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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, tendril-climbing, root-climbing, and leaf-climbing pla...

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, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes...

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) wrote about many of the troubles that we usually face...

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 spiritually tied to homelands where their ancesto...

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 other things, the valor of soldiers and the tragic...

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 original languages.'  Genre(s): Young's Liter...

The Heir At Law

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Dowlas a chandler from Gosport, transmogrified into a baron, naturally enough demands, in what consists the mighty difference between drinking ...

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 scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertainin...

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 in English by an Indian author in the category of c...

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 against the popular notion of him as a delusional fan...

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 factory to secretly design and build a bigger, bett...

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 while solving mysteries and righting wrongs the sto...

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 wilderness of Kentucky. Famed for his skills as a h...

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 not publish books using their real names, so newsp...

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 learned to run a big motor car and she invites th...

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 twin sister, Mrs. Lewis, and myself, in 1892, led ...

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, she questions the restrictive norms with which sh...

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 also wrote many books and articles on social refo...

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") characters, a solid plot, no cheap plot-twists, two ...

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 requested military support from General Hancock of ...

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 them." Woodrow Wilson's Study of Administration e...

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 companion piece to The Pilgrim’s Progress, the litera...

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, Earth's Defense Engineer, could halt that last victo...

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, salads, side dishes, main dishes, breads, cakes, coo...

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 their foundation in Freedom of Thought. Without being ...

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/early 20th century. Hilbert's 20 axioms were first p...

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 and the effect of World War I on them by following...

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 a difference from New Zealand, and hopefully ever...

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 those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873) was his ...

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 being raised by her formal but loving grandparents....

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 on what it means to be an English person, and at ...

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 volume of Shakespeare in the library of Charles t...

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 bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, ...

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 experiences involving the murder of his rich uncle. T...

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 winter season. The girls have some jolly times skating...

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 is "The Goody Side," where children are well-behave...

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, letters, commentaries, poems and reports. Many piece...

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 volume have been collected with reference to their sim...

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, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzz...

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 the early 19th century, mostly regarding Boer-Engli...

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 London. A murdered body, horribly disfigured and be...

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 time considered to be a possible successor to Eliza...

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 works

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 well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill are mas...

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, different authors, all taking the nom de plume N...

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 weeks, with the purpose to study and observe the schoo...

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 of his work "Love's Coming of Age", but was remove...

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 religion, nature and home.  Genre(s): Single ...

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, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time at sea now...

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 poetess born in 1879 in Melbourne Australia.  Gen...

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 years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume ...

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 Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any other Western...

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 Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Silchester, ...

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 spiritualists, disbelieving anyone who claimed to have sup...

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 father's Polish nationalist political activities,...

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 industry, and my connection with one of the substant...

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 of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, counteri...

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 which are written with a great deal of fun and fancy ...

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 Aunt and Grandfather, the seminary president, she l...

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 prejudices. The plan does not go as he hoped... This...

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 Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinn...

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 renowned author Richard le Gallienne, offers an in...

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 do not mean those which Mrs. Hammond, the farmer's...

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 anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen oven?... H...

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 erratic character of his ways among the human race....

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 Maimonides) is regarded as one of the most important w...

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 be one of the greatest and best-known French writ...

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 posted to Asia and his great work was interrupted by ...

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 appealing to the reader's fancy, quickening his/he...

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 western world. As the British historian, Augustus Henry ...

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 glimpse into life in the deep woods, and how he deals ...

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 brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair puts it at t...

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 National Parks. In this short work, written in the ...

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. They are married to two brothers, Epignomus and Pamp...

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, resurrection, and second coming as judge of all huma...

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 before Webster & Company failed that Ward McAlliste...

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 disease with which humanity is afflicted. Alongsi...

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 spreading plague called Mekstrom’s Disease turns its vi...

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 which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on...

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 shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psycholo...

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 bring you their favorite characters' monologues. All t...

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 lyceum. "Walking" is an essay that explores the relati...

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 writing partner, Ernest Legouve. Scribe is remembere...

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 published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1912. The s...

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 and set in a remote past when prodigies and magic...

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 author's third. It describes the life of Barty Jossel...

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 to listen? I think not." Thus begins a journey th...

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 a native of New York City. He was a journalist, la...

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 which, will be arriving from the west to live with ...

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 of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate of Conahur, laughe...

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 (1878-1903). Fifty-six of those are included in this ...

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 in the Donnington Affair, Edgar Allen Poe and Guy ...

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 autobiographical of the author) and the dynamics of a ...

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 church in Corinth. In it, he responds to a letter w...

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, unquestionably one of the world's most celebrated poets. D...

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 started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree...

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 about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers ...

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 American Library Association, for the most distinguished...

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 Language: English W. Armine Bevan (1855 - 1909)