry and prose to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 7th May 1812....
On Loving God - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
On Loving God - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Author: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
"You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much.I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love. . . ."Saint Bernard's On Loving God is one of his most delightful, and most...
Nevi’im (JPSA) 07: Judges - Jewish Publication Society of America
Nevi’im (JPSA) 07: Judges - Jewish Publication Society of America
- Author: Jewish Publication Society of America
- Genre: Bibles
The Book of Judges (Shoftim) is the second of the former prophets within Nevi’im. The book of Judges covers the time between the conquest described in the Book of Joshua and the establishment of a kingdom in the Books of Samuel, during which...
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Sabine Baring-Gould
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-Gould's most successful publications. (Summary by Carolin)...
The Song of the Chattahoochee - Sidney Lanier
The Song of the Chattahoochee - Sidney Lanier
- Author: Sidney Lanier
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave...
Up The Line - Will Carleton
Up The Line - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010....
The Wind in the Willows (version 3) - Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows (version 3) - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Animals & Nature
The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The prose is beautiful and...
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent leader, Mr. Pickwick. Join him and his friends, Winkle, Snodgrass, and Tupman, as they tour the country in...
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and the clerical (The Barsetshire...
Short Poetry Collection 086 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 086 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of February 2010....
The Widow's House - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Widow's House - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Widows' House by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 11, 2012. Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color...
Sappho: A New Rendering - Sappho
Sappho: A New Rendering - Sappho
- Author: Sappho
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry
Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes...
Indian Boyhood - Charles Alexander Eastman
Indian Boyhood - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild" life in the 19th century, before they succumbed to fences, boundaries, and other constrictions of civilization....
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
Stories of Birds - Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
Stories of Birds - Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
- Author: Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Poetry
This volume contains stories, poems, myths, and facts about lots of different birds, intended for teaching children. It is divided into nine parts, each covering a different type of bird. Summary by Rachel....
The Small Catechism - Martin Luther
The Small Catechism - Martin Luther
- Author: Martin Luther
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Luther's Small Catechism (Der Kleine Katechismus) was written by Martin Luther and published in 1529 for the training of children. Luther's Small Catechism reviews The Ten Commandments, The Apostles' Creed, The Lord's Prayer, The Sacrament of Holy...
Clara Vaughan, Vol I. - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Clara Vaughan, Vol I. - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age. The book gives an account of...
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1900 onward
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter is not so sure how to deal with this unpleasant circumstance. The young man of the household has met her...
Favorite Hymns 01 - Various
Favorite Hymns 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Music
From the earliest period of history, God's people have found joy in expressing their praise to Him in song. This is a collection of 30 favorite public domain hymns of the Christian church. Summary by bookAngel7...
The Silver Princess in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Silver Princess in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn in the Land of Ev. On the way, they meet Planetty, the silver Princess from...
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories - Andrew Barton Paterson
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. - Summary by A. Gramour...
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale - Frank L. Packard
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In the previous book of adventures, we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a daredevil entering businesses or homes and cracking safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper...
The Santa Claus Story Book - Unknown
The Santa Claus Story Book - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales. The first story is a Christmas story in verse, and of course the Christmas holidays are the best time for fairy tales, but the other stories in this volume are fairy tales that can be enjoyed year-round. This...
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as cautions and complaints;...
Bible (ASV) 08: Ruth - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 08: Ruth - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem - Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion - emigrate to the nearby country of Moab. Elimelech dies, and the sons marry two Moabite women:...
Final Report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling - National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oi
Final Report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling - National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oi
- Author: National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oi
- Genre: Technology & Engineering / Earth Sciences
On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled over 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill disrupted an...
