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Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words - Friedrich KERST
Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words - Friedrich KERST
- Author: Friedrich KERST
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this “wunderkinder” took to the stage and began his life as a prolific and celebrated creator-genius of such...
The Burglar and the Blizzard - Alice DUER MILLER
The Burglar and the Blizzard - Alice DUER MILLER
- Author: Alice DUER MILLER
- Genre: Romance
Geoffrey Holland, a young millionaire, visits his country home in Hillsborough after hearing of a recent string of burglaries. To Holland's surprise, he finds the burglar reading a book in his library. And it's none other than his old schoolmate,...
The Stag Cook Book - Carroll Mac SHERIDAN
The Stag Cook Book - Carroll Mac SHERIDAN
- Author: Carroll Mac SHERIDAN
- Genre: Cooking
This book is dedicated to "that great host of bachelors and benedicts alike who have at one time or another tried to 'cook something': and who, in the attempt, have weakened under a fire of feminie raillery and sarcasm, only to spoil what, under...
The Flag and the Faithful - William J. LAMPTON
The Flag and the Faithful - William J. LAMPTON
- Author: William J. LAMPTON
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2013. William J. Lampton was the second cousin of Jane Clemens (the youngest of the three daughters of...
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father’s campaign in India. Thanks to Capt. Crewe’s money, Sara is treated as a little princess until, one day, word...
The Insurrection in Dublin - James STEPHENS
The Insurrection in Dublin - James STEPHENS
- Author: James STEPHENS
- Genre: Political Science
The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain by force of arms. This account was written by Irish novelist James Stephens, who lived...
Prior Analytics - Aristotle
Prior Analytics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Ancient
Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In Prior Analytics Aristotle conducts a formal study of arguments. In logic an argument is a series of true or false...
The Lady of the Lake - Edmund John EYRE
The Lady of the Lake - Edmund John EYRE
- Author: Edmund John EYRE
- Genre: Plays / Romance
At the request of Mr. Siddons, Manager and Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the following Performance was composed. I am very sensible that Mr. Scott’s Poem of “The Lady of the Lake” afforded material for a much superior Drama than the one...
Short Poetry Collection 141 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 141 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2015....
A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes - Clifton JOHNSON
A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes - Clifton JOHNSON
- Author: Clifton JOHNSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Wild animals play a big role in many fairy tales, and foxes are some of the best-represented animals in folklore. In this volume, Clifton Johnson has collected stories about foxes from all over the world, adapted for children as bedtime fairy tales....
Fantômas - Marcel ALLAIN
Fantômas - Marcel ALLAIN
- Author: Marcel ALLAIN
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless thief and killer, a bloodthirsty successor to LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin. The first five novels were made into silent...
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and emigrated to America in 1848. Among his many accomplishments and...
Mother West Wind's Children - Thornton W. Burgess
Mother West Wind's Children - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
"You can't fool old Mother Nature. No, Sir, you can't fool old Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try." The animals of the Green Meadows and Green Forest have little adventures while Grandfather Frog tells stories to Mother West Wind's children,...
A Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope - Philipp MELANCHTHON
A Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope - Philipp MELANCHTHON
- Author: Philipp MELANCHTHON
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537) (Latin, Tractatus de Potestate et Primatu Papae), The Tractate for short, is the seventh Lutheran credal document of the Book of Concord. Philip Melanchthon, its author, completed it on...
What's Mine's Mine - George MacDonald
What's Mine's Mine - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction
Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The characters quickly become your friends as you identify with and learn from their struggles and joys. Contrasts abound...
Mothering on Perilous - Lucy S. FURMAN
Mothering on Perilous - Lucy S. FURMAN
- Author: Lucy S. FURMAN
- Genre: General Fiction
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very depressed from her loss she soon becomes caretaker of the garden at a school and not many days later finds...
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore near his home. The stranger...
It Can Be Done - Various
It Can Be Done - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubles seem too much. The purpose of this volume is to bring men courage and resolution, to cheer them, to fire...
Priest on Horseback-Father Farmer: 1720-1786 - Eva K. BETZ
Priest on Horseback-Father Farmer: 1720-1786 - Eva K. BETZ
- Author: Eva K. BETZ
- Genre: Historical
A historical novel for children, which tells the story of several months in the life of the then famous Father Farmer, as he traveled a Mass circuit in Pre-Revolutionary, Colonial America. He faced much danger and and adventure, in order to provide...
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition co-named after its leader, Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon. The book...
The Golden Threshold - Sarojini NAIDU
The Golden Threshold - Sarojini NAIDU
- Author: Sarojini NAIDU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Religious Fiction / Romance
Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still famous to this day.As well as being a...
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West - Frank Norris
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the commodities market in Chicago in "A Deal in Wheat" to a desperate race for love in "The Riding of Felipe." "A...
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs - Stanley LANE-POOLE
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs - Stanley LANE-POOLE
- Author: Stanley LANE-POOLE
- Genre: Early Modern
A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of the pirate, Ujra Barbarossa, to the French control of Algeria in 1830. Although piracy had plagued all the world's...
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012. This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. Some of his poems...
A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory - Lucy LARCOM
A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory - Lucy LARCOM
- Author: Lucy LARCOM
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mil-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society." This is her colorful autobiography. Here, she tells about her happy childhood, and her time...
A Fool There Was - Porter Emerson BROWNE
A Fool There Was - Porter Emerson BROWNE
- Author: Porter Emerson BROWNE
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young manhood, one of these fulfilled his...
The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare) - Algernon Blackwood
The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare) - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A researcher goes on an expedition to find "The Tablets of the Gods" which have plagued his dreams since his boyhood. He finds them, and the horrible truth of humanity's true purpose in the universe. This story, The Man Who Found Out" is an example...
Short Poetry Collection 130 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 130 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2014....
The Carved Cupboard (Dramatic Reading) - Amy LE FEUVRE
The Carved Cupboard (Dramatic Reading) - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
Agatha, Gwen, Clare and Elfie have always been told that they will inherit their aunt's house. But when their aunt dies, she leaves it all to their intolerable cousin James. What will they do? Will the verses Nannie gives them prove true? Summary by...
The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)...
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism - Bertrand Russell
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' is a series of lectures by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) that touches on numerous topics, including the nature of propositions, the relations of propositions to facts and of different types of words to the...
עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club - יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim BRENNER
עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club - יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim BRENNER
- Author: יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim BRENNER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / War & Military Fiction
This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story "Injustice" by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conquest of Palestine by the British troops during WWI. The story takes place on the Turkish side of the dividing line...
Grammar-Land - M. L. NESBITT
Grammar-Land - M. L. NESBITT
- Author: M. L. NESBITT
- Genre: Reference / Language learning
In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that govern them in Grammar-Land. "Judge Grammar is far mightier than any Fairy Queen, for he rules over real...
The Machine Stops (version 4) - E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops (version 4) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Science Fiction
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in 1909 the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was...
Father Goriot (version 2) - Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (version 2) - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. France was undergoing massive...
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii - David KALAKAUA
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii - David KALAKAUA
- Author: David KALAKAUA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii. Introduction, including a history, geography and social and religious commentary on the islands by...
American Men of Action - Burton Egbert Stevenson
American Men of Action - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
In this book, Burton Egbert Stevenson writes a brief biography of some of the most noteworthy men in American history. He begins at the very beginning of the history of America with Christopher Columbus and proceeds forward with the story of people...
Russian Fairy Tales - Peter Nikolaevich POLEVOI
Russian Fairy Tales - Peter Nikolaevich POLEVOI
- Author: Peter Nikolaevich POLEVOI
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen was first made generally known to the British public by Mr W. R. S. Ralston in his “Russian Folk-Tales.” That excellent and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a treatise on Slavonic folk-lore,...
Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud
Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Science
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of...
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich RASPE
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich RASPE
- Author: Rudolf Erich RASPE
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in...
