Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants | Charles Darwin
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A technical report of the experiments and observations performed on various species of twining, tend...
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 32nd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems...
Self-Help | The Freedom of Life | Annie Payson Call
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'The Freedom of Life' is a mind-illuminating book, in which author Annie Payson Call (1853-1940) wro...
Poetry | Color | Countee Cullen
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once...
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennyson And Kipling
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among ...
Bible (YLT) NT 12: Epistle to the Colossians
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Translated according to 'the letter and the idioms of the ...
The Heir At Law
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Dowlas a chandler from Gosport, transmogrified into a baron, naturally enough demands, in wha...
Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Austin L. Rand (1905 - 1982) Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his schola...
Action & Adventure | Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kari the Elephant is a 1922 work by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. The book is the first among those written i...
John Brown | Biography & Autobiography
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a moving and deeply felt biography of abolitionist John Brown, which defends its subject aga...
Science Fiction | Tom Swift and His War Tank | Victor Appleton
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tanks are a new wartime technology, and as the US enters WWI, Tom uses his skills and his family's f...
Frank Merriwell’s Trust (Dramatic Reading) | Burt L. Standish
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Merriwell is from Yale he excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale w...
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman | Biography | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay (
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Boone is celebrated in history and legend as one of the foremost pioneers who opened up the w...
War & Military Fiction | No Man's Land | Sapper
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could ...
Action & Adventure | The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car | Laura Lee Hope
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In "The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car, Or The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley", one of the girls has...
How the Codex Was Found | Christianity
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The narrative of these two journeys is of special interest, because the first one, that made by my ...
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet,...
Poetry | On Christmas Eve | Katharine Lee Bates
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Best known as the author of "America the Beautiful", American professor and poet Katharine Lee Bates...
Crime & Mystery Fiction | The Bartlett Mystery | Louis Tracy
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") ch...
Yellowstone Expedition of 1870 | Gustavus Cheyney Doane
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lt. Gustavus Doane was a member of the 1870 Yellowstone Expedition led by Henry Washburn. Washburn r...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge...
Christian Fiction | The Life and Death of Mr. Badman | John Bunyan
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seventeenth-century Puritan theologian John Bunyan wrote The Life and Death of Mr. Badman as a compa...
Science Fiction | Cosmic Castaway | Carl Richard Jacobi
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Within a year Earth would be a vassal world, with the Sirian invaders triumphant. Only Standish, Ea...
Cooking | All-Time Favorite Cranberry Recipes
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Published by Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc this book of recipes feature cranberries in appetizers, sa...
A History of Freedom of Thought | History, Atheism & Agnosticism | John Bagnell Bury
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The great civil liberties we enjoy today, like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, have thei...
Foundations of Geometry | David Hilbert | Mathematics
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The German mathematician David Hilbert was one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th/ea...
Children's Fiction | Joan and Peter | H. G. Wells
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is satirical look at the English educational system and society in the early twentieth century ...
Christmas Short Works Collection 2021 | Short Stories
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 2021 Christmas collection has some old favourites and some new, some reflections. Shepherds with...
Travel & Geography | South-Sea Idyls | Charles Warren Stoddard
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially thos...
Little Maid Marian | Amy Ella Blanchard
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Not the tale of Robin Hood’s friend, but a charming Victorian age story of Marian, a little girl b...
Earth Sciences | The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream | Louis Pope Gratacap
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation...
Mucedorus | William Shakespeare
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) The 1610 edition says it is by Shakespeare, and the play was in a...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 057 | Horror & Supernatural Fiction
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go...
Action & Adventure | Harry Dee; or Making it Out | Francis J. Finn
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Dee, a nervous, sensitive boy, given to somnambulism, arrives at St. Maure's following his exp...
Action & Adventure | The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp | Laura Lee Hope
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fourth book in the "Outdoor Girls" series. In this story, the scene is shifted to a wint...
Children's Fiction | The Goody-Naughty Book | Sarah Cory Rippey
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This fun little book was printed with two stories, back to back. Reading from the front cover, it i...
Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 2
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 32 works in this volume contain many diverse works from the period including sermons, essays, le...
Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics | Bliss Carman
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first of more than thirty books of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. "The poems in this volu...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 28, May 11, 1880 | Children's Fiction
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories,...
Thoughts on South Africa | Olive Schreiner
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in t...
Crime & Mystery Fiction | The Yellow Face | Fred M. White
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who is Nostalgo ? Posters with his unsettlingly grinning face are appearing on scaffolds all over L...
Arabella Stuart | George Payne Rainsford James
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one t...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 047
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Children's Short Works Collection 047: a collection of 15 short works for children Genre(s): Short w...
The Gods and Mr Perrin | Hugh Walpole
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a w...
Detective Fiction | A Fatal Message | Nicholas Carter
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years...
The Boise Survey | Education
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A complete survey of the Independent Boise School District, Boise, Idaho was conducted over two week...
Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society | Edward Carpenter | Essays & Short Works
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This pamphlet by LGBT pioneer and philosopher Edward Carpenter was originally intended to form part ...
Poetry | A Happy New Year and Other Verses | Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a collection of 27 poems, some seasonal to New Years and Christmas, but others on themes of ...
Nautical & Marine Fiction | The Yarn of Old Harbour Town | William Clark Russell
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, C...
Poetry | September | Dorothy Frances McCrea
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
15 recordings of September by Dorothy Frances McCrea. Dorothy Frances McCrae was an Australian poet...
Detective Fiction | The Twin Mystery | Nicholas Carter
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the year...
With the Empress Dowager of China | Katharine Carl | Memoirs
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the C...
Crime & Mystery Fiction | The Lost Mr. Linthwaite | J. S. Fletcher
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brix...
A Magician Among the Spirits | Harry Houdini
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Houdini, an escape artist and illusionist, became interested later in his life in debunking spiritua...
Almayer's Folly
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his...
Gloves Past and Present | Willard M. Smith | Business & Economics
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove in...
Against Celsus Book 4 | Origen of Alexandria | Christianity
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen...
Fairy Tales | Stories From the Rainbow Book | Mabel Henrietta Spielmann
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents whi...
The Candle and the Cat | Mary Finley Leonard | Family
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"To the memory of TROLLEY, This little story is dedicated." When young Caro goes to stay with her A...
The Golem: A legend of old Prague | Rudolf Lothar | Religious Fiction
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human pr...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | Crime & Mystery Fiction | James Hogg
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James Hogg (1770 - 1835) An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The P...
The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time | Richard le Gallienne
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) This stirring collection of inspirational war-time poems by the ...
Flowers of the Farm | Arthur Owens Cooke | Nature
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"To-day we are at Willow Farm again, and I want to show you some of the flowers that grow there. I ...
Science Fiction | Snowball | Poul William Anderson
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when a...
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes | Edward Carpenter | Family & Relationships
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the e...
The Guide for the Perplexed, Part One | Moses Maimonides | Medieval, Other religions
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Guide for the Perplexed by Mūsá ibn Maymūn (known throughout the Christian West as Moses Maim...
The Vale to You, To Me the Heights | Victor Hugo | Poetry
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These are 10 recordings of The Vale to You, To Me the Heights by Victor Hugo. Hugo is considered to...
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 | Charles Eliot
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat pos...
The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature | Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Poetry
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by ...
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla | A. H. Beesly | Political Science
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized wester...
Travel Fiction | Murray's Adirondack Tales | William Henry Harrison Murray
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two delightful tales surrounding the adventures of John Norton, the Trapper. He gives us a good glim...
The Aftermath of Slavery | William A. Sinclair | Social Science
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was ...
Poetry | Short Poetry Collection 222
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a collection of 44 poems Genre(s): Poetry Language: English
Nature | The Grand Cañon of the Colorado | John Muir
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US N...
Comedy | Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed | Titus Maccius Plautus
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. Th...
Christian Fiction | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Jessie Laidlay Weston
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This poem celebrates Christmas by exploring the mystery of Christ's mission on earth: his death, re...
Society as I Have Found It | Ward McAllister | Social Science
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was befor...
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays | Edward Carpenter
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of...
Science Fiction | Highways in Hiding | George O. Smith
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mechanical engineer Steve Cornell lives in a world where ESP and telepathy are normal, and a spreadi...
Poetry | A Tree with a Bird in it | Margaret Widdemer
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on whi...
Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 16 (Multilingual)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 16th edition of the Shakespeare Monologues Collection, in which Librivox volunteers brin...
Walking | Essays & Short Works, Nature | Henry David Thoreau
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This was originally titled "The Wild" and is a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyce...
Adrienne Lecouvreur | Tragedy
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This drama was written in 1848 for the great French tragedienne, Rachel, by Eugene Scribe and his wr...
The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion | War & Military
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was pu...
Gothic Fiction | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror...
General Fiction | The Martian | George du Maurier
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Martian, by George du Maurier, is a largely autobiographical novel published in 1898 and the aut...
English Literature for Boys and Girls | Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care...
Poetry | Eight Hours | George A. Baker, Jr.
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's poem is a narrative of a working girl and her situation in society. George A. Baker was ...
Family | Miss Lochinvar | Marion Ames Taggart
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure w...
Fantasy Fiction | Witch of the Demon Seas | Poul William Anderson
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-hauntedCitadel of the Xanthi wizards—into the very jaws o...
Christianity | Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII | Pope Leo XIII
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) wrote eighty-eight Encyclicals during his twenty-five year pontificate (18...
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 012
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 12th edition of the Librivox Mystery and Suspense Collection delivers such gems as Father Brown ...
Family Life | In the Garden of Delight | Lily Hammond
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This novel is narrated in the first person and revolves around a character named Lil (somewhat auto...
Bible (YLT) NT 07: 1st Epistle to the Corinthians | Religion
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The First Epistle to the Corinthians was written by the Apostle Paul, after having established the c...
Greetings from Longfellow | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a wonderful selection of six of the greatest works from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, unquesti...
Poetry, Short Stories | The Rover Vol. 01 No. 26
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine...
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 07 April 1897 | Fantastic Fiction, Short Stories
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often ...
Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales | Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children | Arthur Bowie Chrisman
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the Americ...
Rossini | W. Armine Bevan | Biography & Autobiography
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A brief summary of the life of the opera king, Rossini. Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography Lang...