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The Turn Of The Tide - Eleanor H. Porter
The Turn Of The Tide - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General
"What a joy! How exciting! Margret Kendall returned home, to her loving and equally beloved mother's arms after 4 years in the slums of New York City- where she endured unimaginable hardships. This hardship made the naturally brilliant...
Damned If You Don't - Randall Garrett
Damned If You Don't - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society with it's simplicity? Well usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But what if there really was...
Long Ago - Christina ROSSETTI
Long Ago - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2012. Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of...
Varied Types - G. K. Chesterton
Varied Types - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways...
Widdershins (Version 2) - Oliver ONIONS
Widdershins (Version 2) - Oliver ONIONS
- Author: Oliver ONIONS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. On...
How to Make a Man of Consequence - Mark LEMON
How to Make a Man of Consequence - Mark LEMON
- Author: Mark LEMON
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London,...
The Silence: What It Is, How To Use It - David Van BUSH
The Silence: What It Is, How To Use It - David Van BUSH
- Author: David Van BUSH
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Psychology / Self-Help
Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces sickness. Our bodies sometimes are instantly re-harmonized while in the Silence. In the Silence our minds become passive, open, free and loving, at which time the Infinite Master...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 026 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 026 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Bible (ASV) 34: Nahum - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 34: Nahum - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
Nahum prophesied, according to some, in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz (740s BC). Others, however, think that his prophecies are to be referred to the latter half of the reign of Hezekiah (700s BC). Probably the book was written in Jerusalem,...
Short Poetry Collection 186 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 186 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 34 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2018....
The False Faces - Louis Joseph Vance
The False Faces - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy Ekstrom alive after all, his...
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Author: Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Genre: Published before 1800
Published in 1766 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith's behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off outstanding rent and to release himself...
The Real Mother Goose - Anonymous
The Real Mother Goose - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
A heartwarming collection of nursery rhymes that will take you back to your childhood! (Summary by Allyson Hester)...
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of fellow anarchists and radicals of...
Industrial Conspiracies - Clarence DARROW
Industrial Conspiracies - Clarence DARROW
- Author: Clarence DARROW
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Self-Help
Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles, California. The man, the subject and the occasion makes it one of the greatest...
American Philosophy Collection Vol. 1 - Various
American Philosophy Collection Vol. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Philosophy
This collection of articles in early 20th Century American philosophy focuses on the topics of realism, experience, and ideas, with particular attention to the pragmatic naturalism of John Dewey. In tracks 1-5, Dewey responds to critics of his...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 018 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Marion Fay - Anthony Trollope
Marion Fay - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the young. The novel’s primary characters...
Floor Games - H. G. Wells
Floor Games - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Games
H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire other parents in their pursuit of quality time with the kids. While the raw materials available from hobby...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
John Dolittle, M. D., was once a famous doctor. But then he learned to talk Animal-Language, picked up several interesting pets, and gradually began to lose his patients. Finally the only patient who remains, the Cat's-Meat-Man, makes a suggestion -...
From the Easy Chair Vol. 2 - George William CURTIS
From the Easy Chair Vol. 2 - George William CURTIS
- Author: George William CURTIS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The second volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over...
Curiosities of Olden Times - Sabine Baring-Gould
Curiosities of Olden Times - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher's stone, written in Baring-Gould's own style. (Summary by Carolin)...
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity for Love finally comes, she is...
Athenaeum Souvenir - Various
Athenaeum Souvenir - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The Manchester Athenaeum was founded in 1837 as a society for the "advancement and diffusion of knowledge". This short collection of poems was published to raise money for the society's annual bazaar. The collection included contributions from...
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic - Charles William Chadwick Oman
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his little book is rather "a series of studies of the leading men of the century, intended to show the importance...
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very...
The Adventures of Sammy Jay
The Adventures of Sammy Jay
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
There's nothing that sly troublemaker Sammy Jay likes better than stealing corn - unless it's playing tricks on the other animals in the forest. Yet Chatterer the Red Squirrel would like to keep his corn, thank you very much, and while he's at it...
Throckmorton - Molly Elliot SEAWELL
Throckmorton - Molly Elliot SEAWELL
- Author: Molly Elliot SEAWELL
- Genre: Romance
This is a novel about the lives of the members of the Temple family and their connections in Tidewater, Virginia, in the Reconstruction era. The widow Judith Temple and her sister in law Jacqueline live quietly on the Temple plantation, when the...
Short Poetry Collection 073 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 073 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008....
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It - John PEELE
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It - John PEELE
- Author: John PEELE
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically without a penny, from Tarboro, North Carolina, to Tucson, Arizona; and thence to the stricken city of San Francisco,...
La Fuite de la Lune - Oscar Wilde
La Fuite de la Lune - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
While at Trinity Collage, Wilde obtained a reputation for clever repartee and keen wit. He affected a superior air in his manners which irritated his fellow undergraduates, so that he once became the object of their practical joking. While at Oxford...
Bible (KJV) 11: 1 Kings - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 11: 1 Kings - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The history of Israel from the final years of King David's life, through the reign of his son, Solomon, to the rule of King Jehoshaphat of Judah and King Ahaziah of Israel. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
Bible (ASV) NT 26: Epistle of Jude - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 26: Epistle of Jude - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The epistle is titled as written by "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James" NIV. If taken literally this means that the author is a brother of Jesus, an attribution which is now increasingly considered as the most probable....
The Patrician - John Galsworthy
The Patrician - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she is not a widow as everyone supposes, but that her husband is still alive and therefore the match is...
War Letters From A Young Queenslander - Robert Marshall ALLEN
War Letters From A Young Queenslander - Robert Marshall ALLEN
- Author: Robert Marshall ALLEN
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (20th C) / Letters
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of "de-lousing" an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine trenches and his eyewitness accounts...
Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, including the Queen herself, Scott presents the sad history and tragic consequences of the secretive marriage of...
Wheels - The First Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - The First Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Poetry
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, the poets represented in the series include Nancy Cunard, whose family founded the...
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat - Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well - what with fishing, playing with friends, and exploring the river. But then a mean farmer arrives, who seems determined to stop the trip....
Short Poetry Collection 165 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 165 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2017....
The Iron Heel - Jack London
The Iron Heel - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction / *Non-fiction
A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. (Introduction by Matt Soar)...
