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The Shadow of the North - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Shadow of the North - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure
"The Shadow of the North," while an independent story, in itself, is also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War series which began with "The Hunters of the Hills." All the important characters of the first romance reappear in the...
Insects - John Clare
Insects - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th...
Mystical City of God, Volume 1 - Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
Mystical City of God, Volume 1 - Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
- Author: Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Mystical City of God is a book written in the 17th-century by the Franciscan nun, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. According to María de Ágreda, the book was to a considerable extent dictated to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary and regarded the...
Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long lost city filled with gold and jewels! It is also a love story of a couple willing to give up everything, and I...
The Wishing Bridge - John Greenleaf Whittier
The Wishing Bridge - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. ------ John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of...
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960 - United States Supreme Court
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960 - United States Supreme Court
- Author: United States Supreme Court
- Genre: Law / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robinson)...
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Shakespeare was passionately interested in the history of Rome, as is evident from plays like Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. His tragedy Coriolanus was probably written around 1605-07, and dramatizes the rise and fall of...
Games for Hallow-e'en - Mary E. Blain
Games for Hallow-e'en - Mary E. Blain
- Author: Mary E. Blain
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Crafts & Hobbies / Games
This charming book starts with a brief history of Hallowe'en. There are sample invitations for a Halloween (or Hallowe'en) party, decorations, and then many party games. A number of them have to do with who your future mate might be, although there...
The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter
The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. As much of her other poetry, this volume also succeeds in connecting a modern style of poetry with deep emotion and themes of Irish mythology. - Summary by Carolin...
Essays on Paul Bourget - Mark Twain
Essays on Paul Bourget - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget". (Summary by John Greenman)...
The Human Machine - Arnold Bennett
The Human Machine - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Philosophy / Psychology / Self-Help
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: "I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which has perhaps wholly or partially...
The Chimes - Charles Dickens
The Chimes - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the "Hungry Forties", a time of social and political unrest, and...
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals - Charles Edward Stowe
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals - Charles Edward Stowe
- Author: Charles Edward Stowe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to have touched off the American Civil War with her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), awakening the whole world to...
A Voyage to the Moon - Cyrano de Bergerac
A Voyage to the Moon - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Author: Cyrano de Bergerac
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is an edition by Professor Curtis Page of the Lovell translation of a seminal work of science fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac. Arguably a whimsical forerunner to the adventure stories of Jules Verne, and the French sci-fi tradition generally, it...
Some Verses - Theodore Wratislaw
Some Verses - Theodore Wratislaw
- Author: Theodore Wratislaw
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection of verse was first published in 1892....
The War of the Worlds (Version 4) - H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (Version 4) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher...
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Comedy
This 1895 farce inspired by the outlandish idea of women wearing pants, centers around the predicament of the three daughters of the eccentric Marchioness of Castlejordan, who determined to have sons, raised them like boys. She encouraged them to...
Going Abroad? Some Advice - Robert Luce
Going Abroad? Some Advice - Robert Luce
- Author: Robert Luce
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we can only imagine how exciting it would have been in 1900 to board a steamer from the United States and take a tour through Europe. Luckily Robert Luce gives advice in this book about...
Ned, Bob and Jerry at Boxwood Hall - Clarence Young
Ned, Bob and Jerry at Boxwood Hall - Clarence Young
- Author: Clarence Young
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The seventeenth book in the popular "Motor Boys" series sees our heroes as college freshman. Written under the house pseudonym of Clarence Young. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
Arcadia in Avernus - Will Lillibridge
Arcadia in Avernus - Will Lillibridge
- Author: Will Lillibridge
- Genre: Romance / Short Stories
Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems romantically well... until the ex shows up. Surprisingly modern (if a little theatrical) novella from the...
Bible (ASV) 02: Exodus - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 02: Exodus - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
"Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt and through the wilderness to the Mountain of God: Mount Sinai. There Yahweh, through Moses, gives the Hebrews their laws and enters into a covenant with them, by which he will give them the land of Canaan in...
Bhagavad Gita - Unknown
Bhagavad Gita - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Philosophy / Other religions
The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of a climactic war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties...
I Am A Cat (excerpt) - Sōseki Natsume
I Am A Cat (excerpt) - Sōseki Natsume
- Author: Sōseki Natsume
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a landmark of modern Japanese literature, with its humorous but insightful depiction of society as seen through the eyes of...
The Enchanted April (version 2) - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April (version 2) - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction
Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine',...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, literature, sports, education, humor, philosophy, nature and...
Humour of the North - Various
Humour of the North - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. . . . The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious claim. It embraces, however, what...
The Law and Medical Men - Robert Vashon Rogers
The Law and Medical Men - Robert Vashon Rogers
- Author: Robert Vashon Rogers
- Genre: Law
The idea that in the library of nearly every practitioner in the professions of both Physic and Law there has been for some time a small gap among the books, which could be filled by a little work like this now submitted, has induced the author...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the following articles: Russia in Europe, an annual address by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard The Arctic Cruise of the...
The Call of the Wild (version 4) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (version 4) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a...
The Dreamer of Dreams - Marie of Romania ALEXANDRA VICTORIA
The Dreamer of Dreams - Marie of Romania ALEXANDRA VICTORIA
- Author: Marie of Romania ALEXANDRA VICTORIA
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Literary Fiction / Action & Adventure
Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appeared to him in a dream. When he awoke, he had forgotten the form of the features. Obsessed with recapturing...
Wanted - A Pedigree - Martha Finley
Wanted - A Pedigree - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she goes to live with her religious aunt, who mistreats her because of her temper and her origin. Nina has been haunted by a woman in black for her whole life. She meets Dr. Monteith, who is...
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Travel & Geography / Letters
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that...
The Book of Irish Poetry, part I - Various
The Book of Irish Poetry, part I - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This is first part of the book. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn...
De Monarchia - Dante ALIGHIERI
De Monarchia - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the relationship between secular authority (represented by the Holy Roman Emperor) and religious authority...
Old Granny Fox - Thornton W. Burgess
Old Granny Fox - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature / Family
Old Granny Fox and grandson Reddy Fox must use all their cunning to hunt up enough food to survive the long winter. Food in the Green Meadow is scarce but Farmer Brown's hens are locked up tight and protected by Bowser the Hound, so Granny takes a...
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a...
Callista - John Henry Newman
Callista - John Henry Newman
- Author: John Henry Newman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a Catholic priest and cardinal, bringing a good number of Protestant friends along with him into the Roman...
Bunyan Characters Volume II - Alexander WHYTE
Bunyan Characters Volume II - Alexander WHYTE
- Author: Alexander WHYTE
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This is the second volume of four which goes into the details of Characters from John Bunyan's books. This one continues with the characters of Pilgrims Progress. Summary by fiddlesticks...
Red Diamonds - Justin McCarthy
Red Diamonds - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for diamonds and become very rich. They agree that the wealth is to be split equally between them or their heirs after a few years and that the share of any one who died without leaving...
Cat Tales - Various
Cat Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Animals
Cat Tales is the first of a series of kid-friendly collections of animal stories and non-fiction. There'll be one or two grade-school-level texts on the animal, with eight-nine fiction works. Source for these is Project Gutenberg. (Summary by...
