27/10/2024
Young Woman’s Guide to Excellence
Much of this guide for young women is still valuable today. Despite mentions of tight lacing and other out of date matters, it contains many timeless principles. (Bria Snow) [chương_files]
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27/10/2024
He Can Who Thinks He Can
Do you have what it takes to be the person you want to be? This is a neat self help book in plain English by the New Thought Movement author Orison Swett Marden. He has included various essays on the principles he believes will lead to success in life. This book is a nice reading for any one who believes in “The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone,” which was one of Orison Swett Marden’s famous dialogues. (Summary by sidhu177) [chương_files]
26/10/2024
What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, and other stories
A delightful collection of stories about Christmas and what it is by literary geniuses such as Dickens, Martineau, and Buckley. – Summary by Mozartjr [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Dedications
Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following anthology of dedications has been to make a representative, rather than an exhaustive collection. My first idea was to take only beautiful dedications, and above all those which showed thought and originality. I next sought those which were quaint and curious, grave and gay, and then wandering through the wide field of English literature, tried to have each section of it represented. Dedications which brought one in touch with the world of religion, philanthropy, the fine arts, science, nature and travel have also claimed my attention. Then, narrowing my interest, I searched for those to celebrated people, or by celebrated people, even though the dedications were not particularly desirable in themselves. I was anxious to include great heroes, as David Livingstone, and when unable to obtain dedications to them I substituted books by them or about them. The same was true in regard to certain industrial subjects, as needlework, cooking, etc. Last but not least, I tried to include dedications which were valuable because of their human interest. – Summary by Mary Elizabeth Brown [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Love Stories Volume 5
Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, offered by LibriVox volunteers, covering all kinds of experiences involving romance or other kinds of love resulting in heartbreak or happiness, fantastic or real — where the heart overflows with passion, pride, emotion or wonder. You know — love. – Summary by Michele Fry [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Children of the Tenements
This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears. [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 103
We present the 103rd edition of the Librivox Short Story Collection. All stories are selected by the reader. This collection includes works by Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dunsany, Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce, among a host of others. [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Art of Public Speaking
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. Esenwein is a manual for people who have to speak in public, and it is still in use today. Whether the occasion in question is sharing travel experiences with friends, a toast for newly-weds, or a public debate, the tips and tricks collected in this book will come handy anywhere. The book describes how to make effective use of one’s voice and gestures, how to gain and convey confidence in front of a large audience, and which methods to use to convert the listeners to one’s own cause. Each chapter contains examples and a list of practice exercises. The last 15 sections are real speeches by famous men to function as a study aid. (Summary by Availle) [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Canada in War-Paint
There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souvenir de la guerre—a series of vignettes of things as they struck me at the time, and later. I have written of types, not of individuals, and less of action than of rest. The horror of war at its worst is fit subject for a master hand alone. – Summary by the author, Capt. Ralph W. Bell [chương_files]
26/10/2024
Curtezan Unmasked
“The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust” is a fire-and-brimstone polemic by “A Spiritual Physician” to persuade young men not to succumb to harlotry and its accompanying perils. (Introduction by Denny Sayers) [chương_files]