ToddHW

162 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Short Long

Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Travel & Geography

1.1K

John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 12 more 8 hours 14 minutes

No comments

Essays & Short Works

939

Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

No comments

Art, Design & Architecture

1.1K

John Ruskin - Stones of Venice, Volume 3

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified...

Alan Weyman and 3 more 8 hours 4 minutes The Stones of Venice

No comments

Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

Biography & Autobiography

1.1K

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speaks with them about their work. If they are dead he reflects on how their...

Mike Pelton and 8 more 8 hours 4 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

No comments

General Fiction

928

Louis Joseph Vance - Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made...

William Tomcho and 6 more 8 hours 3 minutes

No comments

Crime & Mystery Fiction

903

Earl Derr Biggers - Seven Keys to Baldpate

Dime-store novelist William Magee has gone to Baldpate Inn to do a little soul-searching in an attempt to write a serious work. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of...

Susan Umpleby and 4 more 8 hours 2 minutes

No comments

Biography & Autobiography

901

May Gillington Byron - Day With Great Poets

Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time...

CaprishaPage and 5 more 7 hours 59 minutes

No comments

John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall

Action & Adventure Fiction

909

Herbert George Jenkins - John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall

John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him,...

William Tomcho and 3 more 7 hours 55 minutes

No comments

Essays & Short Works

982

Giacomo Leopardi - Essays and Dialogues

«We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent...

Mary J and 8 more 7 hours 54 minutes

No comments

Art, Design & Architecture

942

Harold Speed - Practice and Science of Drawing

This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass drawing, and how rhythm is conveyed in art by means of balance and...

ogbog and 13 more 7 hours 48 minutes

No comments

Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Fantasy Fiction

935

William Morris - Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

acousticwave and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

No comments

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

Poetry

1.2K

Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox — fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches — and each volume will be a pot pourri of...

Carl Manchester and 12 more 7 hours 40 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

No comments

New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

Show all