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Nero, the Circus Lion - Richard Barnum
Nero, the Circus Lion - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Nero lived in the jungle with his family, his mom and dad, his brother and sister. He liked to play with his friend Switchie, who tends to get Nero into trouble. One day, Nero's dad took him hunting, but instead, Nero gets caught in a trap. He ends...
The Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading) - Frederick Arnold KUMMER
The Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading) - Frederick Arnold KUMMER
- Author: Frederick Arnold KUMMER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings
(Written under the pseudonym, Arnold Fredericks.) Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and a viable career. But she soon becomes the target of a malicious stalker who begins sending her a...
The Star - Jane TAYLOR
The Star - Jane TAYLOR
- Author: Jane TAYLOR
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 24, 2013....
Letters of Two Brides - Honoré de Balzac
Letters of Two Brides - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade). The women became friends during their education at a convent and upon leaving began a life-long...
Four-Day Planet - H. Beam Piper
Four-Day Planet - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction
In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting. – Although first drafted in the...
The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fall in love" and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton and Alan Merrick. They do indeed fall in love,...
The Valley of Vision - Henry van Dyke
The Valley of Vision - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Christianity - Other
”Why do you choose such a title as The Valley of Vision for your book” said my friend; “do you mean that one can see farther from the valley than from the mountain-top?” This question set me thinking, as every honest question ought to do. Here is...
History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 3 - Gaston Maspero
History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 3 - Gaston Maspero
- Author: Gaston Maspero
- Genre: Antiquity
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” by E....
Jesse James, My Father - Jesse JAMES, JR.
Jesse James, My Father - Jesse JAMES, JR.
- Author: Jesse JAMES JR.
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what drove him to become a Confederate guerrilla during the Civil War; his life after the war and how he became a...
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued on Dickens' birthday, February 7th 2012, and...
The Benefactress - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Benefactress - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of marriage, scornful at the thought of leaning on a man for help and comfort, she thinks only of the...
The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors - Irving Berdine RICHMAN
The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors - Irving Berdine RICHMAN
- Author: Irving Berdine RICHMAN
- Genre: History
A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim Locke Group: Chronicles of America Series...
Summer (version 2) - Edith Wharton
Summer (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate advances of her guardian Mr....
Vairagya Shatakam - BHARTṚHARI
Vairagya Shatakam - BHARTṚHARI
- Author: BHARTṚHARI
- Genre: Poetry / Philosophy / Ancient
Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires again. It concludes saying how...
The Book of Ices, Ice Beverages, Ice-Creams and Ices - Mrs. H. Llewellyn WILLIAMS
The Book of Ices, Ice Beverages, Ice-Creams and Ices - Mrs. H. Llewellyn WILLIAMS
- Author: Mrs. H. Llewellyn WILLIAMS
- Genre: Cooking
Summer is around the corner, time to make ice cream! This volume contains tried and true recipes for all kinds of cold drinks and desserts to cool off on a hot summer day. Though published in 1891, these recipes can still sweeten this year's season....
The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Religious Fiction / Satire
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of the country. Because of this,...
The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 29, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Genre: Philosophy / Early Modern
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2) - Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2) - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is...
The Mystery Girl - Carolyn Wells
The Mystery Girl - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction appeared to make any sense. Was...
This Country of Ours, Part 1 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 1 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Reference / Early Modern
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 1: Stories...
The Rosary - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
The Rosary - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Author: Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Genre: Romance
"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she - alas - is very plain. Just as she decides to...
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 2, September 1902 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 2, September 1902 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View - George Vivian POORE
London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View - George Vivian POORE
- Author: George Vivian POORE
- Genre: Medical / Technology & Engineering
This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in January, 1889. One deals with sanitary issues in London. The other deals with medical issues, mainly through the lives and careers of physicians. Though ancients are included, the main...
Bible (Fenton) NT 04, 23, 01, 02: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: John, 1 John, Matthew, Mark - Ferrar Fenton Bible
Bible (Fenton) NT 04, 23, 01, 02: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: John, 1 John, Matthew, Mark - Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Author: Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Genre: Bibles
The ordering novelty in the New Testament is that it places the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John at the beginning before the Gospel of Matthew, thus placing the Acts of the Apostles immediately after the Gospel of Luke. Work on the...
Mental Fascination
Mental Fascination
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
This book looks at the Followers of the New Thought movement of the early 20th century who believed in the concept of "mind over matter," It introduces us to the mental fascination among animals . the rationale of fascination . experimental...
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading) - Charles GODDARD
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading) - Charles GODDARD
- Author: Charles GODDARD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Perils of Pauline is one of the first damsel in distress serials. The story is complete with undaunted hero, courageous damsel, unscrupulous villains galore, and other worldly interest. Before getting married, Pauline wants to experience the...
Canada: The Empire of the North - Agnes C. LAUT
Canada: The Empire of the North - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: History
Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. . . . All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the country's past, and how that...
A Year With the Saints - Anonymous
A Year With the Saints - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Go through the year in the footsteps of the saints. This book emphasizes one virtue for each month with quotes and stories from the lives of the saints to help teach and inspire that particular virtue in us. For January, Perfection; February,...
Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Genre: Single author
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker...
Dodo: A Detail of the Day - E. F. Benson
Dodo: A Detail of the Day - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Dodo is a young woman who enjoys belonging to the high society. At the start of the book, she is about to make an advantageous...
Molly Make-Believe - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Molly Make-Believe - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a 'ridiculous...
California - J. Tyrwhitt BROOKS
California - J. Tyrwhitt BROOKS
- Author: J. Tyrwhitt BROOKS
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally, he planned to enlist as a surgeon for the US Army during the Mexican war, but conflicts had ended by the...
John Marchmont's Legacy - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
John Marchmont's Legacy - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always "done her duty." However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in love with another woman, the malice...
The Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydney Morning Herald (1907-08) - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
The Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydney Morning Herald (1907-08) - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
- Author: SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
- Genre: Sports & Recreation
In early 1907 the world of Australian rugby was rocked by the news that a professional New Zealand All Blacks team was set to tour the northern counties of Engliand, where professional rugby had been a reality for more than a decade. The...
Kashtanka - Anton Chekhov
Kashtanka - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish dachshund-mix, whose name means 'little chestnut.' After her detestation of...
Bullets & Billets - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
Bullets & Billets - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Author: Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Genre: War & Military / Humor / Modern (20th C)
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, whose Alf, Bert, and Old Bill were forerunners to Bill Mauldin and his Willie and Joe...
Survivors of the Chancellor - Jules Verne
Survivors of the Chancellor - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hunger and thirst, shipwreck and mutiny…follow the passengers of The Chancellor as they descend from one layer...
Barbara Frietchie - John Greenleaf Whittier
Barbara Frietchie - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Poetry
This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)...
