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Bible (KJV) 26: Ezekiel - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 26: Ezekiel - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The book of Ezekiel follows the southern kingdom of Israel, Judah, into captivity by the Babylonians. Ezekiel cries judgement on the Israelites for their sins, but also sings of God's mercy and the ultimate salvation of His people. Aside from its...
Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal - Saint Jane Frances de CHANTAL
Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal - Saint Jane Frances de CHANTAL
- Author: Saint Jane Frances de CHANTAL
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her husband. St. Francis de Sales was her Spiritual Director and a close friend. After St. Francis de Sales...
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed extra loot by wandering through the battlefield stripping the dead and dying of valuables. I don't even know...
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" followed by "Further Chronicles of Avonlea." The book includes fifteen short and entertaining, funny, and romantic stories. She brings...
Symbolism - Johann Adam MÖHLER
Symbolism - Johann Adam MÖHLER
- Author: Johann Adam MÖHLER
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Johann Adam Möhler was professor theology at the Tübingen University where both Catholics and Protestants taught and studied. In 1832 he published Symbolism; a work that examined the doctrines of original sin, grace and free will as held by the...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels...
Maoriland Fairy Tales - Edith Howes
Maoriland Fairy Tales - Edith Howes
- Author: Edith Howes
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this memory retelling the carvings all have relative information and prompts, stories of Atua (sort of gods) and...
The Golden Age - Kenneth Grahame
The Golden Age - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in London by The Bodley Head, and in Chicago by Stone & Kimball. (The Prologue and six of the stories had...
Stories of Old Greece and Rome - Emilie Kip BAKER
Stories of Old Greece and Rome - Emilie Kip BAKER
- Author: Emilie Kip BAKER
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. All of the famous Heroes are here: Theseus, Jason, Hercules, and all of the well known Deities. These stories...
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840 - William Cooper HOWELLS
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840 - William Cooper HOWELLS
- Author: William Cooper HOWELLS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howells. The Howells were Welsh woolen mill owners. William Cooper's father brought the family to America in...
The Wild Knight and Other Poems - G. K. Chesterton
The Wild Knight and Other Poems - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of poems that tend to revolve around the theme of the wonder of the world. It includes the short, poetic play, "The Wild Knight". Summary by Robert Smith...
The Trees of Pride - G. K. Chesterton
The Trees of Pride - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Short Stories
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the...
The Town Down the River: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
The Town Down the River: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Author: Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson, dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. This volume also contains his lesser known shorter poems as well as the well-known narrative poem Miniver Cheevy. - Summary by Carolin...
The Harbor - Ernest Poole
The Harbor - Ernest Poole
- Author: Ernest Poole
- Genre: General Fiction
The Harbor was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, The Family won a Pulitzer Prize. The Harbor is a fictional account of life on a Brooklyn waterfront through the...
The Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Margaret HERSCHEL
The Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Margaret HERSCHEL
- Author: Margaret HERSCHEL
- Genre: History
A short review of the history and presence of Native Americans in the area of the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, USA. - Summary by david wales...
Dream Psychology - Sigmund Freud
Dream Psychology - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: Psychology
Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as circumstantial as a legal record to be...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 - Friedrich Schiller
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant forces following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, and Wallenstein's actions leading to his...
The Essentials of Prayer - Edward M. BOUNDS
The Essentials of Prayer - Edward M. BOUNDS
- Author: Edward M. BOUNDS
- Genre: Religion / Christianity - Other
The Sunday School Times says of the author, "he was a specialist in prayer and his books are for the quiet hour, for careful meditation and for all who wish to seek and find the treasures of God." This book is a ready helper for those who want to...
American Notes for General Circulation - Charles Dickens
American Notes for General Circulation - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if returning a status report on their...
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 - Elizabeth Cady STANTON
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 - Elizabeth Cady STANTON
- Author: Elizabeth Cady STANTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend for over 50 years. While Elizabeth initially stayed home with her husband and many babies and wrote the...
Enoch Arden - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Enoch Arden - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Single author
In the poem "Enoch Arden," Tennyson's epic narrative of the enduring power of love in the face of insurmountable odds, is found a classic example of the determination of the human spirit to triumph in circumstances that address the true meaning of...
The Legion of Lazarus - Edmond HAMILTON
The Legion of Lazarus - Edmond HAMILTON
- Author: Edmond HAMILTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Those convicted of the most heinous crimes are sentenced to the Humane Penalty: they are ejected from the airlock of a ship, to freeze in the icy chill of outer space. Death is instantaneous. But in some cases, not permanent. - Summary by Peter...
The Art of War (Version 4) - Sun Tzu 孙武
The Art of War (Version 4) - Sun Tzu 孙武
- Author: Sun Tzu 孙武
- Genre: War & Military
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly considered to be the...
Bible (KJV) 00: Preface - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 00: Preface - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The preface to the KJV Bible is fitting to read, as it reminds contemporary readers of the transitory nature of all Bible translations. The preface is a necessary, though often unread, gift from the translators to readers of the KJV. If you read...
Bacon - Richard William CHURCH
Bacon - Richard William CHURCH
- Author: Richard William CHURCH
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and...
A Rubaiyat Miscellany - Omar Khayyám
A Rubaiyat Miscellany - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry
The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet's work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of the Rubaiyat, yet others contented...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay - Agnes C. LAUT
Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: Early Modern
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan,...
Lord Kitchener - G. K. Chesterton
Lord Kitchener - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exceptionally a friend of Mahomedans.” (Summary quoted from Gilbert Keith Chesterton)...
The Angel of the Revolution - George GRIFFITH
The Angel of the Revolution - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published in Pearson's Weekly and was...
The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out - Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Family / General
The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of children's novels, penned under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope. The first of 72 books was published in 1904, the last in...
Blackfeet Indian Stories - George Bird GRINNELL
Blackfeet Indian Stories - George Bird GRINNELL
- Author: George Bird GRINNELL
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were used as beasts of burden to carry...
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2) - William Le Queux
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2) - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A mysterious burgary of the British Consulate at Leghorn, coupled with the even more mysterious visit of an English yacht, leads to a trail of espionage and underground criminal activity that carries to reader to London, to Scotland, and ultimately...
In Freedom's Cause - G. A. Henty
In Freedom's Cause - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotland's independence. (Summary by Annise)...
Other Things Being Equal - Emma WOLF
Other Things Being Equal - Emma WOLF
- Author: Emma WOLF
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more important, duty or love? (Summary by...
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls - Alfred John Church
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls - Alfred John Church
- Author: Alfred John Church
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. The story then continues to include his quest to rejoin his wife and family of whom he has been separated from...
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand? - Walt Whitman
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand? - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 29th, 2007....
Spring Song of the Swallow - Marietta Holley
Spring Song of the Swallow - Marietta Holley
- Author: Marietta Holley
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! - Summary by Rachel...
The Wide, Wide World - Susan Warner
The Wide, Wide World - Susan Warner
- Author: Susan Warner
- Genre: General
"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react when she learns that the aunt with whom she was sent to live doesn't really care about her? Will she be able to make...
Mercenary - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
Mercenary - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text)...
On Generation and Corruption - Aristotle
On Generation and Corruption - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Nature
On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic...
