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Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him
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…
The Readers' Corner, Part C
In Astounding Stories 15, March 1931
This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummin…
The Readers Corner part 1
In Astounding Stories 19, July 1931
THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an…
Design
In Muse and Mint
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…
Double Standard
In Short Science Fiction Collection 060
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…
Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Frequently Asked Questions (March, 2024)
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 103
"When money gives out, sense ensues." This pithy saying is from Yugoslav Proverbs, one of the twenty reader-chosen selections in v…
Chapter 2
In The Misplaced Battleship
"It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale o…
Home for the Holidays
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 026
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 026: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Brewster's Début
In The Arrival of Jimpson
This offering, "The Arrival of Jimpson, and Other Stories for Boys About Boys" contains eleven short stories by the prolific autho…
The Letter Patricia Wrote
In Uncollected Short Stories of L.M. Montgomery
A compilation of 80 short stories by the author of "Anne of Green Gables" that were not previously published in a book or in one o…
Traitor's Choice
In Three SF Short Stories by Paul W. Fairman
Deadly City: He opened his eyes, but this made no difference. The blackness remained. The pain in his head brightened and he reached up and …
The Reading Man
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Warren's Address by John Pierpoint
In Poems of American Patriotism
This book is a collection of patriotic poems by many authors. - Summary by Hannah Shaver
12 - As a Candidate
In A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories
Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend re…
Section 1- The Curious Republic of Condour
In The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from poli…
Pilgrims
In Lyrics and Legends of Christmas-Tide
American author and poet, Clinton Scollard, presents a charming collection of poetry to brighten the Christmas season. - Summary by Larry Wi…
Russell Kincaid
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…
Outpost on Io
In Short Science Fiction Collection 086
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…
Warren's Address, by John Pierpont
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)
The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, inc…
Andrew's proposal
In Doxie Dent
Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Cle…