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Experiments in Plant Hybridisation - Gregor MENDEL
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation - Gregor MENDEL
- Author: Gregor MENDEL
- Genre: Life Sciences
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" presents his results of studying genetic traits in pea plants. It is the ground breaking work on inheritance, being the...
Aircraft and Submarines - Willis J. ABBOT
Aircraft and Submarines - Willis J. ABBOT
- Author: Willis J. ABBOT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military
"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Also a brief history of submarine use in commercial applications. A thoroughly enjoyable piece for anyone interested in the...
Creative Mind - Ernest Shurtleff HOLMES
Creative Mind - Ernest Shurtleff HOLMES
- Author: Ernest Shurtleff HOLMES
- Genre: Contemporary
This little book is an attempt to explain what each soul must discover for himself, that he stands in the midst of an eternal creative power which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back to him glorified all that he thinks. If it...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 005 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 005: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Myths of the New World - Daniel Garrison BRINTON
The Myths of the New World - Daniel Garrison BRINTON
- Author: Daniel Garrison BRINTON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Myths of the New World's full title describes it as.. " a treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America", an attempt to analyse and correlate scientifically, the mythology of the American Indians. Note: Brinton advocated...
A Ballade of Suicide - G. K. Chesterton
A Ballade of Suicide - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20, 2012. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published works on philosophy, ontology, poetry,...
Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy - William Walker Atkinson
Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy - William Walker Atkinson
- Author: William Walker Atkinson
- Genre: Psychology / Self-Help
This is a queer book. It is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science--an odd union, for the parties thereto are of entirely different temperaments. The marriage might be expected to...
To...As when with downcast eyes - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To...As when with downcast eyes - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To...As when with downcast eyes by Alfred Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 15th, 2010....
The Giaour - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Giaour - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Poetry / Romance
"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaour" proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially. (Summary by...
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope - Anthony Trollope
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-deprecating tone is at times hilarious and at times piteously moving. His detailed descriptions of his writing...
Timaeus - Plato
Timaeus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
"Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man..."...
The True Vine - Andrew Murray
The True Vine - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Andrew Murray's True Vine is a thirty-one day devotional focusing on Christ's Parable of the Vine and the Branches in John 15. The devotional for each day, though short, elaborates and expounds upon John 15, providing spiritual insight along the...
The Open Door and The Portrait - Margaret O. Oliphant
The Open Door and The Portrait - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
Two stories "of the seen and unseen" with mysterious occurrences by Margaret O. Oliphant, originally published in 1881. (Summary by Gesine)...
Half Hours With the Lower Animals - Charles HOLDER
Half Hours With the Lower Animals - Charles HOLDER
- Author: Charles HOLDER
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 90% of the animal species on earth are invertebrates, i.e., they have no backbone....
The Sex Life of the Gods - Michael KNERR
The Sex Life of the Gods - Michael KNERR
- Author: Michael KNERR
- Genre: Erotica / Science Fiction
Beth Danson was about twenty-five and, besides her deep auburn-brown hair and lovely face, she boasted an equally attractive body. He found himself captivated by the warm thrust of her breasts beneath the silk blouse. The clear milk of her flesh, at...
Northwest! - Harold BINDLOSS
Northwest! - Harold BINDLOSS
- Author: Harold BINDLOSS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Northwest! takes place in western Canada, primarily western Alberta and British Columbia. The story revolves around Jimmy not being sure whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he and some friends were out hunting one day. Not...
Rose O' The River - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rose O' The River - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: General Fiction
Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from Boston, tells her that her love is ruining Stephen's life. A cute coming-of-age novel. (Summary by Charlotte...
The Autobiography of an Electron - Charles R. GIBSON
The Autobiography of an Electron - Charles R. GIBSON
- Author: Charles R. GIBSON
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Science
"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very important part which we play in the workaday world. It was for this reason that my fellow-electrons urged me to...
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign - John ASHTON
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign - John ASHTON
- Author: John ASHTON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria's reign, to whom the remembrance of things, almost...
A Spaceship Named McGuire - Randall Garrett
A Spaceship Named McGuire - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does indeed have a 'brain'. Completely bewildered as to why the first six models of their supposedly perfect new ship...
A Man of Honor - George Eggleston
A Man of Honor - George Eggleston
- Author: George Eggleston
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-established. All goes well; the family relationships are as they should be, perhaps even better than expected. Unique...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Lanagan Amateur Detective - Edward H. HURLBUT
Lanagan Amateur Detective - Edward H. HURLBUT
- Author: Edward H. HURLBUT
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, who has the confidence of the chief of police and access to all sorts of levels of city...
Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl - Frederick Irving ANDERSON
Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl - Frederick Irving ANDERSON
- Author: Frederick Irving ANDERSON
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Frederick Irving Anderson was a New York newspaperman who had a second career writing mystery stories for the "slick" magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post. The Infallible Godahl is a collection of some of his first stories. Godahl is a clever...
That Affair Next Door - Anna Katharine Green
That Affair Next Door - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the place empty. Who was she and why was she in the empty house all alone?...
The Farmer's Bride - Charlotte MEW
The Farmer's Bride - Charlotte MEW
- Author: Charlotte MEW
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this edition, published in 1921, contains 11 more poems. Mew's poetry is varied in style and content, but manifests...
The King of the Golden City - Mother Mary LOYOLA
The King of the Golden City - Mother Mary LOYOLA
- Author: Mother Mary LOYOLA
- Genre: Religion
This charming allegory will bring to the heart of the child a deep love for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and an understanding of the graces received in Holy Communion. We follow with delight the little Dilecta in her meetings with The King; her...
Queen Lucia - E. F. Benson
Queen Lucia - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of...
Success - Rupert Brooke
Success - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Success by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 19th, 2009....
Alexander's Bridge (version 3) - Willa Sibert Cather
Alexander's Bridge (version 3) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Romance
Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by Willa Cather, published under the name Willa Sibert Cather. Heavily influenced by the works of Henry James, the book tells the story of bridge builder Bartley Alexander. Through his relationship with Actress...
Invaders from the Infinite - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
Invaders from the Infinite - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Author: John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Genre: Science Fiction
The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies. World after world was visited,...
Les Misérables Vol. 1 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 1 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by...
Mary Louise - L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym,then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote...
My Chinese Marriage - Mae FRANKING
My Chinese Marriage - Mae FRANKING
- Author: Mae FRANKING
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War I. Despite the socially unacceptable pairing the couple decide to tie the knot and forge ahead with an...
Passing - Nella Larsen
Passing - Nella Larsen
- Author: Nella Larsen
- Genre: General Fiction
Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her second novel published in 1929, she examines the troubled friendship between two mixed-race women who can...
In Flanders Fields - John MCCRAE
In Flanders Fields - John MCCRAE
- Author: John MCCRAE
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / *Non-fiction
Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their wive's challenge and...
The Whys of Cooking - Janet McKenzie Hill
The Whys of Cooking - Janet McKenzie Hill
- Author: Janet McKenzie Hill
- Genre: Cooking
An entertaining yet informative look at the history of Crisco, its place in the "modern" kitchen, basic recipes and how to set up your kitchen layout and types of meal service including "when you don't have a maid." - Summary by BettyB...
Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Miller ADYE
Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Miller ADYE
- Author: General Sir John Miller ADYE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale are...
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Andrew Lang
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was...
