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The History Lesson by Anonymous
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Lou's Clarionet (1896)
In A Christmas Miscellany 2018
Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)
Abandoned
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Fancy Free
In One-Act Play Collection 009
Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Dramatic Evening Narrator: April6090 Mr Thaddeu…
c. First Period. Mythical time, down to the Thessalian and Dorian migration (x-1104?)
In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History
The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1801), by Wendell Phillips
In The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…
The End of the Century
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 4
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …
Postscript
In Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds
In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…
Introductions
In Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 3
Another wonderful compilation of stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie! This volume, the 3rd of 12, contains 2 main sections: Classic Tale…
03 - (en) The Nineteenth Century and After
In Multilingual Short Work Collection 003
This is a collection for poetry and prose, fiction and non fiction in any language.
Geschichte des Agathon
Verbesserte und erweiterte Ausgabe von 1794.Wieland war – neben Lessing, Lichtenberg und Kant – der bedeutendste und reflexionsmächtigs…
Chapter 2 by Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939)
In The Sturdy Oak
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely gener…
Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"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 …
1100 Words
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086
"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…
Preface by Hilaire Belloc
In Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand A…
A LESSON FROM HISTORY - by Joseph Morris
In It Can Be Done
This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubl…
Selected excerpts
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Forword and Introduction
In The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
This World Fareth as a Fantasy
In Short Poetry Collection 101
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2011.
Memoirs of Jacob Ritter (1757-1841)
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097
"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…