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Driven Back To Eden - Edward P. Roe
Driven Back To Eden - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his family to the country, where they live off the land and breathe fresh air. - Summary by David Gore...
Frederick Douglass A Biography - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Frederick Douglass A Biography - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our time. He was born in 1818 in the...
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Genre: Romance
A tale of passion set in the bleak Yorkshire moors in mid 19thC, far from the Victorian uprightness, Wuthering Heights depicts the mutual love of Catherine and Heathcliff till destruction rends the narration; yet cruelty is only to be met with...
In the Pecos Country - Edward S. ELLIS
In the Pecos Country - Edward S. ELLIS
- Author: Edward S. ELLIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he wrote under dozens of pseudonyms, as well as under his own name, it is virtually impossible to know exactly...
The Old Adam - Arnold Bennett
The Old Adam - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midlands 'Five Towns'. Yet when he unexpectedly gains three hundred and forty-one pounds in a speculation on rubber...
The Lilac Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Lilac Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them...
Short Science Fiction Collection 018 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert - Frank HERBERT
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert - Frank HERBERT
- Author: Frank HERBERT
- Genre: Science Fiction
As the title indicates, here are three SF stories by Frank Herbert, Missing LInk, originaly purlished in Astounding SF, 1959; Operation Haystack, also published in Astounding SF 1959; and Old Rambling House, published in Galaxy SF 1958. - Summary by...
Short Poetry Collection 114 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 114 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2012....
The Tree-Dwellers - Katharine Elizabeth DOPP
The Tree-Dwellers - Katharine Elizabeth DOPP
- Author: Katharine Elizabeth DOPP
- Genre: School
Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first educators to encourage the incorporation of physical and practical activity into the elementary school...
The Mucker - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mucker - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to offer. Shanghaied and put into service upon a pirate’s vessel to kidnap an affluent business man’s daughter on...
Venus Boy - Lee SUTTON
Venus Boy - Lee SUTTON
- Author: Lee SUTTON
- Genre: Science Fiction
If you ever make a trip to the green planet of Venus, the first thing you'll see will be the fifty-foot high statue of Venus' greatest hero. It stands on the very top of towering New Plymouth Rock at the edge of the old colony of New Plymouth. Even...
Denslow's Three Bears - W. W. DENSLOW
Denslow's Three Bears - W. W. DENSLOW
- Author: W. W. DENSLOW
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their home, come to live with her at Grandmother's house. The recording can be enjoyed by itself, or you can read...
The Spoils of Poynton - Henry James
The Spoils of Poynton - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of Brigstock family. Mrs. Gereth fears...
The End of Summer - Madison Cawein
The End of Summer - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. - Summary by Wikipedia...
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay - Watkin TENCH
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay - Watkin TENCH
- Author: Watkin TENCH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Watkin Tench was an officer of the British Marines in the First Fleet to settle NSW. This is an interesting and entertaining account of his experiences during that time (Introduction by Tabithat)...
Miss Billy's Decision - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy's Decision - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
When Miss Billy closed, Miss Billy and Bertram were happily engaged. In this first sequel to Miss Billy will the path to wedded bliss run smooth or will misunderstandings and heartache cross their path? Find out in Miss Billy’s Decision! (Summary by...
Adeline Mowbray - Amelia OPIE
Adeline Mowbray - Amelia OPIE
- Author: Amelia OPIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to its name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of everything: sorrow, happiness, falsehood, truth, kindness, and mistakes. This novel is an exploration of the...
Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Poetry / Tragedy
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces that rule the Universe. As one of...
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin - Ralph CHAPLIN
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin - Ralph CHAPLIN
- Author: Ralph CHAPLIN
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, these activists...
The Blue Jar Story Book - Undefined
The Blue Jar Story Book - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Short works
This is a collection of 6 delightful stories about children by some of the best authors of the period: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgeworth and Alicia Catherine Mant. These stories are well written and although they feature children and their...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828) - John Quincy ADAMS
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828) - John Quincy ADAMS
- Author: John Quincy ADAMS
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
Poems of West and East - Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
Poems of West and East - Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
- Author: Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
- Genre: Poetry
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in...
Democracy in America Vol. I - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America Vol. I - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50) - 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...
Public Domain Hymns 01 - Various
Public Domain Hymns 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Music / Christianity - Other
"Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages (commonly referred to as "canticles") in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God. Many refer to Jesus Christ either directly or...
Confidence - Henry James
Confidence - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated,...
The Giant Crab And Other Tales From Old India - W. H. D. Rouse
The Giant Crab And Other Tales From Old India - W. H. D. Rouse
- Author: W. H. D. Rouse
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the first collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. There is a second entitled The Talking Thrush (LibriVox audio here ). Parents or those in loco parentis should be aware that as in all folk literature, in addition to...
Mother Nature (Dickinson) - Emily Dickinson
Mother Nature (Dickinson) - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Mother Nature by Emily Dickinson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 3, 2013 While Emily Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were...
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore CAREW
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore CAREW
- Author: Bampfylde Moore CAREW
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry...
Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War - Ambrose Bierce
Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a...
Evening Star - Edgar Allan Poe
Evening Star - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Poe's 200th birthday, January 19th, 2009....
Sybil, or the Two Nations - Benjamin DISRAELI
Sybil, or the Two Nations - Benjamin DISRAELI
- Author: Benjamin DISRAELI
- Genre: Romance
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England" question. That phrase was first used by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on Chartism, a working-class protest...
Confucian Analects - Confucius 孔子
Confucian Analects - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally "Classified/Ordered Sayings"), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker...
A Trace of Memory - Keith Laumer
A Trace of Memory - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
Legion was homeless and hungry and looking for a way to get to Miami when he crossed paths with Foster. Foster enlists Legion's aid in dealing with the mysterious light-beings called Hunters who he says have been chasing him, and also in recovering...
Barnaby Rudge (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Chester's son and Haredale's niece wish to marry, but their relatives oppose the union. A tale of love and intrigue set...
Anna Karenina, Book 8 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 8 - 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. In Book 8, Vronsky leaves for the Servian war, unable to live without Anna and hoping to die. Back at his farm with a...
The Pathway of the Pioneer - Dolf WYLLARDE
The Pathway of the Pioneer - Dolf WYLLARDE
- Author: Dolf WYLLARDE
- Genre: General Fiction
The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of "Nous Autres." They represent, collectively, the professions open to women of no deliberate training, though well educated. They are introduced...
Philoctetes - Sophocles
Philoctetes - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need...
The White Flag - John Hay
The White Flag - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State...
