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The Vertical City - Fannie HURST
The Vertical City - Fannie HURST
- Author: Fannie HURST
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly. The Vertical City is a collection of six short stories by Fannie Hurst (American). Each story, tells in gritty, dramatic style, of ugly inner city...
A Ride Across the Peloponnese - George MACMILLAN
A Ride Across the Peloponnese - George MACMILLAN
- Author: George MACMILLAN
- Genre: Travel & Geography
In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends, George Macmillan, wrote a brief account of the party's ride across the Peloponnese. The account, without...
Maezli - Johanna Spyri
Maezli - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Children's Fiction
"Mäzli" may be pronounced the most natural and one of the most entertaining of Madame Spyri's creations. The atmosphere is created by an old Swiss castle and by the romantic associations of the noble family who lived there. Plot interest is supplied...
Sir Harry Wildair - George Farquhar
Sir Harry Wildair - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
This sequel to the Jubilee [The Constant Couple, or A Trip to the Jubilee] appeared at Drury Lane in 1701, and was almost as popular as its predecessor. The smartness of the dialogue, the witty comment upon the fashions of the hour, the movement of...
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: War & Military / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered,...
Wheels - The Fifth Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - The Fifth Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Anthologies
The Fifth Cycle of the Wheels poetry anthology was published in 1920 and contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Leah McTavish Coehn, Geoffrey Cookson, William Kean Seymour, John J. Adams, Sherard Vines, and Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell...
Poetry of Thomas Moore - Thomas Moore
Poetry of Thomas Moore - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry
The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Melodies" published between 1807 and 1834 with Sir John Stevenson, which consists of 130 of his poems set to music,...
Tales of English Minsters: Hereford - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
Tales of English Minsters: Hereford - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Author: Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Genre: History
This short book was originally written for children, though adults will also find it worthwhile. It tells interesting history of Hereford in western England, its cathedral, and its people. - Summary by david wales...
Countdown - Kurt BECKER. S. J.
Countdown - Kurt BECKER. S. J.
- Author: Kurt BECKER. S. J.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / General
The first flight to outer space became an actual fact – Mars would be the first stop. But before the spaceship took off, two insane enemies almost succeeded in preventing the departure. This science fiction story for teens was written by a Catholic...
The Great Taxicab Robbery - James H. COLLINS
The Great Taxicab Robbery - James H. COLLINS
- Author: James H. COLLINS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / True Crime
In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab.This factual account brings true crime of the early twentieth...
Sonnet on a Wet Summer - John Codrington BAMPFIELD
Sonnet on a Wet Summer - John Codrington BAMPFIELD
- Author: John Codrington BAMPFIELD
- Genre: Poetry / Sonnets / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Sonnet on a Wet Summer" by John Codrington Bampfield. This was the weekly poem for the week of July 1, 2012....
Pro Patria - Julia Caroline Dorr
Pro Patria - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of seven patriotic long poems by Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin...
Janet of the Dunes - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
Janet of the Dunes - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Author: Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Known primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in adult prose as well. Janet of the Dunes is one such departure wherein she masterfully takes us into the lives...
Blacky the Crow - Thornton W. Burgess
Blacky the Crow - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Blacky the Crow is a clever rascal who lives in the Green Forest and Meadow. He loves to play tricks on the other little people who are his neighbours, and is curious about Farmer Brown’s Boy. Blacky is always thinking about what is right and what...
Bible (DBY) NT 03: Luke - Darby Bible
Bible (DBY) NT 03: Luke - Darby Bible
- Author: Darby Bible
- Genre: Bibles
The Darby Bible consists of a translation of the New Testament by John Nelson Darby, originally published in 1867, and a translation of the Old Testament, included in later editions of the text, completed by Darby's students after his death. Summary...
The Latch Key of My Bookhouse - Olive Beaupre MILLER
The Latch Key of My Bookhouse - Olive Beaupre MILLER
- Author: Olive Beaupre MILLER
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
This is the final book in a six volume set of the "My Bookhouse" books. This final title in the series leaves off the format of the previous volumes and is geared towards the parent or teacher. The major part of the books deals with short...
Queen Elizabeth - Edward Spencer BEESLY
Queen Elizabeth - Edward Spencer BEESLY
- Author: Edward Spencer BEESLY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Queen Elizabeth the First, the last monarch of the Tudors. (Summary by Brendan Stallard)...
The House with the Twisting Passage - Marion St. John Webb
The House with the Twisting Passage - Marion St. John Webb
- Author: Marion St. John Webb
- Genre: Children's Fiction
When Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Abby, a caretaker in a grand old manor-house, she discovers a wonderful twisting passage on the second floor with an array of colourful characters living in the rooms along it – each of them with a story to...
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee MASTERS
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee MASTERS
- Author: Edgar Lee MASTERS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people perceive a particular...
English Costume - Dion Clayton CALTHROP
English Costume - Dion Clayton CALTHROP
- Author: Dion Clayton CALTHROP
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their boards; they gossip across the centuries,...
Your Invisible Power - Genevieve BEHREND
Your Invisible Power - Genevieve BEHREND
- Author: Genevieve BEHREND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Genevieve Behrend was a teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). Your Invisible Power, published in 1921, is her first and most famous book. It is a guide to the use of visualization and other...
The Private Soldier Under Washington - Charles Knowles BOLTON
The Private Soldier Under Washington - Charles Knowles BOLTON
- Author: Charles Knowles BOLTON
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Washington’s description of their sufferings at Valley Forge. This 1902 book by a Harvard University librarian...
The Love of Jesus to Penitents - Henry Edward Manning
The Love of Jesus to Penitents - Henry Edward Manning
- Author: Henry Edward Manning
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an Oxford-educated Anglican clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism after the Privy Council ordered the Church of England in 1850 to reinstate an heretical vicar. Manning was ordained a priest in the Roman...
North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the...
Short Poetry Collection 192 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 192 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2019....
Cocoa and Chocolate - Arthur William KNAPP
Cocoa and Chocolate - Arthur William KNAPP
- Author: Arthur William KNAPP
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Self-Help
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its creation, and the complex process of its maturation from a bean to the delicacy we all enjoy. This "little...
The Silver Horde - Rex Beach
The Silver Horde - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To...
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave - Henry BIBB
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave - Henry BIBB
- Author: Henry BIBB
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his...
The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls - Various
The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A charming collection of short stories for young girls, including The King's Daughter, The Old Brown House, A Story for School Girls, What One Lie Did, Two Ways of Reading the Bible, Courtesy to Strangers, Live for Something, and Jennie Browning....
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and...
Libussa - Johann Karl August MUSÄUS
Libussa - Johann Karl August MUSÄUS
- Author: Johann Karl August MUSÄUS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation to the throne of Bohemia, and how she must fight for her true love. Musäus' famous version of the story is...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - PATANJALI
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - PATANJALI
- Author: PATANJALI
- Genre: Philosophy
Yoga sutras by Patanjali is a seminal work in yoga, this book is more about control of mind and the true goal of yoga. The sutras are extremely brief, and the translation in neat English makes it very easy for people to understand the ancient...
The Stone - Ivan Turgenev
The Stone - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.This taken from his DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS translated by Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946) She...
Where the Path Breaks - Captain Charles de CRÉSPIGNY
Where the Path Breaks - Captain Charles de CRÉSPIGNY
- Author: Captain Charles de CRÉSPIGNY
- Genre: Romance
The soldier awakened from the brink of death eight months after his injury on the battlefield. As he slowly regained his senses and his memory, the face of a girl creeps into his mind, and he soon recalls that this girl had married him out of pity...
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of...
Stories of Great Composers for Children - Thomas Tapper
Stories of Great Composers for Children - Thomas Tapper
- Author: Thomas Tapper
- Genre: Arts / Biography & Autobiography
This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example. Here are links to the online...
My School Days - E. Nesbit
My School Days - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: School
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories about teachers, fellow pupils, the things that scared her most as a child (and even as an adult) and a vivid...
Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845 - Robert BURROWS
Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845 - Robert BURROWS
- Author: Robert BURROWS
- Genre: War & Military
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 1845 and January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands. Ostensibly triggered by the cutting down of the...
Winter Stars - Sara Teasdale
Winter Stars - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Pirates of Ersatz - Murray Leinster
The Pirates of Ersatz - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Bron is the offspring of infamous space pirates but instead of following in the family footsteps he decides to become an electronic engineer. Unfortunately, every time he tries to get out, something pulls him back in. This is a tongue-in-cheek space...
