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Told in the Coffee House - Cyrus ADLER
Told in the Coffee House - Cyrus ADLER
- Author: Cyrus ADLER
- Genre: Short Stories
In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are usually little more than rooms, with walls made of small panes of glass. The furniture consists of a tripod...
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an...
True Stories from History and Biography - Nathaniel Hawthorne
True Stories from History and Biography - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / General
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose,...
At the Bay - Katherine Mansfield
At the Bay - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: Short Stories
Katherine Mansfield was prominent Modernist writer of short fiction. This a ninety minute story from her collection of The Garden Party....
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, including when representative government is applicable and when not. He details appropriate functions of...
Other Poems, 1871-82 - Henry Kendall
Other Poems, 1871-82 - Henry Kendall
- Author: Henry Kendall
- Genre: Poetry
This is the short last book in Henry Kendall's collected poems. This book contains miscellaneous poems of the native-born Australian poet, written later in his life, including poems dedicated to other notable Australian writers, such as Adam Lindsay...
Choice Cookery - Catherine OWEN
Choice Cookery - Catherine OWEN
- Author: Catherine OWEN
- Genre: Cooking
Choice cookery is not intended for households that have to study economy, except where economy is a relative term; where, perhaps, the housekeeper could easily spend a dollar for the materials of a luxury, but could not spare the four or five...
Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A - Vol. 3 - Federal Aviation Administration
Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A - Vol. 3 - Federal Aviation Administration
- Author: Federal Aviation Administration
- Genre: Education
This audiobook is third and final volume of the Airplane Flying Handbook. This volume is chapter 16, Emergency Procedures. From the preface: "The Airplane Flying Handbook is designed as a technical manual to introduce basic pilot skills and...
Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading) - Lew Wallace
Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading) - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Thirty years later, Judah ben Hur accidentally looses a tile upon the head of the Roman governor and is...
The Country Wife - William WYCHERLEY
The Country Wife - William WYCHERLEY
- Author: William WYCHERLEY
- Genre: Comedy / Satire
One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century, which was rife with unremitting sexual intrigue and conquest....
Wedding Poems - Various
Wedding Poems - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!...
Anna Karenina, Book 6 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 6 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
The Gold of Fairnilee - Andrew Lang
The Gold of Fairnilee - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second fairy tale after Princess Nobody - an enchanting story with occasional Scottish dialect. Randal Ker, son of a Scottish...
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry
This book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton, originally published in 1922, contain 35 poems on a variety of subjects. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His younger brother, sweet-tempered...
Grimm Tales Made Gay - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Grimm Tales Made Gay - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.(Summary by Annise)...
Preferred Risk - Frederik Pohl
Preferred Risk - Frederik Pohl
- Author: Frederik Pohl
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Company insures you against everything. Everything except war, that is. But they've put an end to wars (or so they claim). The Company also controls everything. Including all the sources of weapons. The Company is dedicated to the happiness of...
Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament - M. R. JAMES
Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament - M. R. JAMES
- Author: M. R. JAMES
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Religious Fiction
M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not included in the Bible. (Some...
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 4 - Madison Cawein
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 4 - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Single author
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It falls into three sections: Poems of Mystery, Poems of Myth and Romance, and Song and Story. - Summary by...
Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts - Various
Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Performing Arts
This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have...
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia - Thomas BROWNE
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia - Thomas BROWNE
- Author: Thomas BROWNE
- Genre: Religion / Early Modern
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-portrait. In its day, the book was a European best-seller. It was published in 1643 by the newly-qualified...
Coppertop - Harold GAZE
Coppertop - Harold GAZE
- Author: Harold GAZE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also has two invisible brothers whom she created so as to not be alone while her parents travel for the Crown. The...
Short Story Collection Vol. 075 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 075 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Carolyn Wells, Egerton Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Stephen Leacock and others to bring you tales of mystery, poignant...
Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On - Pansy
Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Old Mrs. Solomon Smith considers herself "nothing but an ignorant old woman" who didn't have the advantages others did when growing up. However, those around her know that she's actually full of biblical wisdom and the experience of walking with...
Dash for Khartoum - G. A. Henty
Dash for Khartoum - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Travel Fiction / Historical Fiction
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses first refuses to help and instead...
Shakespeare and Music - Christopher WILSON
Shakespeare and Music - Christopher WILSON
- Author: Christopher WILSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Music
Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and composers have also created musical adaptations based on Shakespeare's plays. Composer Christopher...
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth - John Muir
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of ten shivered, and...
The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
When a young lady approaches Sherlock Holmes looking for help in finding out what happened to her father when he disappeared 10 years earlier, both Holmes and Watson are sent on a mission involving stolen treasure, service in colonial India and a...
The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante - but perhaps keeps the reader waiting too...
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - Isabella L. BIRD
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her...
Jeremy - Hugh Walpole
Jeremy - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Family
With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet English Cathedral town. There is the Jampot, who is the nurse ; Hamlet, the stray dog ; Uncle Samuel, who...
Hunting In Many Lands - Various
Hunting In Many Lands - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals
The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself to sport on the American continent. This second volume presents a number of interesting sketches written by club members who have hunted...
Personality Plus - Edna Ferber
Personality Plus - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronicling the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesney. Ferber achieved her first successes...
Bible (ASV) 28: Hosea - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 28: Hosea - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles / Religion
Hosea was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BCE. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament. We know practically nothing about the life or...
A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams - Stanley G. WEINBAUM
A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams - Stanley G. WEINBAUM
- Author: Stanley G. WEINBAUM
- Genre: Science Fiction
The first of these stories was originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories. It was followed four months later by a sequel, "Valley of Dreams" in the same magazine. These classic stories take us to Mars where we meet a Martian, or...
Bettesworth's Exultation - Jonathan Swift
Bettesworth's Exultation - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Bettesworth's Exultation Upon hearing that his name would be transmitted to posterity in Dr. Swift's works, by William Dunkin by Jonathan Swift. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 15, 2019....
Short Story Collection Vol. 061 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 061 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rebecca West, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Richard Harding...
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Modern
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible introduction to philosophy for the average shopkeeper in England in 1912. Despite its accessibility It has...
On Piety - Jean GUIBERT
On Piety - Jean GUIBERT
- Author: Jean GUIBERT
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Father Jean Guibert of the Society of St. Sulpice served as superior of the Catholic Institute of Paris. He wrote this short book, which bears an imprimatur, for both those who practice piety and those who disdain it. As noted in the preface to this...
The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - Frances Moore BROOKE
The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - Frances Moore BROOKE
- Author: Frances Moore BROOKE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Lady Julia, the daughter of the earl of Belmont, and Mr. Henry Mandeville are falling in love. Though Henry is like a family friend, this love is not welcomed because the lady Julia is promised to someone else (or so Henry thinks). When they'll...
