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The Story Of A Modern Woman - Ella Hepworth DIXON
The Story Of A Modern Woman - Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Author: Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Genre: Undefined
"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. She becomes a writer. But she cannot write whatever she wants. There is a format in which her novels should be...
All Along The River - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
All Along The River - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Undefined
Isola Disney is very lonely. Her husband left her and traveled with his regiment to India. No one knows when he would return. Alone in a remote part of the country, she is an easy prey for the local nobleman. This realistic novel tells about choices...
The Story of a New Zealand River - Jane Mander
The Story of a New Zealand River - Jane Mander
- Author: Jane Mander
- Genre: Undefined
"This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person's being here is usually all the explanation necessary."The Story of a New Zealand River is a romance set in the Northland region of...
Three Dialogues - Barry Pain
Three Dialogues - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Undefined
Barry Pain is today best known for his ghost and horror stories, but he could also write some excellent social satire. This series of three dialogues follows a life cycle: the subject of the first little play is the birth of a girl, in the second...
Crime and Punishment (Version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Undefined
Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. The novel focuses on the mental anguish...
A History of and Suggestions in the Making of Biscuits, Quick Breads and Cake - Claudia Quigley Murphy
A History of and Suggestions in the Making of Biscuits, Quick Breads and Cake - Claudia Quigley Murphy
- Author: Claudia Quigley Murphy
- Genre: Undefined
This is a very short treatise on breads and cakes, published in 1921. The author is Claudia Quigley Murphy, a notable American journalist and suffragist. - Summary by Carolin...
Wheels - The Fourth Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - The Fourth Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Undefined
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, published in 1919, contains several notable poems by the recently deceased Wilfred Owen. The other poets...
The Vicar of Tours - Honoré de Balzac
The Vicar of Tours - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Undefined
Over twenty years before Anthony Trollope wrote The Warden, in which the gentle but unfortunate Rev. Septimus Harding becomes the prey of an investigative journalist, in 1831 Balzac published his Vicar of Tours. There too, a mild-mannered priest...
British Sea Birds - Charles DIXON
British Sea Birds - Charles DIXON
- Author: Charles DIXON
- Genre: Undefined
Charles Dixon describes briefly each of the British sea-going birds, their appearance, habits and distribution, in an easy to understand manner, generally separated into their family groups. - Summary by clarinetcarrot...
Uncanny Tales - Various
Uncanny Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is collection of uncanny stories complied and curated by Cyril Arthur Pearson. The stories are fine ghost and horror stories, with all the ingredients to make it work: night, ghosts, unexplained deaths, and locked rooms. Summary by Carolin...
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps - Arthur Paul HARPER
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps - Arthur Paul HARPER
- Author: Arthur Paul HARPER
- Genre: Undefined
“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be called semi-tropical vegetation, - it was difficult to believe that we were a mile and a half up and 300 ft....
Nature And Art - Elizabeth INCHBALD
Nature And Art - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: Undefined
This is a novel by the author of the play Lover's Vows which was mentioned in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. William and Henry come to London after the death of their father. They were educated in starkly different ways, one represented by nature...
The Mystery of the Sea - Bram Stoker
The Mystery of the Sea - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Undefined
Mystery of the Sea is a novel with elements of adventure, supernatural and romance. Archie Hunter goes on a holiday to relax but finds he sees unusual things like spirits and ghosts. An old woman claims she sees them too and that they are both...
Neither Here nor There - Oliver Herford
Neither Here nor There - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Undefined
Oliver Herford, and American humorist, writer, and illustrator here gives us short vignettes from topics as seemingly insignificant things as the creases in trouser, several pieces on cats, and societal mores and foibles. Each piece is filled with...
The Girl from Farris's - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Girl from Farris's - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Undefined
Ever want to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, only to have the whole world fight to keep you down? Ever been upstanding and righteous, only to have those around you take advantage of you? In the most unique of circumstances, watch a woman flee...
The Way to Will-Power - Henry HAZLITT
The Way to Will-Power - Henry HAZLITT
- Author: Henry HAZLITT
- Genre: Undefined
"The Way to Will-Power" is far from a standard self-help book. With ample wit and an occasionally sardonic tone, American journalist and free-market advocate Henry Hazlitt debunks popular concepts about the will, incorporates classical conceptions...
Coffee Break Collection 17 - Health and Fitness - Various
Coffee Break Collection 17 - Health and Fitness - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this...
Coffee Break Collection 21 -- Fairy Tales, Tall Stories and Scams - Various
Coffee Break Collection 21 -- Fairy Tales, Tall Stories and Scams - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is the twenty-first Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this...
The Conquest of Bread (version 2) - Peter KROPOTKIN
The Conquest of Bread (version 2) - Peter KROPOTKIN
- Author: Peter KROPOTKIN
- Genre: Undefined
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity, as symbol for richness and in spite of being in a time...
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 - John RAE
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 - John RAE
- Author: John RAE
- Genre: Undefined
After the bizarre death of Thomas Simpson, Dr. John Rae was chosen to complete the survey of the Northwest Passage, linking the work of Simpson and Peter Dease with the previously known country to the east. Rae was recognized for his endurance and...
The History of the Art of Tablesetting - Claudia Quigley Murphy
The History of the Art of Tablesetting - Claudia Quigley Murphy
- Author: Claudia Quigley Murphy
- Genre: Undefined
The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to do it? Maybe this little book will get some of us to start observing etiquette properly again. - Summary by...
A to Zed Collection Vol. 002 - Various
A to Zed Collection Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet....
Quentin Durward - Sir Walter Scott
Quentin Durward - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Undefined
Quentin Durward is a historical novel set in the mid-1400's. The main character is a Scottish archer serving French King Louis XI, another main character. - Summary by Deon Gines...