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The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow - Adelbert von CHAMISSO
The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow - Adelbert von CHAMISSO
- Author: Adelbert von CHAMISSO
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds like a good idea at first, it turns out that having no shadow is considered to be so strange by society, that...
William, An Englishman - Cicely HAMILTON
William, An Englishman - Cicely HAMILTON
- Author: Cicely HAMILTON
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally published by Skeffington & Son...
The Toys of Peace - Saki
The Toys of Peace - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham Redman)...
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies - H. A. GUERBER
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies - H. A. GUERBER
- Author: H. A. GUERBER
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run from the pre-Columbian era through the end of the American War of Independence. Some of the expressions and...
Love Insurance (version 2) - Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance (version 2) - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
On duty with Lloyds of London in NYC, young Richard Minot is sent to the St Augustine-ish town of San Marco to ensure that a wealthy young lady, Cynthia Meyrick marry his firm's client, Lord Harrowby. Then, in a meet-cute on a slow-moving train,...
American Philosophy Collection Vol. 2 - Various
American Philosophy Collection Vol. 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This recording is the second in an ongoing series of collections highlighting foundational articles in early 20th Century American philosophy. Volume 2 focuses on the debates surrounding the emergence of the so-called 'New Realism.' Inspired by the...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 2, September 1899 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 2, September 1899 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All 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...
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia - Francis Marion Crawford
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is about to accept a foreign prince as husband, who lied about converting to Islam, he takes the law into his own...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Memoirs
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 2 chronicles Lincoln's life from...
Walking - Henry David Thoreau
Walking - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Nature
This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death and it was included as part of the June 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly. This essay appears, on the surface, to be...
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but...
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 - Isaac D'ISRAELI
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 - Isaac D'ISRAELI
- Author: Isaac D'ISRAELI
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do right or wrong. Any bibliophile...
Faery Lands of the South Seas - James Norman HALL
Faery Lands of the South Seas - James Norman HALL
- Author: James Norman HALL
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co authored “Mutiny on the Bounty”. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one. This book just...
The Lady From the Sea - Henrik Ibsen
The Lady From the Sea - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Drama
The title character in Ibsen's drama, Ellida Wangel, is married to a prosperous doctor, but feels stifled by her roles as wife and stepmother to her husband's two daughters by a previous marriage, Hilde and Bolette. Ten years earlier she had...
Helen of Troy and Other Poems - Sara Teasdale
Helen of Troy and Other Poems - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry
Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great successes. This volume also contains the small drama On the Tower, which is recorded here with a full...
The Black Motor Car - Harris BURLAND
The Black Motor Car - Harris BURLAND
- Author: Harris BURLAND
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Head over heels in love with the amazingly beautiful Mrs. de la Mothe, Jack Portheous is led to embezzle a large sum of money from the bank at which he works, and plans to elope with her to South America. On the eve of their planned departure,...
Studies About Trees - Jacob Joshua LEVISON
Studies About Trees - Jacob Joshua LEVISON
- Author: Jacob Joshua LEVISON
- Genre: Nature
In this work Levison aims to create a book that allows beginners to be able to understand how to identify trees, as well as to give information of their structure and uses. Once these topics are addressed, he then moves into concepts of care,...
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse - Various
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Science
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century this mode of popularising science was...
Red Pottage - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
Red Pottage - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Author: Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not...
The Rover (Part One) - Aphra BEHN
The Rover (Part One) - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Plays
The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in Naples at Carnival time. The "rover"...
Divine Healing - Andrew Murray
Divine Healing - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Andrew Murray’s practical and devotional writings on the Bible have been a help and blessing to Christian believers for more than a century. In this powerfully written book, Murray takes up the subject of healing as revealed in Scripture, showing...
Balder Dead - Matthew Arnold
Balder Dead - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin's son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. (Summary by Nathan)...
Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were there any blood motives? Detective John Thorne would have to discover. Inspired by a true story, this novel is a...
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 - Various
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Colletion containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.Section 09: A Cornish Christmas Play, a mummers' play, was read by gathered...
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)...
On Hearing the Messiah - William Lisle BOWLES
On Hearing the Messiah - William Lisle BOWLES
- Author: William Lisle BOWLES
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests. In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen...
Hamlet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Hamlet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 009 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 009 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 009: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense - Thomas REID
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense - Thomas REID
- Author: Thomas REID
- Genre: Modern
"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of the Kantian truths, affords us a very thorough conviction of the inadequacy of the senses to produce the objective...
America - Samuel Francis SMITH
America - Samuel Francis SMITH
- Author: Samuel Francis SMITH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of America by Samuel Francis Smith. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 4th, 2010....
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1909 - Various
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1909 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History
The History Teacher's Magazine was a monthly publication devoted to the interests of teachers specializing in history, civics, and geography. It provides scholarly articles as well as advice on organizing course content, tips for engaging students,...
Through the Looking-Glass (version 3) - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass (version 3) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)....
The Best Church Hymns - Louis Fitzgerald BENSON
The Best Church Hymns - Louis Fitzgerald BENSON
- Author: Louis Fitzgerald BENSON
- Genre: Music
This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this recording are said only, not sung, along with a few explanatory notes for each hymn (some footnotes, not all, here...
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and going to balls. Catherine finds...
The Traitor - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The Traitor - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- Author: Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), the final book in his trilogy which also includes The Leopard’s Spots (1902), and The Clansman (1905), spans a...
The Last Day of a Condemned - Victor HUGO
The Last Day of a Condemned - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not betray his name to the reader or what he has done. He describes his life in prison, everything from what his...
The Taxi - Amy Lowell
The Taxi - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Taxi by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes - Rupert H. WHELDON
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes - Rupert H. WHELDON
- Author: Rupert H. WHELDON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Cooking
Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the Vegetarian Society and other advocates of vegetarian diets were engaged in a debate about the inclusion of dairy...
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Thomas Dowler MURPHY
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Thomas Dowler MURPHY
- Author: Thomas Dowler MURPHY
- Genre: Travel & Geography
In this chronicle of a summer's motoring in Britain I have not attempted a guide-book in any sense, yet the maps, together with the comments on highways, towns, and country, should be of some value even in that capacity. I hope, however, that the...
Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther - Martin Luther
Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther - Martin Luther
- Author: Martin Luther
- Genre: Religion
When Martin Luther promulgated his “95 Theses” 1n 1517, he probably did not envision the initiation of the historical division of the indivisible Church, beginning what we now know as the Protestant Reformation. For his opposition to such practices...
