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The Open Library - Brewster KAHLE
The Open Library - Brewster KAHLE
- Author: Brewster KAHLE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was invited to the launch, and produced audio recordings for "An International Episode," and "Old Christmas,"...
The American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad - Various
The American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An anonymous correspondent in 1868-69 sent in these seven articles about life in the far West of the United States....
Sunset in the Tropics - James Weldon Johnson
Sunset in the Tropics - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of "Sunset in the Tropics." This is the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 10, 2014. The author of this poem, James Weldon Johnson, served as U. S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, was an early leader...
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 - Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 - Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- Genre: Tragedy
Tamburlaine the Great is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a...
Helen's Babies - John HABBERTON
Helen's Babies - John HABBERTON
- Author: John HABBERTON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days while she and her husband are out of town. Helen says, "The children won't give you the slightest trouble;...
The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper
The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist who actually is a spy for George...
The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border - Gerald BRECKENRIDGE
The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border - Gerald BRECKENRIDGE
- Author: Gerald BRECKENRIDGE
- Genre: Children's Fiction
When Bob and Frank get in touch with their friend Jack in New Mexico via radio telephony, a desperate cry for help sends the Radio Boys on an adventure on the Mexican Border. - Summary by Chris Thompson...
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors - Various
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became somewhat curious for the way the...
Kindness - Frederick William FABER
Kindness - Frederick William FABER
- Author: Frederick William FABER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Christianity - Other
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford scholar and Anglican priest since 1839, Faber converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845 following his mentor...
A Little Princess (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier in India, Sara was brought all the way to London in Victorian-era England for a formal education. At the upscale boarding school, Sara is forced to tolerate...
Common Sense - Thomas PAINE
Common Sense - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: Political Science
Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within three months, 120,000 copies are alleged to have been distributed throughout the colonies, which themselves...
The Promised Land - Mary ANTIN
The Promised Land - Mary ANTIN
- Author: Mary ANTIN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found comfort in their ancient traditions. When Mary Antin's father decided that keeping to his traditions did not...
The Orthodox Faith - Saint John of DAMASCUS
The Orthodox Faith - Saint John of DAMASCUS
- Author: Saint John of DAMASCUS
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Orthodox Faith is the classic epitome of the Early Greek Fathers. Writing just before the last of the truly Ecumenical Councils (787), he remains to this day, the last of the Eastern theologians whole-heartedly received by the West. This work,...
The Pharaoh and the Priest - Bolesław PRUS
The Pharaoh and the Priest - Bolesław PRUS
- Author: Bolesław PRUS
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably...
Mystical City of God, Volume 2 - Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
Mystical City of God, Volume 2 - Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
- Author: Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Mystical City of God is a book written in the 17th-century by the Franciscan nun, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. According to María de Ágreda, the book was to a considerable extent dictated to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary and regarded the...
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - Jules Verne
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction. Rather, it describes a voyage down the...
Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Anna Sewell
Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Anna Sewell
- Author: Anna Sewell
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Animals & Nature
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was "Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell." After its...
Emily Fox-Seton - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Emily Fox-Seton - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction
Have you ever wondered what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince? Have you ever asked yourself if it was really "happy ever after?" Actually, in this Victorian melodrama, it's not. 35-years-old Emily Fox-Seton, quite penniless and a...
The Harvester - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
The Harvester - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Romance
The Harvester is one of Gene Stratton-Porter’s romantic novels which combine a love of nature, high moral ideals and a good plot. This is the story of a young man who lives in the country side with his dog and other animals and grows herbs to sell...
Short Poetry Collection 038 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 038 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 038: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Red Flower - Henry van Dyke
The Red Flower - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012. Dr. Henry van Dyke was an American author, lecturer, ambassador and pastor. He was in charge of the committee...
The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece - Various
The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Antiquity
This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles,...
The Burning Secret - Stefan ZWEIG
The Burning Secret - Stefan ZWEIG
- Author: Stefan ZWEIG
- Genre: General Fiction
A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a European resort. Seeking an enjoyable way to pass the time, the man schemes to seduce the woman with the...
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: War & Military
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our brave and capable allies had sustained a...
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike - William Henry Pope JARVIS
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike - William Henry Pope JARVIS
- Author: William Henry Pope JARVIS
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Modern (19th C)
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
Child Whispers - Enid BLYTON
Child Whispers - Enid BLYTON
- Author: Enid BLYTON
- Genre: Single author
Enid Blyton's first published book; a short collection of poetry (28 poems and a short introduction.) - Summary by Peter Why...
Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses - Michael Field
Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses - Michael Field
- Author: Michael Field
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also because many of them contain...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters - Agnes C. LAUT
Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
This, volume 22 of the Chronicles of Canada series, describes the exploration of the Canadian Pacific coast, British Columbia, and Alaska. It includes accounts of Bering, Cook, Vancouver, Mackenzie, Fraser, and Thompson. - Summary by TriciaG...
The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson - Maud Wilder GOODWIN
The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson - Maud Wilder GOODWIN
- Author: Maud Wilder GOODWIN
- Genre: History
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile country and which offers a...
Short Poetry Collection 151 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 151 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015....
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 3 - Louis GINZBERG
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 3 - Louis GINZBERG
- Author: Louis GINZBERG
- Genre: Religion
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish Theological seminary from 1903...
Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays - Alice Meynell
Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
Sex - Henry Stanton
Sex - Henry Stanton
- Author: Henry Stanton
- Genre: Self-Help
Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is partly a self-help book, partly an attempt to relay the...
A Calendar of Sonnets (Version 3) - Helen Hunt Jackson
A Calendar of Sonnets (Version 3) - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote poetry, nonfiction and fiction and was a popular author in her own time. This sonnet sequence reviews the months of the year and demonstrates her poetic talent. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Maybe--Tomorrow - Jay LITTLE
Maybe--Tomorrow - Jay LITTLE
- Author: Jay LITTLE
- Genre: Erotica / Published 1900 onward
Maybe--tomorrow, by Jay Little (pseudonym for Clarence Lewis Miller) published in 1952* based in the confusing latter part of his teenage years, tells the story of the introverted and forlorn Gaylord LeClarie coming to terms with the world around...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (version 2 dramatic reading) - Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (version 2 dramatic reading) - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing...
Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings - Sarah Tyson Heston RORER
Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings - Sarah Tyson Heston RORER
- Author: Sarah Tyson Heston RORER
- Genre: Cooking
This is a book of recipes for ice cream, water ice, and other refreshments for all occasions. Though it has become much easier for us to make ice-cream as compared to when these recipes were written, the recipes will still make tasty treats today! -...
Last Poems - A. E. Housman
Last Poems - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Single author
"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which in the early months of 1895 I wrote the greater...
Hymns of the Christian Church - Various
Hymns of the Christian Church - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Music / Christianity - Other
A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some LibriVox volunteers read the hymns; others sung them. (Summary by Leon Mire)...
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Romance
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those...
