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Trains at Work - Mary Elting Folsom
Trains at Work - Mary Elting Folsom
- Author: Mary Elting Folsom
- Genre: General
This is a wonderful children's book about trains, specifically those exciting steam engines that covered our country in the early 1900's. It describes what it was like to ride in them, work in them, repair them, fix the tracks, repair 'hot boxes'...
Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
- Author: Herbert Spencer
- Genre: Business & Economics
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath Herbert Spencer. In it, he uses the term "fitness" in applying his ideas of Lamarckian evolution to society,...
Herodotus' Histories Vol 1 - Herodotus
Herodotus' Histories Vol 1 - Herodotus
- Author: Herodotus
- Genre: Antiquity
The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC....
Jacob's Room (version 2) - Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room (version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose repeatedly shifts its point of...
The Boys Life of Mark Twain - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Boys Life of Mark Twain - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1910. Six years later Paine published this "story of a man who...
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1 - Various
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Humor
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington...
The Adventures of Bob White - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Bob White - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Adventures of Bob White is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Bob White and Mrs. Bob White make a new home near the Old Briar Patch where they become neighbors with Peter Rabbit. We...
Astounding Stories 04, April 1930
Astounding Stories 04, April 1930
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
The fourth issue of Astounding Stories continues Ray Cummings serial "Brigands of the Moon", along with pulp sci-fi stories by Capt. S. P. Meek, Anthony Pelcher and other authors. - Summary by Alan Winterrowd...
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Science Fiction
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into...
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Whither Thou Goest - William Le Queux
Whither Thou Goest - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he persuaded an influential friend in...
The Expressman and the Detective - Allan PINKERTON
The Expressman and the Detective - Allan PINKERTON
- Author: Allan PINKERTON
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished...
Clementina - A. E. W. Mason
Clementina - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way across Europe to marry James Stuart, the Catholic pretender to the British throne, Princess Maria Clementina...
Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann
- Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
- Genre: Poetry
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for...
The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: General Fiction
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the...
Wet Magic (version 2) - E. Nesbit
Wet Magic (version 2) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Are mermaids real? Well of course they are! Just ask the four very English children who, when on vacation by the sea, find out about one being held in a circus and, since 'they die in captivity' decide on a daring midnight rescue. Is she a real...
Charlie and His Kitten Topsy - Helen Hill
Charlie and His Kitten Topsy - Helen Hill
- Author: Helen Hill
- Genre: Family
A darling story of little Charlie and his adventures with cats and kittens and how he became many things. Also how the kitten Topsy, unhappy with being a kitten and having his face washed, tries different life styles with different animals but...
Harmonics - William Vaughn Moody
Harmonics - William Vaughn Moody
- Author: William Vaughn Moody
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment...
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has offered to light the town with a new gas, but actually has...
The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn
The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there is a lot of gold. He then dies. Some...
Lyrics of Earth - Archibald Lampman
Lyrics of Earth - Archibald Lampman
- Author: Archibald Lampman
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of nature poetry by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman. Lampman is considered one of the most distinguished poets of his time, and is still widely read today. - Summary by Carolin...
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job...
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD - Robert F. Pennell
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD - Robert F. Pennell
- Author: Robert F. Pennell
- Genre: History
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD. This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools and academies, of a short and clear...
Favourite Chapters Collection 001 - Various
Favourite Chapters Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderful clarity with which great ideas are expressed, and still others because the reader did a wonderful job....
Hallel (Psalms 113-118) (JPS) - Jewish Publication Society of America
Hallel (Psalms 113-118) (JPS) - Jewish Publication Society of America
- Author: Jewish Publication Society of America
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
Hallel (Hebrew: הלל "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for praise and thanksgiving that is recited by observant Jews on Jewish holidays. Summary from Wikipedia...
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)...
The Charm - Rupert Brooke
The Charm - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — "he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so often do. He was quite...
Hand and Ring - Anna Katharine Green
Hand and Ring - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigation is made and two equally plausible suspects are quickly unearthed. But is either guilty? And what role does...
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden - Willa Sibert Cather
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Westerns / Single Author Collections
Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A Wagner Matinee; Paul’s Case) are re-worked from an earlier collection, The Troll Garden, published in 1905....
Bible (ASV) NT 21: 1 Peter - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 21: 1 Peter - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament. It has traditionally been held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time as bishop of Rome. The letter is addressed to various churches in Asia Minor suffering...
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction - Alexander von Humboldt
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction - Alexander von Humboldt
- Author: Alexander von Humboldt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic philosophy. Many consider him to be the last of the great polymaths. After his death in 1859, the scientific...
Guy Fawkes; or, A Complete History of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 - Thomas Lathbury
Guy Fawkes; or, A Complete History of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 - Thomas Lathbury
- Author: Thomas Lathbury
- Genre: History
Though the particulars connected with the Gunpowder Treason may be perused in the general histories of the period, yet I am not aware, that any modern narrative of that dark design is to be found in a separate form. Many brief sketches have, indeed,...
The Hag - Robert Herrick
The Hag - Robert Herrick
- Author: Robert Herrick
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman writers, and by the poems of the late...
The Green Forest Fairy Book - Loretta Ellen Brady
The Green Forest Fairy Book - Loretta Ellen Brady
- Author: Loretta Ellen Brady
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. - Summary by Carolin...
On The Sea - Ivan Turgenev
On The Sea - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of On The Sea by Ivan Turgenev. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14, 2019. ------ Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and...
O Canada! - Robert Stanley Weir
O Canada! - Robert Stanley Weir
- Author: Robert Stanley Weir
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In celebration of Canada Day, 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of O Canada!. If you prefer English or French, spoken or sung, you will find a version that suits you here! This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of...
The Art of Letters - Robert Lynd
The Art of Letters - Robert Lynd
- Author: Robert Lynd
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essay on the literary scene of his day with critiques of poets and and poetry, ranging from Pepys to Walter de la Mare. He even examines criticism...
The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful...
The Reef - Edith Wharton
The Reef - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow and Anna’s family can threaten...
The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical...
