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Knock Three Times!

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Jack and Molly were twins, and this was their ninth birthday. Such a happy, exciting day it had been; it felt like a birthday all day long, so yo...

The Tale of Betsy Butterfly (Version 2)

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 - 1949) Betsy Butterfly has an exciting time in the meadow. Some dangers of course but lots of fun and productive work. Join...

The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 08 May 1897

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers ...

Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

01 Feb 2022

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Hugh Walpole (1884 - 1941) Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of P...

The Diatessaron: A Harmony of the Four Gospels

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tatian (c120 - c180) Translated by Hope W. Hogg (1863 - 1912) The Diatessaron is such an impersonal work that we do not need to know very much about i...

Recurrence

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York. She was best known for her wit, wise...

Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922) 01. That Pretty Girl in the Army The Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Outback town of Bourke. &...

The Wounded Soldier in the Convent

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

François Coppée (1842 - 1908) Translated by George Curzon (1859 - 1925) The poem was written in Paris during the Siege, November 1870 and celebrate...

The Night-Born

31 Jan 2022

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Jack London (1876 - 1916) Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre. The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspi...

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete with good counsel. H...

The Incredulity of Father Brown

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective stories. The mysteries are solved by the detecti...

Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 2)

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) A charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the searc...

The Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Gray Butler (1831 - 1909) This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates ...

Ontology, or the Theory of Being

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Coffey (1876 - 1943) The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology.  Genre(s): Modern

The Newcomes

28 Jan 2022

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of...

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anita Loos (1888 - 1981) In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee wh...

Iris

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934) Left a widow 5 years ago at age 21, Iris Bellamy is shackled by terms of her husband's will that would leave her penn...

The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julia Darrow Cowles (1862 - 1919) In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic...

The Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs!

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

General Foods Corporation Published by the General Foods Corporation, featuring Calumet Baking baking powder, these recipes cover a variety of baked g...

Mother Stories from the Old Testament

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mother Stories from the Old Testament is a book of the best stories from the Old Testament that mothers can tell their children.  Genre(s): Relig...

Barrack-Room Ballads

28 Jan 2022

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Rudyard Kipling (1868 - 1936) Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly i...

For Love and Life Vol. 1

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel opens...

Is War Diminishing?

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frederick Adams Woods (1873 - 1939) and Alexander Baltzly A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book sum...

Meadowlark Basin

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

B. M. Bower (1871 - 1940) This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of th...

Theft

25 Jan 2022

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Jack London (1876 - 1916) This is a political play which is set in Washington DC. Howard Knox is a congressman and believes that there are corrupt pra...

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 3: The Dialogues of the Dead

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 - c. 180) Dialogues of the Dead are 30 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally wr...

Faith

25 Jan 2022

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (1809 - 1893) These are 28 recordings of Faith by Fanny Kemble. ----- Fanny Kemble was a British actress who also found t...

Religio Journalistici

25 Jan 2022

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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem.&...

The Ghost Kings

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) Rachel Dove is a British missionary's daughter in the wilds of Africa. Her life is turned around when fellow teenager R...

Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Young (1741 - 1820) Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himse...

T. Tembarom

25 Jan 2022

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924) T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspape...

Mongan's Frenzy

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Stephens (1882 - 1950) James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full ...

The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Vandercook (1877 - 1958) The story of the four Ranch Girls is plainly just beginning. Girls so entirely unlike in temperament and ideals, as ...

The Silver Shadow, and Other Day Dreams

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frank W. Boreham (1871 - 1959) Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books...

Bible (YLT) NT 12: Epistle to the Colossians (Version 2)

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1887 Dr. Young issued a Revised Edition, of which two impressions are exhausted. The work has been subjected to a new revision, making no alteratio...

Billy Whiskers' Adventures

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frances Trego Montgomery (1858 - 1925) Billy Whiskers, Stubby and Button return from France to New York where new adventures await our favorite goat ...

Trees, Shown to the Children

25 Jan 2022

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C. E. Smith A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find in one's backyard and farther environs. A touch of science and a love of ...

A Bold Stroke for a Husband

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Cowley (1743 - 1809) "Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present...

Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other Sketches

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas P. Detter (1826 - ) READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked design...

Anno Domini 2071

22 Jan 2022

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Pieter Harting (1812 - 1885) Curious to see how the world was imagined to be 50 years from now? Harting, under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, origina...

Lake Lyrics and Other Poems

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

William Wilfred Campbell (1860 - 1918) A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty o...

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, ...

Winnie-the-Pooh

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has f...

We Were There at the Normandy Invasion

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Clayton Knight (1891 - 1969) D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different ...

The Chinese Dragon

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luther Newton Hayes (1883 - 1978) The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The ...

Under the Tiger's Claws; or, A Struggle for the Right (Version 2)

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Carter A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing funds—and a trusted clerk who has disappeared.  Genre...

Billy Whiskers in France

22 Jan 2022

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Frances Trego Montgomery (1858 - 1925) Billy Whiskers is in France, but he is homesick. Of course, he makes new friends and entangles himself in many ...

The Case of the Lamp That Went Out

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Auguste Groner (1850 - 1929) "The Case of the Lamp That Went Out" is one of the earlier Joseph Muller stories by Austrian author, Auguste Groner, ori...

Gold of the Gods

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur B. Reeve (1880 - 1936) Mansiche, the ruler of ancient Northern Peru was believed to have buried a huge treasure. But he cast a curse on, whoev...

The Younger Sister

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 - 1877) Emma Watson, the youngest child of six from a poor family, was sent away as a child to be raised by her wealthy ...

The Cat's Paw

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881 - 1935) Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the evidence points to murder. She is supposed to have been p...

The Border Riflemen

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Albert W. Aiken (1846 - 1894) In this dime novel set on the American frontier, we meet a beautiful young girl, Sadie, who is fending off advances fro...

Myths and Legends Around the World (in English) Collection 13

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, m...

Wives on Strike

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lillian Sutton Pelée (1872 - 1948) The "Wives' Welfare Club" is meeting together so they may air grievances about their husbands and the inequality t...

The Romance of a Shop

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Levy (1861 - 1889) Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy's first novel tells the story of the four Lorimer sisters, who d...

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "Ameri...

Pimpernel and Rosemary

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865 - 1947) A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter'...

The Master's Violin

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Myrtle Reed (1874 - 1911) Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town o...

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

W. H. Fawcett (1885 - 1940) "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-pa...

Sally on the Rocks | Winifred Boggs | General Fiction

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the ...

Four Masters of Etching | Frederick Wedmore

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artiest of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour Haden, Jule...

The Cenci | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tragedy

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Written in 1819, but not first staged for over hundred years after it was written due to controversial themes of incest and parricide, it was not cons...

The Sentimental Song Book | Julia A. Moore | Poetry

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its questionable grammar...

The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) | Pierre Beaumarchais

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official...

Isles of Eden | Laura Lee Davidson

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is independent, ...

The Song of the Waters | Poetry

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

These are 17 recordings of The Song of the Waters by William Murray Graydon. ----- William Murray Graydon, February 4, 1864 – April 5, 1946, was an...

The Last Wish | Poetry

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

These are 27 recordings of The Last Wish by Robert Bulwer-Lytton. ----- Robert Edward Bulwer-Lytton was the son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton,...

Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends | Marshall Saunders

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear little Princess Sukey sitting by the fire—pretty little pigeon—of what is she thinking as she dreamily eyes the blazing wood? If a pigeon cou...

A Personal Record | Joseph Conrad

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way through writi...

Later Treatises of Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria | Christianity

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The times, for which God raised up Saint Athanasius, have, in many respects, a counterpart in our own. There is, now too, earnest, ever-enlarging, adh...

Horror & Supernatural Fiction | The Thing in the Woods | Margery Williams

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a superstitious bu...

The Spirits' Book

15 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Allan Kardec (1804 - 1869) The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It cont...

The Aliens | Science Fiction | Murray Leinster

15 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered...

Later Poems

15 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922) Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Cathol...

Crime & Mystery Fiction | The Dream Doctor

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur B. Reeve (1880 - 1936) The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who...

Bible (YLT) NT 08: 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Old and New Covenants, translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages. - From the title page Genre(s): Young's Literal Tr...

Verse and Worse

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harry Graham (1874 - 1936) A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, P...

The Professor's House

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) A portrait of Americas many social groups with the chief interest centered on a university professor and his family...

The Tale of a Tank And Other Yarns

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harold Ashton (1875 - 1919) Harold Ashton was the War Correspondent of The Daily News during the First World War and reported extensively on the Brit...

James Grant | The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes | War & Military Fiction

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Grant was a prolific Scottish writer of novels and "novelettes", particularly centered around military life. Included with this regimental tale,...

Romance | A Weaver of Dreams | Myrtle Reed

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Delightful and charmingly predictable, this sweet romance will make you reflect one minute and laugh out loud the next. It's the kind of cozy read tha...

The Forest Reverie | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Whilst Edgar Poe was editor of the Broadway Journal, some poems were published over the signature of "A. M. Ide". In order, doubtless, to give a show ...

The Romance of Modern Geology | Earth Sciences | Edwin Sharpe Grew

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the building and ...

First Love and Other Fascinating Stories about Spanish Life | Short Stories

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is a collection of humorous short stories bound to entertain and make readers chuckle! Genre(s): Short Stories Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza ...

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution | John Dryden Kuser

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in Haiti’s h...

Ten Kittens | G. A. Puckett

08 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The stories of the ten kittens told in this book are true to life. They have been gathered from here and there over the country. All the kittens have ...

Physics & Mechanics | The Atom and the Ocean | E. W. Seabrook Hull

08 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an overview...

A Girl Among the Anarchists

08 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist journal i...

Against Celsus Book 5 | Origen of Alexandria

08 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, counteri...

Bread | Charles G. Norris

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influenced F. Scott...

The Blue Review, Number 3 | Short Stories

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review was edited b...

Literary Criticism | A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare | George MacDonald

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But this book s...

Detective Fiction | Under the Tiger's Claws | Nicholas Carter

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume N...

Poetry | The Empty Room | Katharine Lee Bates

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Best known as the author of "America the Beautiful", American professor and poet Katharine Lee Bates also wrote many books and articles on social refo...

My Brigantine | James Fenimore Cooper

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After a stint on a commercial voyage, James Fenimore Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing saili...

Short Poetry Collection 223

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is a collection of 38 poems read in English. Genre(s): Poetry

Legends & Fairy Tales | Grimm's Fairy Stories | Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fairies, Evil Step Mothers, Enchanted Forests, Golden Geese, Poor Little Children, Fairy Godmothers, Magic wells, and oh, so many many more of the thi...

The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug | Arthur Scott Bailey

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Little Mrs. Ladybug was a worker. Nobody could deny that. To be sure, she had to stop now and then to talk to her neighbors, because Mrs. Ladybug dea...

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administrat...

Comedy | The Fairy Lady

01 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Don Manuel and Cosmo are visiting town to stay with Don Manuel's friend Don John de Toledo for the young Prince's christening, when suddenly a a veile...