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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…
Preface
In Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…
1620-1920, by Le Baron Russel Briggs
In Anthology of Massachusetts Poets
Poet and editor of many anthologies, William Stanley Braithwaite, gathers a collection of poems from well known and lesser known poets from …
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…
One Out of Ten
In Short Science Fiction Collection 049
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
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…
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. …
November 11, 1918
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…
Problem, The
In Poems Every Child Should Know
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lo…
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…
Dirge
In Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. "…
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…
Five Hundred Carats
In The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…
Finn blood (nineteenth century), by Jonas Lie
In The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Search for the Poles
This is the eighth 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 T…
Selected works
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
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…
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…
Centennial
In The Sentimental Song Book
Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its …
Nancy Knapp
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
The Answer by Sara Teasdale
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
Noon
In English Poems
Occasionally a compilation of poetry is conceived in which each poem, as a tribute to its theme or subject or elegant prosody, is one to be …