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The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763 - Charles William Chadwick Oman
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763 - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was no Victorian Age, the Great War (World War I) went unfought. No Cold War, no United States, no Soviet Union;...
Summa Theologica - 12 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on Gratuitous Graces and the States of Life - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 12 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on Gratuitous Graces and the States of Life - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
Betsey and I Are Out - Will Carleton
Betsey and I Are Out - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Betsey and I Are Out by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for March 22nd, 2009....
Tales of Old Japan - Lord Redesdale
Tales of Old Japan - Lord Redesdale
- Author: Lord Redesdale
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains a number of classic Japanese stories, fairy tales, and other folklore; as well as Japanese sermons and...
Anne of Green Gables (version 6) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables (version 6) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General
Matthew and Marilla make plans to adopt a boy to help with farm chores but because of a mistake, Matthew finds a girl waiting at the train station to come home with him. Anne Shirley is a bold, tempered, imaginative and talkative young girl, yet the...
Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 1, January 1901 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 1, January 1901 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 03 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 03 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; book 3 begins with the fortune of the family of Brian Boru and continues through the rise of...
The Wind and the Moon - George MacDonald
The Wind and the Moon - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of The Wind and the Moon by George Macdonald. This is the fortnightly poetry project for September 28, 2014....
Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound - William Robert Spencer
Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound - William Robert Spencer
- Author: William Robert Spencer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 8, 2012. William Robert Spencer, English poet and wit, was the younger son of Lord...
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2) - Irvin S. Cobb
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2) - Irvin S. Cobb
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and the problems of having a large one; teeth, hair and finally hands and feet. Summary by Phil Chenevert...
In a Garden - Amy Lowell
In a Garden - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of In a Garden by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 14th, 2007....
Atlantis - Gerhart Hauptmann
Atlantis - Gerhart Hauptmann
- Author: Gerhart Hauptmann
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a...
Thaw - Edward Thomas
Thaw - Edward Thomas
- Author: Edward Thomas
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Thaw by Edward Thomas. This was the weekly poetry project for March 1st, 2009....
Selected Public Domain Poems - John Masefield
Selected Public Domain Poems - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry / Philosophy
Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (Summary by Liam Neely)...
Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories - P. H. EMERSON
Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories - P. H. EMERSON
- Author: P. H. EMERSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception of the French story, they were told me and I took them down at the time. In most cases I have done but little...
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth, Compiled by a Teacher FITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847. WM. J. MERRIAM, PRINTER, FITCHBURG. (Summary from the Frontspiece)...
Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—the arrival of the visitor from Planet X—a visitor in the form of energy. But there are factions at work...
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes - Pádraic Colum
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes - Pádraic Colum
- Author: Pádraic Colum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone..."So begins Padriac Colum's...
The Lady from Nowhere - Fergus Hume
The Lady from Nowhere - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (Introduction by MaryAnn)...
Med Ship Man (version 2) - Murray Leinster
Med Ship Man (version 2) - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Others have diseases brought to them accidentally—or on purpose—by visiting ships. When millions of lives are...
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan - Toru Dutt
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan - Toru Dutt
- Author: Toru Dutt
- Genre: Single author
Toru Dutt was an Indian poet, writing in English. Born in 1856, she travelled to England and France, and being a polyglot became fluent in French and English, later in Sanskrit as well. Her works gained popularity and success posthumously. This...
This Country of Ours, Part 3 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 3 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Reference / Modern (19th C)
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 3: Stories...
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study - Grace Isabel Colbron
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study - Grace Isabel Colbron
- Author: Grace Isabel Colbron
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Joseph Muller, police detective, travels to a remote Hungarian village to discover the truth behind the murder of a beloved village Pastor. (Introduction by Dawn)...
Humorous Ghost Stories - Various
Humorous Ghost Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- "Dey ain't no ghosts" / by Ellis Parker Butler -- The transferred ghost / by Frank R. Stockton -- The mummy's...
The Golden Goose Book - L. Leslie Brooke
The Golden Goose Book - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15661. We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded and selfishness is punished but Brooke...
The Evil Genius - Wilkie Collins
The Evil Genius - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, including the "evil genius", and their governess Sydney Westerfield. In colorful pictures, Collins presents the story of...
The Libation-Bearers (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
The Libation-Bearers (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Tragedy
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The only extant example of an ancient...
Trees Every Child Should Know - Julia Ellen Rogers
Trees Every Child Should Know - Julia Ellen Rogers
- Author: Julia Ellen Rogers
- Genre: Nature
The best time to being to study the trees is to-day! The place to begin is right where you are, provided there is a tree near enough, for a lesson about trees will be very dull unless there is a tree to look at, to ask questions of, and to get...
Bible (ASV) 17: Esther - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 17: Esther - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The book commences with a feast organized by Ahasuerus, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of Shushan. Ahasuerus orders his wife Vashti to display her beauty before the guests. She refuses, and the King's...
The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories - Leonard Merrick
The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories - Leonard Merrick
- Author: Leonard Merrick
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed to evoke a charming picture of England in the early 20th century. It is surprising that Merrick's work is no...
Funeral Orations - Gregory of Nazianzus
Funeral Orations - Gregory of Nazianzus
- Author: Gregory of Nazianzus
- Genre: Religion
Gregory the Theologian, also known as Gregory Nazianzen (which name also refers to his father,) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. Along with the...
The Story Of A Modern Woman - Ella Hepworth DIXON
The Story Of A Modern Woman - Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Author: Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Genre: Undefined
"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. She becomes a writer. But she cannot write whatever she wants. There is a format in which her novels should be...
Short Science Fiction Collection 009 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 009 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
Short Poetry Collection 106 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 106 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2012....
The Sinking of the ''Merrimac'' - Richmond Pearson Hobson
The Sinking of the ''Merrimac'' - Richmond Pearson Hobson
- Author: Richmond Pearson Hobson
- Genre: War & Military
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor in Cuba and thus bottle up the Spanish fleet at anchor in the bay. This book contains Hobson's personal...
Migration of Birds - U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Migration of Birds - U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Author: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
Snow Geese which left James Bay, Canada, arrived at the Louisiana Gulf coast "60 hours later after a continuous flight of over 1,700 miles at an average speed of 28 miles per hour." This is just one of the many intriguing facts about bird migration...
The Son of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Son of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the fourth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with Tarzan in the third novel and wants to even the score. (adapted from Wikipedia)...
Starman's Quest - Robert Silverberg
Starman's Quest - Robert Silverberg
- Author: Robert Silverberg
- Genre: Science Fiction
Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. When one of the twin boys left the starship, he grew older while his twin in space barely aged. So the starship twin left the ship to find what happened to his...
The Wars of the Jews - Flavius Josephus
The Wars of the Jews - Flavius Josephus
- Author: Flavius Josephus
- Genre: Antiquity
The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish War - original title: Phlauiou Iôsêpou historia Ioudaïkou polemou pros Rhômaious bibliona) is a book written by...
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories - Anthony Trollope
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay;Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale - Summary by Nicholas Clifford...
