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The Ruby and the Caldron - Anna Katharine Green
The Ruby and the Caldron - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it, but who, of the few guests, might have the jewel, and how to solve the mystery without causing a scandal?...
Short Poetry Collection 056 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 056 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the...
King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327) - William Holden HUTTON
King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327) - William Holden HUTTON
- Author: William Holden HUTTON
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Law
William Holden Hutton (1860-1930) was a British historian and Dean of Winchester Cathedral. In this slim volume, Hutton writes of the long period of feudal anarchy following the death of King Henry I in 1135, during which Henry's implacable...
Spiders - Cecil WARBURTON
Spiders - Cecil WARBURTON
- Author: Cecil WARBURTON
- Genre: Nature
The mental capacity of spiders; web architecture; spiders that live under water, even though they need air to breath; spiders that mimic ants; spiders that mimic bird droppings; cannibalism; odd spider mating rituals--these are just some of the...
On Something - Hilaire Belloc
On Something - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that...
The Lausiac History - PALLADIUS
The Lausiac History - PALLADIUS
- Author: PALLADIUS
- Genre: Religion
The Lausiac History (Historia Lausiaca) is a seminal work archiving the Desert Fathers (early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian desert) written in 419-420 by Palladius of Galatia, at the request of Lausus, chamberlain at the court of the...
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah - Richard Francis BURTON
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah - Richard Francis BURTON
- Author: Richard Francis BURTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Travel & Geography
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as...
Ethan Frome (version 2) - Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan...
Mountain Interval - Robert Frost
Mountain Interval - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Single author
Originally published in 1916 and revised in 1920, Mountain Interval is Robert Frost's third collection of solo poetry. In it, Frost reflects on human tragedies and fears, expresses his reaction to the complexities of life, and ultimately accepts his...
Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing - George ILES
Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing - George ILES
- Author: George ILES
- Genre: Medical
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles written by prominent physicians and scientists describing key advances in medicine through the end of the 19th century....
The Story of the Armada - Amice MACDONELL
The Story of the Armada - Amice MACDONELL
- Author: Amice MACDONELL
- Genre: Plays / Historical
It's the summer of 1588, and all is not well in England. Citizens are plotting to betray their queen for Spanish gold, and the dreaded Armada is coming closer and closer. It's up to Lord Burleigh and brave Sir Francis Drake to stop them, but will...
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election - Robert MUELLER
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election - Robert MUELLER
- Author: Robert MUELLER
- Genre: Law / Political Science
The report from Robert Mueller's team reporting the results of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. This report was released on April 18, 2019. The recording is of the originally-released, redacted version. -...
Spinning-Wheel Stories - Louisa May Alcott
Spinning-Wheel Stories - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A group of stories-within-a-story, told in the classic Louisa May Alcott style. "I've a little cold," said the old lady, "and am too hoarse for talking, my dears; but Aunt Elinor has looked up a parcel of old tales that I've told her at different...
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Satire
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of...
Freckles - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Freckles - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Nature
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the...
Edison, His Life and Inventions - Frank Lewis DYER
Edison, His Life and Inventions - Frank Lewis DYER
- Author: Frank Lewis DYER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader...
The Intrusion of Jimmy - P. G. Wodehouse
The Intrusion of Jimmy - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England,...
In Brief Authority - F. Anstey
In Brief Authority - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Fantasy Fiction
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough snob, is crowned Queen of the...
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey - Washington Irving
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Epistolary Fiction
Although this book may not have the immediately recognizable title of, say, “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this book deserves its place among the pantheon of Washington Irving’s classics. Irving, who traveled extensively in his youth...
Madcap - George Gibbs
Madcap - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Quote:"To the quiet Titine her mistress created an impression of bringing not only herself into the room, but also the violent horse and the whole of the out-of-doors besides." --Chapter 1 of Madcap. --In the same chapter, Hermia Challoner, this...
When Mother Lets Us Cook - Constance JOHNSON
When Mother Lets Us Cook - Constance JOHNSON
- Author: Constance JOHNSON
- Genre: Reference / Crafts & Hobbies
A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils needed for the preparation of each dish. (Summary from the text)...
Short Poetry Collection 048 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 048 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 048: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Police Your Planet - Lester del Rey
Police Your Planet - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Science Fiction
Bruce Gordon looked at his ticket, grimaced at the ONE WAY stamped on it, then tore it into bits and let the pieces scatter over the floor. He counted them as they fell; thirty pieces in all, one for each year of his life. Little ones for the two...
The Flint Heart - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Flint Heart - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the flint heart's ultimate defeat involves multiple trips into fairyland by Charles and Unity, children of one of...
The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Thomas Hood
The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little...
Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter - Josephine BROWN
Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter - Josephine BROWN
- Author: Josephine BROWN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own narratives. She distills and summarizes the major revelatory moments of his autobiography while she also...
The Bible For Young People Vol. 2 - Anonymous
The Bible For Young People Vol. 2 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Religion
"The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctrines, and whatever is generally regarded as unprofitable to young readers. Moreover, it is so divided into...
The Metamorphosis (version 2) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 2) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 and one of his best known works. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a horrible verminous creature. Terrifying in...
Short Story Collection Vol. 058 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 058 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 058: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
At Home From Church - Sarah Orne Jewett
At Home From Church - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At Home From Church by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 19, 2011. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean Howells called "an uncommon feeling for...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: History / Transportation
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks...
A Wasted Day - Richard Harding Davis
A Wasted Day - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a delightful little story about the most successful banker on Wall Street, who finds his philanthropic side when one of his former employees is arrested and needs someone to vouch for his character.. - Summary by Carolin...
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly-employed French valet...
Magna Moralia - Aristotle
Magna Moralia - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Philosophy
Magna Moralia (Ancient Greek: ΗΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ, English: Great Ethics) discusses topics including friendship, virtue, happiness and God. It is disputed whether Aristotle wrote Magna Moralia. This author concludes that it is absurd to suggest that God...
The Camper - E. Pauline Johnson
The Camper - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest primeval. A simple stone surrounded by...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts...
Greylorn - Keith Laumer
Greylorn - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their last hope of salvation on him and his mission. He has to find a colony that presumedly was established at an...
The Death of the Lion - Henry James
The Death of the Lion - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the...
The Story of a Monkey on a Stick - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Monkey on a Stick - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: General
One of the charming series of Make Believe Stories, this very special toy, the Monkey on a Stick, wonders where he could be, since he REMEMBERS being in the toy shop. Listen to hear what adventures he has when he goes to live with a new friend! -...
