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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short works
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)...
The Short Line War - Samuel Merwin
The Short Line War - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: General Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
"The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-Webster, stands for two healthy-minded young men who have put their heads together and who have mapped out this...
The Ramayan, Book 5 - Valmiki
The Ramayan, Book 5 - Valmiki
- Author: Valmiki
- Genre: Poetry / Religion / Other religions
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata. It is the story of Rama,...
Bible (WEB) NT 02: The Good News According to Mark - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) NT 02: The Good News According to Mark - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: Bibles
Mark's Gospel is certainly the shortest, and possibly the earliest of the four canonical gospels. It covers Jesus' life from his Baptism to his Resurrection, but concentrates particularly on the week leading up to the Crucifixon. It appears to have...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure
A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger children. She meets all of the strange talking animals (and they are just as rude or silly as usual) and eats...
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
- Author: Jane PORTER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children, but is equally enjoyable for adults....
Holy in Christ - Andrew Murray
Holy in Christ - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
In introducing this book, which Andrew Murray sub-titled “Thoughts on the Calling of God’s Children to Be Holy as He is Holy”, I can do no better than to quote from the author’s own Preface: “It has been my earnest desire that I might be a helper of...
The Mystery at Dark Cedars - Edith LAVELL
The Mystery at Dark Cedars - Edith LAVELL
- Author: Edith LAVELL
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Mary Louise and her friend Jane take on a mystery of dark secrets at Cedar Hall that threatens a young girl's sanity and trust. The first in a series featuring these charming young detectives. (Summary by CariJS)...
The Outlet - Andy ADAMS
The Outlet - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana. Expect the same quality writing as found in other books by Adams....
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories - Owen Wister
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / Westerns
This is the fifth published book of Owen Wister, author of the archetypical Western novel, The Virginian. Published in 1900, it comprises eight Western short stories. (Summary by David Wales)...
Short Poetry Collection 012 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Options - O. Henry
Options - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
O. Henry needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonderful examples of his word sculpting art. They include: "The Rose of Dixie"; The Third Ingredient; The Hiding of...
An Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament - George Lovell CARY
An Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament - George Lovell CARY
- Author: George Lovell CARY
- Genre: Language learning
A collection of lessons (primarily in grammar) for New Testament Greek (also known as Koine) collected by a professor at Meadville Theological School of Pennsylvania. There are over 80 short lessons, each covering an aspect of verbs, nouns, etc....
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3) - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3) - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Epics / Christian Fiction
This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As the white horse mark must be...
The Mill Mystery - Anna Katharine Green
The Mill Mystery - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mill. Almost immediately, rumors of suicide begin to circulate. But was it suicide? How could a devout man of...
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by Dickens' birthday on February 7th...
That Christ Is One - Cyril of Alexandria
That Christ Is One - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Religion
Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon (451). Assuming the mantle of the Cappadotian fathers, he answered the auguments of Nestorius who had...
International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories - Various
International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de Balzac, Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo and more. Compiled and translated by Francis J. Reynolds. - Summary...
Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect - Edwin WAUGH
Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect - Edwin WAUGH
- Author: Edwin WAUGH
- Genre: Poetry
A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for secretarial work and began his literary career in 1852. His first dialect poem, 'Come whoam to thi' childer...
The First Book of Adam and Eve - Rutherford Hayes PLATT
The First Book of Adam and Eve - Rutherford Hayes PLATT
- Author: Rutherford Hayes PLATT
- Genre: Religion
The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan is a Christian pseudepigraphical work found in Ge'ez, translated from an Arabic original and thought to date from the 5th or 6th century AD. It was first translated from the Ethiopic version into German by...
The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments - Walter Ferdinando GREW
The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments - Walter Ferdinando GREW
- Author: Walter Ferdinando GREW
- Genre: *Non-fiction
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry sewing machine factory in 1868 to its transformation into one of the countries most important industries. A...
Cupid's Darts - Anonymous
Cupid's Darts - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Cupid's Darts by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 12, 2012. To celebrate the somewhat silly holiday of Valentine's Day, I've selected this somewhat silly poem, which first...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
In this children's classic, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm full of talking creatures. She attends a never-ending tea party and plays croquet at the court of the anthropomorphic playing cards. (Summary...
Fundamentals of Prosperity - Roger BABSON
Fundamentals of Prosperity - Roger BABSON
- Author: Roger BABSON
- Genre: Business & Economics
What these principles are and whence they come to us. "The fact is, we have become crazy over material things. We are looking only at the structure above ground. We are trying to get more smoke from the chimney. We are looking at space instead of...
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of...
Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the Loring wealth. Even the manor house will have to go to pay their debts.Then a chance encounter with the King...
A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians - G. Campbell Morgan
A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians - G. Campbell Morgan
- Author: G. Campbell Morgan
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
G. Campbell Morgan was one of the leading evangelical preachers of his day. He began preaching at age 13 and by age 26 was teaching at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to England in 1904 to become pastor at Westminster...
The Shortstop - Zane Grey
The Shortstop - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Sports Fiction
Zane Grey (Pearl Zane Gray) born in 1872 in Zanesville, Ohio was best known for his western stories, most notably Riders Of The Purple Sage which has been filmed four times, the last in 1996 starring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Among his other...
Short Poetry Collection 156 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 156 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2016....
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps - Arthur Paul HARPER
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps - Arthur Paul HARPER
- Author: Arthur Paul HARPER
- Genre: Undefined
“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be called semi-tropical vegetation, - it was difficult to believe that we were a mile and a half up and 300 ft....
Madame Midas - Fergus Hume
Madame Midas - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne, Australia...
The Life of Cicero, Vol. I - Anthony Trollope
The Life of Cicero, Vol. I - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero...
A Honeymoon in Space - George GRIFFITH
A Honeymoon in Space - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Science Fiction
Miss Lilla Zaidie Rennick is on a trans-Atlantic trip to England, she is supposed to marry Marquis of Byfleet, son of the Duke of Duncaster in a month's time. But her plans are about to change when Lord Redgrave comes along side in the Astronef, a...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028 - 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....
Soul Food - George Douglas WATSON
Soul Food - George Douglas WATSON
- Author: George Douglas WATSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
A guide for Christians to walk a godly life. Covering various practical and spiritual topics.This project was proof listened by Guero and Laura Victoria....
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
"If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen Barnet." "Of course the inevitable...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison" and Washington's "Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission (1783)." Other topics in history and...
Indian Summer (version 2) - William Dean Howells
Indian Summer (version 2) - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans abroad were staples of the...
God's Country—And the Woman - James Oliver Curwood
God's Country—And the Woman - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the...
An Anonymous Story - Anton Chekhov
An Anonymous Story - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In "An Anonymous Story," Chekhov continues to explore his favorite themes of superfluous men, ironic rakes, exploited women, and the dangers of social conventions to human happiness. The Anonymous Narrator is a feckless, would-be revolutionary who...
