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This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford ...

"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore Spratte, a cleric, motivated by an obsessive desire to be elevated to bishop, embellishes his family history and intrudes upon his son's and daughter's courtships. A reviewer in 1906 wrote, "The whole book is an admirable blend of cynical gaiety and broadly farcical comedy; it is the smartest and most genuinely humorous novel that the season has yet given us." -- Lee Smalley

Faulkner's first book, containing two long poems. The Marble Faun is the first. The second poem in the book, The Green Bough, is not public domain yet. - Summary by Czandra

The White Alley by Carolyn Wells is a classic early twentieth-century mystery featuring the brilliant detective Fleming Stone. Published in 1915, it combines an apparently impossible crime, family tensions, romance, and methodical detective work.The story begins at White Birches, the imposing country estate of wealthy Justin Arnold, where a lively house party gathers shortly before his marriage to the much younger Dorothy Duncan. The estate is surrounded by high walls and protected by an elaborate burglar-alarm system, making unexplained events inside the property particularly puzzling.When ...

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot follows two intertwined lives in Victorian England. Daniel Deronda is a thoughtful young man raised by the wealthy Sir Hugo Mallinger, but he knows little about his true family background. His search for identity leads him to Mirah Lapidoth, a young Jewish woman he rescues from despair, and to Mordecai, a visionary scholar who encourages Daniel to explore Jewish history, culture, and spiritual purpose.Alongside Daniel’s story is Gwendolen Harleth, a proud and intelligent young woman whose financial difficulties push her into marriage with the wealthy but ...

Villette by Charlotte Brontë is a deeply psychological novel about loneliness, independence, love, identity, and the struggle to find one’s place in an unfamiliar world.The story follows Lucy Snowe, a reserved and intelligent young Englishwoman who leaves Britain and travels to the fictional continental city of Villette. There, she finds work as a teacher at a girls’ school and gradually becomes involved in a complicated network of friendships, rivalries, emotional attachments, and unspoken desires.Through Lucy’s intensely personal narration, Brontë explores isolation, jealousy, faith...

The Way It Came by Henry James is an atmospheric psychological ghost story about coincidence, jealousy, obsession, and the mysterious possibility of communication beyond death. First published in 1896, the story was later revised and retitled *The Friends of the Friends*.An unnamed narrator becomes fascinated by two of her friends—a man and a woman—who have each experienced a strangely similar supernatural event involving the appearance of a parent at the moment of death. Although both are intrigued by the coincidence and repeatedly express a desire to meet, circumstances continually ...

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged ...

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence without friends of her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with their precarious financial position and is attempting to make Nell a good inheritance by winning at cards. He keeps these nocturnal activities a secret, but borrows ...

In a little town of Buckskin, population 100, or 200 depending on who did the counting, all kinds of trouble is brewing. See, there was a rivalry going on between Buckskin and a nearby town, Perry's Bend. That rivalry had turned sour, and involved the four nearby ranches. Hopalong Cassidy lives on the Bar-20, and the cows from the C 80 were mixing with his herd. There are gun fights, barroom brawls and stampedes to make live exciting out there on the Texas-New Mexico line!

This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2018

The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we offer the seventh "First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first chapters of a variety of fiction and non-fiction works.

The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem. Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891–94, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Also of note is Watson's statement ...

Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that he is alive after all! In this collection, first published in 1905, the great detective causes Watson to faint (The Empty House), demonstrates that cryptography is elementary (The Dancing Men), and gets engaged (Charles Augustus Milverton). Join in the fun as Holmes deduces his way through these thirteen adventures. (summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we offer the sixth First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first chapters of a variety of fiction and non-fiction works.

This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic text focuses on "the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man." - Summary by Maggie Russell

The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with exile, and Odin, Balder's father, sponsors a heroic quest to rescue his son from the land of the dead. This desperate venture unexpectedly meets with partial success, a conditional agreement to release Balder if everyone in the land of the living mourns his death. And even though over every hope hangs the threat of the ultimate end of the reign of the Norse gods, the mother of the ...

Balder Dead by Matthew Arnold is a dramatic narrative poem inspired by Norse mythology, centered on the death of Balder, the beloved son of Odin and Frigg.Balder is admired for his goodness, beauty, and wisdom, but his death brings grief to the gods of Asgard and signals a darker future. The poem follows the mourning that surrounds him, the attempts to understand or reverse his fate, and the growing sense that even the gods cannot escape destiny.Matthew Arnold uses the myth to explore loss, fate, heroism, mortality, and the decline of the old gods. His style is solemn and reflective, giving ...

Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wilderness. He soon becomes obsessed with the success of an ivory trading commander, Kurtz. Little does he know, Kurtz has been consumed with darkness and has begun his descent into madness... Summary by cadastra.

Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them. We get the tale through a classic unreliable narrator, relating as Marlow, a ship’s captain, tells how he was sent by the Company to retrieve the wayward Kurtz, and was shaken to discover the true depths of darkness in that creature’s, and in his own, soul. Conrad based the work closely on his own ...