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The Duel (version 2) - Anton Chekhov
The Duel (version 2) - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libertine Laevsky absconds to the Caucasus with...
The Best Thing in the World - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Best Thing in the World - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Best Thing in the World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 28th, 2010....
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - Edward Everett HALE
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - Edward Everett HALE
- Author: Edward Everett HALE
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. (Summary by Book Preface)...
Cardinal de Richelieu - Eleanor C. PRICE
Cardinal de Richelieu - Eleanor C. PRICE
- Author: Eleanor C. PRICE
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642), the dreaded red eminence, mentor and manager of Louis XIII, skilled in logistics, he subdued in battle the unruly Huguenot aristocracy, successfully resisted France's encirclement by the...
Germania - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Germania - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Antiquity
The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, literally The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire. Germania fits squarely...
Uncanny Tales - Various
Uncanny Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is collection of uncanny stories complied and curated by Cyril Arthur Pearson. The stories are fine ghost and horror stories, with all the ingredients to make it work: night, ghosts, unexplained deaths, and locked rooms. Summary by Carolin...
Mr. Justice Raffles - E. W. Hornung
Mr. Justice Raffles - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A. J. Raffles is a British gentleman thief of some renown who, in this, the hero's final adventure, ironically demonstrates a sense of morality by teaching a London East End loan shark a lesson. The book was later made into a movie, as well as a...
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1 - Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1 - 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. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to write a history of Florence....
Long Poems Collection 003 - Various
Long Poems Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 003: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length....
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter - Alice Turner CURTIS
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter - Alice Turner CURTIS
- Author: Alice Turner CURTIS
- Genre: Historical
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising, and things start to change....
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Plays / Comedy / Tragedy
Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in debt. And his best friend’s...
Summer's Ending - Andrew Lang
Summer's Ending - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. -...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 4) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 4) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: General
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole...
Sisters - Ada CAMBRIDGE
Sisters - Ada CAMBRIDGE
- Author: Ada CAMBRIDGE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recognition as Australia’s first woman poet of note, her longer term reputation rests on her novels. Overall she...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 010 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a woman who apparently has two husbands: A devoted English scholar and an abusive drunkard from the American...
Short Story Collection Vol. 039 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 039 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 039: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 10, Jan. 6, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 10, Jan. 6, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: 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, craft projects, and more for children. This...
Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. There she meets Tiktok, a wind-up mechanical man; a talking chicken,...
On the Shore - Susan Coolidge
On the Shore - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did. This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. - Summary by Rachel...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 061 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 061 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 61 features articles and essays on both current and timeless topics, ranging from whether marijuana is addictive (U.S. Gov.) to what constitutes...
Preludes of Poetry and Music - Irene CURTIS
Preludes of Poetry and Music - Irene CURTIS
- Author: Irene CURTIS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by American poet Irene Curtis. These poems were collected by friends and family after her death in 1916, at only 26 years of age. This book of poems is divided into two parts. The first is a collection of poems in...
Through the Wood - E. Nesbit
Through the Wood - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Through the Wood by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 11th, 2009....
The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.) - John Bagnell BURY
The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.) - John Bagnell BURY
- Author: John Bagnell BURY
- Genre: Antiquity
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire until Gibbon begins; from Augustus...
Jacob's Ladder - E. Phillips Oppenheim
Jacob's Ladder - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
This is a story about Jacob Pratt who “stood bond” for his brother and then lost all his money and was unable to pay his debts. Two years later his brother is finally able to restore him to an enviable financial position. Jacob rewards those who...
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside...
The Chestermarke Instinct - J. S. Fletcher
The Chestermarke Instinct - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from their bank. When Betty Fosdyke shows...
The Tavern Knight - Rafael Sabatini
The Tavern Knight - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his Puritan Entourage. (Summary by Ric Cornwall)...
The Spirit of Christmas - Henry van Dyke
The Spirit of Christmas - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
A short Christmas book by American author, educator, and clergyman Henry Van Dyke, including a short story, two essays, and two prayers for the season. (summary by Jan MacGillivray)...
Book of Concord Preface - Unknown
Book of Concord Preface - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Christian Book of Concord was published in 1580 as a collection of eleven documents: Three Ecumenical Creeds and eight documents from the Reformation Era. Here is the Preface to the entire work together with the Saxon Visitation Articles from...
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I - John Bagnell BURY
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I - John Bagnell BURY
- Author: John Bagnell BURY
- Genre: Antiquity
J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition was still being used as a college textbook in the late 1960′s. In the newer editions, a co-author rewrote...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Short Stories
This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and experiences shipwreck, mutiny, and...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
- Author: Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
- Genre: Contemporary
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein during his lifetime. He wrote it as a soldier and a prisoner of war during World War I. The slim volume (fewer than...
The Wasted Day - Robert F. MURRAY
The Wasted Day - Robert F. MURRAY
- Author: Robert F. MURRAY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published occasionally in periodicals. -...
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died shortly afterwards. Ethelberta (now...
Handbook of Nature-Study, Part 1 - Anna Botsford COMSTOCK
Handbook of Nature-Study, Part 1 - Anna Botsford COMSTOCK
- Author: Anna Botsford COMSTOCK
- Genre: Science / Nature
Handbook of Nature-Study was written by Anna Botsford Comstock during an era of growing societal concern for man's treatment of the natural world. Out of this concern grew the nature study movement which sought to teach science to school children...
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne - Guy de Maupassant
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off." But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects, she finds herself the center of a...
Lady Sybil's Choice - Emily Sarah HOLT
Lady Sybil's Choice - Emily Sarah HOLT
- Author: Emily Sarah HOLT
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real historical character) is told through the eyes of his fictional sister, Elaine. Guy travels to the Holy Land...
The Conscientious Deacon - Vachel Lindsay
The Conscientious Deacon - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Conscientious Deacon by Vachel Lindsay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013. Vachel Lindsay described this poem as "a song to be syncopated as you please". According to Wikipedia he...
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The first volume is on Astronomy written by Waldemar Kaempffert. This book briefly discusses the evolution of astronomical beliefs and the development of instruments and progress of...
