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The String of Pearls (dramatic reading) - Unknown
The String of Pearls (dramatic reading) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett; Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to...
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral - Phillis WHEATLEY
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral - Phillis WHEATLEY
- Author: Phillis WHEATLEY
- Genre: Poetry
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary...
Black Ivory - R. M. Ballantyne
Black Ivory - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his,...
Ghosts (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by Kristingj) Cast: Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving: Rhonda Federman Oswald Alving, her son, a...
Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2) - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2) - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time of the Civil War. It also...
Louis Lambert - Honoré de Balzac
Louis Lambert - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: General Fiction
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostly in a school at Vendôme, it examines the life and...
The Westminster Alice - Saki
The Westminster Alice - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Satire / History / Political Science
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland , Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles, takes an Alice in Wonderland view of British politics, which Alice finds even stranger than events in...
New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his best work in the genre. The first and longest story stars Prince Florizel of Bohemia who appears in the later...
Postage stamps of war (1854-1914) - Douglas B. ARMSTRONG
Postage stamps of war (1854-1914) - Douglas B. ARMSTRONG
- Author: Douglas B. ARMSTRONG
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
A very brief introduction to postal stamps used and issued during times of war. The principal focus might be said to be placed upon the Great War which just erupted in Europe and across much of the globe. - Summary by KevinS...
The Little Colonel in Arizona - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel in Arizona - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Family
In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the mother's illness, have to move from Kentucky to Arizona. Joyce now has to take most of the responsibility for...
The Magic of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Magic of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure
L. Frank Baum's last beloved Oz book before his death, this story deals with the discovery of a powerful magic word by a young boy from Oz, who immediately is plunged head-first into adventure through his discovery. (Summary by Piper Hale)...
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves - Tobias Smollett
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Satire
Sir Launcelot Greaves goes around the country with his comic squire, trying to be a knight and perform good deeds. This novel is written in the style of Don Quixote by the author of The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker and other 18th century picaresque...
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Author: Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while later writers borrowed incidents...
The Return (de la Mare version) - Walter De la Mare
The Return (de la Mare version) - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his family and community, and his own sanity, when he experiences a sudden and mysterious "transformation". ( Summary...
A Pin - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Pin - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone" - Summary by Wikipedia...
A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man - Noah DAVIS
A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man - Noah DAVIS
- Author: Noah DAVIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The object of the writer, in preparing this account of himself, is to RAISE SUFFICIENT MEANS TO FREE HIS LAST TWO CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY. Having already, within twelve years past, purchased himself, his wife, and five of his children, at a cost,...
Passionate Shepherd to His Love (version 2) - Christopher Marlowe
Passionate Shepherd to His Love (version 2) - Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30, 2012. Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the...
The Alaskan - James Oliver Curwood
The Alaskan - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode....
Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum - Hiram CHASE
Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum - Hiram CHASE
- Author: Hiram CHASE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lunatic asylum. After his stay in the asylum, Hiram documents his experiences and those of other patients in...
The Appetite of Tyranny - G. K. Chesterton
The Appetite of Tyranny - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well...
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1 - Peter KROPOTKIN
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1 - Peter KROPOTKIN
- Author: Peter KROPOTKIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the nobility and had a military...
In A Subway Station - Sara Teasdale
In A Subway Station - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. - Summary by Wikipedia...
What I Believe - Leo Tolstoy
What I Believe - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Philosophy / Religion
"The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian...
The Soul of the Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
The Soul of the Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: History / Other religions
"We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. It teaches us to be thankful, to be united, and to love one another! We never quarrel about religion."...
The British Army From Within - E. Charles VIVIAN
The British Army From Within - E. Charles VIVIAN
- Author: E. Charles VIVIAN
- Genre: War & Military / History
This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales...
The Byzantine Empire - Edward FOORD
The Byzantine Empire - Edward FOORD
- Author: Edward FOORD
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it eventually fell. While sometimes...
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth - H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
Two stuffy English scientists, always looking to further their scientific knowledge, create a substance called Herakleophorbia, which in its fourth incarnation – known as Herakleophorbia IV – has the special ability of making things increase greatly...
From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life - Alfred Thayer MAHAN
From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life - Alfred Thayer MAHAN
- Author: Alfred Thayer MAHAN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Alfred Thayer Mahan, American historian and author, whose The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 became instrumental in the formation of naval strategy by many nations in the 20th century, here recounts his observations and experiences...
Yesterday Framed in To-day: A Story of the Christ, and How To-Day Received Him - Pansy
Yesterday Framed in To-day: A Story of the Christ, and How To-Day Received Him - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
What would have happened if Christ hadn't come to Israel 2000 years ago, but had come to North America at the end of the 19th Century? This story makes that assumption and paints a picture of what it might have looked like - how different members of...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2 - Thomas Stevens
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2 - Thomas Stevens
- Author: Thomas Stevens
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing England, France, Central Europe...
The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of a few of my personal favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen that I most loved as a child and still enjoy as an adult. The Emperor's New Clothes was funny from my earliest years because even then I could see that it poked...
Velvet Shoes - Elinor Wylie
Velvet Shoes - Elinor Wylie
- Author: Elinor Wylie
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 6th, 2009....
The Brethren - H. Rider Haggard
The Brethren - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtful man, and Wulf is the blue eyed warrior. They are both knights of England and they are both in love with...
The Song of the Lark - Willa Sibert Cather
The Song of the Lark - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction
Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go...
Our Old Nursery Rhymes - Alfred MOFFAT
Our Old Nursery Rhymes - Alfred MOFFAT
- Author: Alfred MOFFAT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
_Our Old Nursery Rhymes_ (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le Mair. You and your child can listen and sing along as you read the facsimile edition online from the...
The Mind And Its Education - George Herbert BETTS
The Mind And Its Education - George Herbert BETTS
- Author: George Herbert BETTS
- Genre: Education / Psychology
"We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material things about us; for we can see it, touch it, weigh it, or measure it. But how are we to discover the nature of the...
The Shadow - Arthur STRINGER
The Shadow - Arthur STRINGER
- Author: Arthur STRINGER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way. Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and poet. He published 45 works of fiction...
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories - Beatrix Potter
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories - Beatrix Potter
- Author: Beatrix Potter
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
What can we say about the delightful Beatrix Potter stories? Starting with the naughty Peter Rabbit and his mis-adventures, progressing through The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle whose funny name is just the start of the interesting things about her,...
The Emancipated - George Gissing
The Emancipated - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance
In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or regret. This book details their...
