Mildred’s New Daughter by Martha Finley (1828 – 1909)
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400Mildred’s New Daughter is one of the children’s Christian novels in a series by Martha Finley that follows the lives of four orphaned Eldon siblings through their lives with Uncles’ families, building a business and home of their own, and the marriages of Ethel and Blanche. (Summary by Deon Gines)
Read MorePrelude, Version 2, The by William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400Wordsworth’s celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, inspirations, and analytical processes, in an admirable quest to situate himself as a poet in his world. – Summary by Peter Tucker
Read MoreJoe Strong on the Trapeze; Or, The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer by Vance Barnum
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400 Joe Strong was a favorite hero and could ride any horse, juggle most anything, and climb buildings, all with a steel reserve. He was the child of unique parents: a mother that rode trick horses and a magician for his father. However, in Horatio Alger fashion, by age five, he was without either parent. So he grew up in a circus and Joe Strong on the Trapeze relates the time in his life when he joins the circus!
Summary by Gerald A Moe
Crimson Thread, The by Roy J. Snell (1878 – 1959)
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400 Lucile has a job in a department store book department for the holiday season before she returns to college for the next term. What could happen? Well, Lucile and her friends have just about as much excitement as they can handle! Several mysteries centered around this store, its employees, and even a newspaper’s Christmas publicity stunt combine to test her nerves and her skills as a kind-hearted, brave, and giving young lady.
This is the fifth book in Snell’s series of mysteries for girls. – Summary by Keith Salis
Three Judgments at a Blow by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600 – 1681)
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400 Old man. Beautiful daughter. Young man turned to crime. Stern King and inflexible justice. A great melodrama translated from the Spanish.
– Summary by ToddHW
Cast list:
Pedro IV, King of Arragon: Alan Mapstone
Don Mendo Torellas, his Minister: ToddHW
Donna Violante, Mendo’s daughter: Michele Eaton
Elvira, her maid: yamaahmad493
Don Lope De Urrea: João Senna
Donna Blanca, his Wife: Sonia
Don Lope, their Son: Jon Hunter
Beatrice, their Servant: ShrimpPhish
Don Guillen, a Friend of Don Lope’s: tombooker
Vicente, Young Lope’s Servant: Greg Giordano
Robbers: Agnes Robert Behr
Voices Within: Inkell
First Officer: Stacey Malcolm
Stage Directions: Larry Wilson
Editing: ToddHW
War Memories of an Army Chaplain by Henry C. Trumbull (1830 – 1903)
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his observations and recollections of his experiences, including time spent as a prisoner of war. He describes the life and duties of an Army chaplain, as well as gives his thoughts on slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath. (Summary by northstar95)
Read MoreShort Story Collection 113 by Various
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400Here we present the 113th edition of the Librivox Short Story Collection. Once again, readers selected their own texts, and, as always, have provided us with an eclectic variety. Sit back and enjoy stories from Mark Twain, Washington Irving, August Derleth, Erle Stanley Gardner and others.
Read MoreEnglish Poems by Various
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400 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 treasured. This book is such a compilation. These magnificent and varied works are written expressions of profound experiences, experiences that have stirred the poets’ creative imaginations and in turn will excite and inspire the reader’s reflective contemplation and deliberation of that which is, what may be, and the significant implications thereof.
From Wordsworth’s consideration of the music of “The Solitary Reaper” – “Oh, listen! for the vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound” – to Burns’ musings on mankind’s fate as he reflects on the passing of the seasons, “How little of life’s scanty span may remain”, there is an intense element of our essential destiny in these works. Coupled with this and acutely present throughout is a stream of that which is unknowable to mankind, along with a perplexity of the seeming self-assurance and acceptance of the world of nature – the unquestioning world of nature – and that therein may lie both a lesson and an answer.
– Summary by Bruce Kachuk
Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, The by Anne Warner (1869 – 1913)
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400Young scapegrace John Watkins, Jr., Denham (“Jack”), the favourite of his great-aunt Mary, has gotten into one too many scrapes. This time he has gone a little wild after overhearing his lady-love and another man saying sweet things to each other, and he now is facing expulsion from college. Aunt Mary finally tires of bailing him out and disinherits him. Jack, with the help of his friends, sets out to redeem himself and get back on her good side. – Summary by TriciaG
Read MoreStoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2, The by Edmund Gill Swain (1861 – 1938)
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:10:48 -0400A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, and these stories are in imitation of James’s style, but lack James’s uneasy intensity. – Summary by Peter Yearsley
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