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An Unfinished Story - Richard Harding Davis
An Unfinished Story - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Romance
A very congenial dinner party is ongoing. Among the distinguished guests are also one author and one painter, who have just been told that their work does not reflect reality. Their work is good, of course, but reality is different than in the...
The Mayor's Wife - Anna Katharine Green
The Mayor's Wife - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is to be the companion to the Mayor's wife. The Lady is unhappy, and the reason for her grave unhappiness is...
The Forgotten Planet - Murray Leinster
The Forgotten Planet - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects and plants grew to gigantic...
Masters of Space - E. E. Smith
Masters of Space - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place--could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All? (Summary by Gutenberg)...
Damon and Delia - William GODWIN
Damon and Delia - William GODWIN
- Author: William GODWIN
- Genre: Romance
Damon and Delia fall in love instantly. Unfortunately, Damon is promised to another. Can true love prevail? Damon and Delia is a romance that is a bit tongue in cheek. It was penned on commission by William Godwin, political philosopher and writer,...
What Sami Sings With The Birds - Johanna Spyri
What Sami Sings With The Birds - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Old Mary Ann has done her best to bring up her son on her own. Like other relatives, her son has a longing to travel off over the mountains. Mary Ann goes with him. Later on her son marries, but loses his wife after she gives birth to their son....
Around the Wicket Gate - Charles H. Spurgeon
Around the Wicket Gate - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Millions of men are in the outlying regions, far off from God and peace; for these we pray, and to these we give warning. But just now we have to do with a smaller company, who are not far from the kingdom, but have come right up to the wicket gate...
Marvels of Scientific Invention - Thomas W. CORBIN
Marvels of Scientific Invention - Thomas W. CORBIN
- Author: Thomas W. CORBIN
- Genre: Technology & Engineering
This is a chronicle of the 19 most interesting inventions of the early 20th century. Some of the inventions are still in use and of considerable impact today, while others are examples of the strong belief in progress prevalent at the time would...
Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Poetry
The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If we add in forerunners Burns and Blake, we have perhaps an unmatchable collection of writers for any era. Of...
X Y Z - A Detective Story - Anna Katharine Green
X Y Z - A Detective Story - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or with attendant circumstances...
The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Tragedy
The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC. It was long thought to be the earliest surviving play by Aeschylus due to the relatively...
The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R. Stockton
The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of nine enchanting short stories filled with curious beasts and unexpected endings. Included are The Bee-Man of Orn; The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Queen's Museum; Christmas Before Last: Or, The Fruit of...
The Amateur - Richard Harding Davis
The Amateur - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist in finding people, Mr. Ford agrees to help her in her quest. However, something appears to be not quite...
To His Coy Mistress (version 2) - Andrew MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress (version 2) - Andrew MARVELL
- Author: Andrew MARVELL
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the...
The Sins of Hollywood - Ed ROBERTS
The Sins of Hollywood - Ed ROBERTS
- Author: Ed ROBERTS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable hotbed of crime, licentiousness, and moral transgression. THE SINS OF HOLLYWOOD, published in May 1922, is...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
Short Poetry Collection 189 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 189 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2019....
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund BURKE
- Author: Edmund BURKE
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative and classical liberal...
A Little Maid of Province Town - Alice Turner CURTIS
A Little Maid of Province Town - Alice Turner CURTIS
- Author: Alice Turner CURTIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so that she can be reunited with her soldier father. Will she succeed in carrying an important message from...
A Budget of Christmas Tales - Various
A Budget of Christmas Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories
This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent feature. - Summary by Carolin...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 7) - L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 7) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out. Summary by L. Frank Baum...
Michael Angelo's "Dawn" - Margaret Steele Anderson
Michael Angelo's "Dawn" - Margaret Steele Anderson
- Author: Margaret Steele Anderson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Michael Angelo's "Dawn" by Margaret Steele Anderson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 10, 2019. ------ Dawn is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, executed for the...
War Is Kind (Collection) - Stephen Crane
War Is Kind (Collection) - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: Poetry
Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in The Red Badge Of Courage. Unlike that book, this collection leaves the battlefield itself behind to explore...
Master Flea - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Master Flea - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's...
Upper Room: Being a Few Truths for the Times - J. C. Ryle
Upper Room: Being a Few Truths for the Times - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Ryle became the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool during a volatile time for the Church of England. Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of Ritualism. He was a writer, pastor and an evangelical preacher. Among his...
Through the Fray - G. A. Henty
Through the Fray - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Ned Sankey is a quick-tempered, strong-willed boy during the Luddite riots in Yorkshire. The happy times at the beginning of the story are soon marred by the death of his father. From there things only get worse. When things take a turn for the...
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery WILLIAMS
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery WILLIAMS
- Author: Margery WILLIAMS
- Genre: Children's Fiction
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day... Written in 1922, The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real is the tale of a sweet unassuming toy rabbit who questions what it is to live and to love. It was the first children's title written by...
Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories of adventure, sometimes with only a tinge of science, this magazine was to host and nurture many science...
Anne Severn and the Fieldings - May Sinclair
Anne Severn and the Fieldings - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literature from another era entirely. There is romance in “Anne Severn & the Fieldings,” but it’s romance of the...
Bible (YLT) 14: 2 Chronicles - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 14: 2 Chronicles - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Rather than repeating the vast geneaology of King David found in the First Book of The Chronicles, the Second Book of The Chronicles recounts the rulership of the kings descended from him, namely, from his son Solomon to the evil king Zedekiah...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Poetry
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c - that there is always at least one monologue...
Misalliance - George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Plays
Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic examination of the romantic entanglements of a varied group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend. Most of the romantic interest centers on the host's...
Short Science Fiction Collection 046 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 046 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville is a 1908 young-adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. It is the third volume in "the successful Aunt Jane Series," following Aunt Jane's Nieces and Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad....
The Long Shadow - B. M. Bower
The Long Shadow - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Westerns
Billy Boyle, tough, honest, plain dealing, is at home on the range. He knows cattle and horses better than most. Alexander P. Dill, the merchant from Michigan, knows little of livestock and needs Billy’s help to make it in the business. Billy is...
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning. (Summary...
The Lost Princess of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Lost Princess of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Oh My Goodness !!! Princess Ozma is missing and no one can find her. The whole kingdom of OZ is upset and our heroes must set out to brave many dangers and adventures to search for their beloved girl ruler. When Princess Ozma mysteriously...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - Unknown
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains. Consists of: The Great Stone Face, written in 1850 and revolves around the 'Old Man of the Mountain (Cannon Mtn.) in New...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 014 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 014 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works / Anthologies
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 014: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
