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From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01 - Titus Livius
From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01 - Titus Livius
- Author: Titus Livius
- Genre: Antiquity
Ab urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius(Livy), an ancient Roman historian. The work covers the time from the stories of Aeneas, the earliest legendary period from before the city's...
The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel - Howard Pyle
The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Children's Fiction
David goes on a journey to the moon-garden where everything is beautiful and where he also meets Phyllis who is not like the other children in the garden. While he is allowed to play in this beautiful place for awhile, he at last finds out that he...
Herndon's Lincoln - William H. Herndon
Herndon's Lincoln - William H. Herndon
- Author: William H. Herndon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for Herndon's overriding determination...
A Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin - Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort
A Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin - Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort
- Author: Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort
- Genre: Christianity - Other
True Devotion to Mary is a treatise of what it means to have devotion to Our Lady. Montfort goes through the various aspects of this devotion explaining what is true devotion and outlining what is false devotion. The book also includes a series of...
The Ramayan, Book 3 - Valmiki
The Ramayan, Book 3 - Valmiki
- Author: Valmiki
- Genre: Poetry / 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,...
Linda Tressel - Anthony Trollope
Linda Tressel - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should marry him – entirely against...
Sunshine - Vachel Lindsay
Sunshine - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the Middle West. And we may permit...
Veronica - Johanna Spyri
Veronica - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Family Life
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertrude, who has a son of her own. The son, Dietrich, is learning how to become a saddler as his father before...
Airplane Boys in the Black Woods - E. J. Craine
Airplane Boys in the Black Woods - E. J. Craine
- Author: E. J. Craine
- Genre: Action & Adventure
“The Airplane Boys accidentally bump into a newmystery which is only solved after many pages ofexcitement in this seventh book of air adventures.”Excerpt From: E. J. Craine. “Airplane Boys in the Black Woods.”...
The Prophet (version 3) - Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet (version 3) - Kahlil Gibran
- Author: Kahlil Gibran
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into...
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1 - Unknown
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1 - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It...
Quatrain - Omar Khayyám
Quatrain - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012. This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A...
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 3: Ancient Achievements - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 3: Ancient Achievements - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: Antiquity
The third book in the Beacon Lights of History series, Lord discusses achievements such as the formation of laws, the development of the fine arts, ancient science, and key people such as Cicero and Cleopatra. Summary by KHand...
The Iliad - Homer
The Iliad - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Epics
The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the...
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
- Author: Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
- Genre: Medical / Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in...
War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack - Frank Benton
Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack - Frank Benton
- Author: Frank Benton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the "sidetrack." These were working cowpunchers with a subculture of their own who...
Marcia Schuyler (version 2) - Grace Livingston Hill
Marcia Schuyler (version 2) - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kate is to marry: handsome & respected David Spafford. But on the eve of the wedding, Kate elopes with...
Bible (KJV) 21: Ecclesiastes - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 21: Ecclesiastes - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The book of Ecclesiastes is a wonderful book. It tells how all man's doing is futile, if it is done in his own strength. The last two verses sum it up quite nicely: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his...
Manalive - G. K. Chesterton
Manalive - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all those streets gone skywards, and...
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland - Anna Matlack Richards
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland - Anna Matlack Richards
- Author: Anna Matlack Richards
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this unofficial sequel to Alice in Wonderland, a different Alice, a young American girl named Alice Lee (a huge fan of the original book), stumbles upon a magical door that leads to Wonderland. There, she meets familiar faces, like the Cheshire...
Short Science Fiction Collection 056 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 056 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought - Elizabeth Porter Gould
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought - Elizabeth Porter Gould
- Author: Elizabeth Porter Gould
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by the Boston poetess. Sections are nature, love, miscellaneous, sonnets and 'for my nieces and nephews'. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death - Franz von Dingelstedt
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death - Franz von Dingelstedt
- Author: Franz von Dingelstedt
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his friends, and some information...
Island Nights' Entertainments - Robert Louis Stevenson
Island Nights' Entertainments - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the...
Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives - George Müller
Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives - George Müller
- Author: George Müller
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Mr. Brooks, in this compilation, has endeavored to select those incidents and practical remarks from Mr. Müller's Narratives, that show in an unmistakeable way, both to believers and unbelievers, the secret of believing prayer, the manifest hand of...
Nippon - Alfred Noyes
Nippon - Alfred Noyes
- Author: Alfred Noyes
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven recordings of Nippon by Alfred Noyes. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 9th, 2007....
Kilmeny of the Orchard - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Kilmeny of the Orchard - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire -- and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia's finest...
Penguin Island - Anatole France
Penguin Island - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Satire
The novel (original French title -- L'Île des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908. These penguins are mistaken for humans by the 97-year-old priest, Father Mael, because of his bad eyesight. He baptizes them,...
Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain - Oliver Optic
Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Historical
The sixth and last volume of the Woodville stories contains the record of a mechanical, rather than a moral triumph, though the virtues of patience and perseverance are incidentally illustrated, and the "little captain" of the Woodville is always a...
A Book of Whales - Frank Evers Beddard
A Book of Whales - Frank Evers Beddard
- Author: Frank Evers Beddard
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Reference
A Book of Whales is a natural history of whales for the layman. - Summary by A. Gramour...
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the...
A Christmas When The West Was Young - Cyrus Townsend Brady
A Christmas When The West Was Young - Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Genre: Family Life / Westerns
Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales )...
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
- Author: Rees Howell Gronow
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful parliamentarian, and dandy. Gronow displays some...
Food Values - Dr. Albert Philip Sy
Food Values - Dr. Albert Philip Sy
- Author: Dr. Albert Philip Sy
- Genre: Science / Self-Help
A short pamphlet from WWI, a sequel of sorts to "Food Preparedness." It first describes basic nutrition and things to consider when choosing what foods to eat, then lists various foods and their amount of calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins,...
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
- Author: Captain Charles Johnson
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pseudonym.The real identity of the...
A Letter to Her Husband - Anne Bradstreet
A Letter to Her Husband - Anne Bradstreet
- Author: Anne Bradstreet
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Letter to Her Husband (Absent upon Public Employment) by Anne Bradstreet. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 24th, 2010....
Only a Ghost! by Irenæus the Deacon - Sabine Baring-Gould
Only a Ghost! by Irenæus the Deacon - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Baring-Gould's humorous observations on the various Christian sects to be found in "the most learned church in the most religious country in the world" (i.e., London in 1870) contains a challenge to Christians of today to focus on the substance of...
The Purple Flame - Roy J. Snell
The Purple Flame - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Two years after the conclusion of "The Blue Envelope", Marian is crossing the frozen Alaskan tundra alone with three reindeer in order to greet her unknown cousin in Nome. Patsy has traveled from Kentucky. Kentucky! How will she adapt to a frigid...
