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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2 - Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains stories adapted as episodes for the second...
The Mentor 2 - Various
The Mentor 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature, history and travel. The association published a magazine twice monthly, each dealing with a different topic...
The Beasts of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Beasts of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels.Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in1914, the novel was first published in book form byA. C. McClurg in 1916. In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton,...
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles - Francis Key HOWARD
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles - Francis Key HOWARD
- Author: Francis Key HOWARD
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national anthem about the "land of the free,"...
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental...
Thurley Ruxton - Philip Verrill MIGHELS
Thurley Ruxton - Philip Verrill MIGHELS
- Author: Philip Verrill MIGHELS
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elite hostesses. In order to draw them into her social circle, she allows all the famous and moneyed populous of...
Castles in the Air - Baroness Orczy
Castles in the Air - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her...
The Copper Princess - Kirk MUNROE
The Copper Princess - Kirk MUNROE
- Author: Kirk MUNROE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper mining inheritance against smugglers...
The Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland - Howard E. ALTEMUS
The Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland - Howard E. ALTEMUS
- Author: Howard E. ALTEMUS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once more puts on her beautiful dress of green, for then the flowers wake from their sleep and clothe the earth with beauty....
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918 - John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918 - John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN
- Author: John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose order on a shattered Italy, of the...
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus - James OTIS
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus - James OTIS
- Author: James OTIS
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature / Family
Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. The difference between the romance of the circus from the outside and the...
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: Early Modern
Kant's Prolegomena, although a small book, is indubitably the most important of his writings. It furnishes us with a key to his main work, The Critique of Pure Reason; in fact, it is an extract containing all the salient ideas of Kant's system. It...
When the Holy Ghost Is Come - Samuel Logan Brengle
When the Holy Ghost Is Come - Samuel Logan Brengle
- Author: Samuel Logan Brengle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
"The writer, Colonel Brengle, gives us not only of the fruit of an orderly and well-stored mind on the great subject before us, but— and this is the more important—he tells us of the actual work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of ordinary men and...
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public’s imagination that he is...
The Coo-ee Reciter - Various
The Coo-ee Reciter - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practice in addressing groups in public, but also provided models for the study of accent and elocution – vital...
Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series - John WESLEY
Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series - John WESLEY
- Author: John WESLEY
- Genre: Literary Collections / Christianity - Commentary / Christianity - Other
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last past. Every serious man who peruses...
A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity - John Bunyan
A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as his text Psalm 93:5, 'Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever,' and from it he presents true holiness...
Greenmantle - John Buchan
Greenmantle - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the...
The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell WRIGHT
The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Author: Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills,' who's called Dad Howitt. The backdrop storyline surrounds the pretty Samantha Lane, called Sammy, and her...
The Mysterious Island (version 2) - Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island (version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death...
Bible (KJV) 25: Lamentations - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 25: Lamentations - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Book of Lamentations is a series of mournful poems written by the Prophet Jeremiah as he saw the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah laments the desolation of this once great city, as well as the condition of the people, many of whom were once...
Hymn Collection 001 - Various
Hymn Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Music / Christianity - Other
Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns. All Glory Laud and Honor - Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans; Tune: St. Theodulph by Melchior Teschner; harmony by William H. Monk. Amazing Grace - Tune: New Britain by...
The Roll-Call - Arnold Bennett
The Roll-Call - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Roll-Call" is the sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy. This book concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George Edwin Cannon (he quickly dropped the surname Clayhanger), is an architect, in many ways representing the ambitions...
In the Fog - Richard Harding Davis
In the Fog - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called "The Grill," where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He stumbled upon a house where a double...
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the...
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2 - Andre Norton
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2 - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and...
Early Rising - John Godfrey Saxe
Early Rising - John Godfrey Saxe
- Author: John Godfrey Saxe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2010. The words "dutiful" and "pious" never applied to the aspiring satirist. Bored by his legal work, Saxe...
The Great Small Cat and Others - May E. SOUTHWORTH
The Great Small Cat and Others - May E. SOUTHWORTH
- Author: May E. SOUTHWORTH
- Genre: Animals
A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these tales have very sad endings. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2 - Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2 - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to write a history of...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories. This collection exemplifies Wilde's sharp wit and dark humour. Stories in this collection includeLord Arthur Savile's Crime,The Canterville Ghost,The...
It Is Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
It Is Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
- Author: Charles Reade
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to Australia to earn money enough to...
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid but fails to nurture and educate it after it comes to life. It wanders alone into a hostile world,...
The Amazing Interlude - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Interlude - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby afghan. Her beau’s name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that is just perfect for two and he will...
Opportunity - Walter MALONE
Opportunity - Walter MALONE
- Author: Walter MALONE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013. Walter Malone was born in DeSoto Count, Mississippi. He wrote 2 volumes of poetry before he was 20 years old....
The Underground Railroad, Part 1 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 1 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. "Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and their efforts to baffle the human and...
Polish Fairy Tales - A. J. GLINSKI
Polish Fairy Tales - A. J. GLINSKI
- Author: A. J. GLINSKI
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive times. They represent the folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 04, Nov. 25, 1879 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 04, Nov. 25, 1879 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works / General
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, and more for children. This fourth issue of...
A Hive of Busy Bees - Effie Mae Hency WILLIAMS
A Hive of Busy Bees - Effie Mae Hency WILLIAMS
- Author: Effie Mae Hency WILLIAMS
- Genre: Family
In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma and Grandpa's farm. They have great fun, and every night Grandma tells them a story about a different kind of bee such as Bee Kind, Bee Polite, and Bee Honest that stings people who aren't honest....
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 5 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 5 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Book 5 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 7:25 - 8:43. However, St Cyril was working with a New Testament manuscript which did not include what we now refer to as John 7:53 - 8:11. (The Reader)...
