Books
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police – A Tale of the Macleod Trail
Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly fails his team, he doubts he’ll ever be good for anything ever again. Things soon take a turn downward and Cameron is forced to face the fact that his only option may be leaving all he’s ever known and going to Canada for a new start. Summary by Adele de Pignerolles
Cornhuskers
Carl Sandburg’s collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.
The Corner House
A deserted house with a troubled past. A mysterious countess who captivates everyone with her wealth and beauty — well, almost everyone. An equally mysterious derelict who holds a secret to the countess’s past. A fresh crime that threatens to ruin a promising young doctor. A plucky young governess determined to save him. Who will prevail? (Jacquerie)
Cornelli
Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of his business trips, hoping that their influence will refine and improve his daughter. Instead, the ladies prove to have no real love for Cornelli, and she, being a sensitive soul, turns inward and becomes sullen and uncooperative. A boy who comes on a visit to Iller-Stream for his health befriends her, and this begins a chain of events that turn Cornelli’s life right-side up again. (Summary by Jael Baldwin)
Coriolanus
Shakespeare was passionately interested in the history of Rome, as is evident from plays like Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. His tragedy Coriolanus was probably written around 1605-07, and dramatizes the rise and fall of a great Roman general, Caius Martius (later surnamed Coriolanus because of his military victory at Corioli). This play is unusual in that it provides a strong voice for the ordinary citizens of Rome, who begin the play rioting about the high price of food, and who continually clash with Coriolanus because of his contempt for plebians. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast Caius Martius Coriolanus: thebicyclethief Citizen: Patti Cunningham First Citizen/Second Officer/Second Patrician: Chuck Williamson Cominius: Bob Gonzalez Fifth Citizen: Availle First Conspirator/First Officer/Lieutenant/Second Senator/Second Servingman: Todd First Lord/Sixth Citizen: Tricia G First Senator: DublinGothic First Servingman: Leonard Wilson First Soldier/Herald: John Fricker Gentlewoman/Second Soldier/Third Lord/Young Coriolanus: Martin Geeson Junius Brutus: Ron Altman Menenius Agrippa: Algy Pug Roman/Second Conspirator/Seventh Citizen: Kristingj Second Citizen: Peter Makus Second Lord: Chuck Donovan Sicinius Velutus: Ric F Third Citizen: Joshua Letchford Third Conspirator: Heather Phillips Third Roman: Lucy Perry Titus Lartius/Aedile: Delmar H. Dolbier Tullus Aufidius: Arielle Lipshaw Valeria: Tiffany Halla Colonna Virgilia: Amy L. Gramour Volsce: Max Korlinge Volumnia: Elizabeth Klett Narrator: Diana Majlinger Other roles (crowd voices, etc) read by members of the company. Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett
The Coral Island
Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his dreams. Shipwrecked on a large, uninhabited island, Ralph and his fellow survivors, Jim and Peterkin, discover a world of hostile natives and villainous pirates. Danger, high adventure, and wonders of the sea greet them at every turn. When all seems lost, they find help from an unexpected source. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton
The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, whose lonesome death in childbirth in a Connecticut inn sparked widespread discussion and outrage, the novel went through many editions and innumerable printings in the century after its initial publication in 1797. (Summary by Jon Miller)
The Copyright Question
This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Trade but was denied. This is his letter in response. He wished to make clear his position. Summary by Esther.
Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt
The present work contains the Coptic versions of ten Greek Homilies on fasting, repentance, the end of the world, the Incarnation, etc., which are attributed to John the Faster, Athanasius of Alexandria, Proclus of Cyzicus, Eusebius and Basil of Caesarea, and Archbishop Theophilus. The texts, written in the dialect of Upper Egypt. Linguistically the texts are of great importance, and they form a mass of material which is of the highest value to Egyptologists generally. From the theological point of view they are no less interesting, for they illustrate Egyptian Theology in its Christian form, and reveal the opinions which were current among the dwellers in monasteries on the essentials of faith and works. (Summary from the preface)
Coppertop
The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also has two invisible brothers whom she created so as to not be alone while her parents travel for the Crown. The author here produces an alternative version of fairyland to the more traditional European form, that is bizarre, entertaining and funny at the same time. – Summary by phil chenevert and Wikipedia
The Copper Princess
The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper mining inheritance against smugglers and bandits. He also encounters a beautiful and mysterious maiden who is caught in her father’s secret crimes. [Summary by Brenda Price] Note: This book contains racial comments that may be offensive to modern listeners.
The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery
Food is one of the necessities but also one of the greatest pleasures. Knowing how to cook a good meal is therefore extremely important for all of us. Maybe you can find some inspiration for tonight’s dinner in this 1877 cook book by Juliet Corson. – Summary by Carolin
Cookie ‘n’ Cracker Cookin’
This is a short recipe book published by the United Biscuit Company of America, later to become the Keebler Company. Each recipe features one or more of their products the best known of which are Club Crackers, Town House Crackers, Honey Grahams, and Saltine Crackers. Categories range from appetizers through desserts. – Summary by Larry Wilson
The Coo-ee Reciter
Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practice in addressing groups in public, but also provided models for the study of accent and elocution ? vital skills in the days before public address systems were universally available. Accordingly, a number of ?reciters,? or collections of texts suitable for recitation, were published in this period. The Coo-ee Reciter, published in 1904, was one of the most popular of these collections in Australia. In the words of the anthologist it contains a variety of “humorous, pathetic, dramatic and dialect recitations and readings” by Australian, British and American authors. Inevitably, these collections featured many items that featured the events and attitudes of the period. While many of the pieces can make no claim to be great literature, they do have great value as windows into the experiences, expectations and aspirations of the people at the time. – Summary by Algy Pug
The Convivio
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or “books”: a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that goes off in multiple thematic directions. The Convivio is a kind of vernacular encyclopedia of the knowledge of Dante’s time; it touches on many areas of learning, not only philosophy but also politics, linguistics, science, and history. The treatise begins with the prefatory book, or proem, which explains why a book like the Convivio is needed and why Dante is writing it in the vernacular instead of Latin. It is one of Dante’s early defenses of the vernacular, expressed in greater detail in his (slightly earlier) linguistic treatise De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular). Books 2 and 3 form a unit, both focusing on Dante’s new love after the death of Beatrice?his love for Lady Philosophy, “the most beautiful and dignified daughter of the Emperor of the universe,” as he calls her. Book 2 discusses allegory and Lady Philosophy (in connection with the canzone Voi che ?ntendendo il terzo ciel movete [You who move the third heaven with an act of the intellect], which opens the book), and also brings such subjects as astronomy, angelology, and the soul’s immortality. Book 3 is a hymn of praise for philosophy, launched by an allegorical interpretation of Dante’s great canzone Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona (Love, who speaks to me in my mind). In this book, Dante asserts that true philosophy cannot arise from any ulterior motives, such as prestige or money?it is only possible when the seeker has a love of wisdom for its own sake. Book 4 is by far the longest of the Convivio, and is noticeably distinct from the two books that precede it. The subject of book 4 is the nature of nobility. It opens with the longest canzone of the Convivio, Le dolci rime d?amor (Those sweet poems of love), which is explicitly about gentilezza or nobility, as well as a condemnation of avarice, asserting that reason and the spirit of acquisition are mutually incompatible. The first half of book 4’s thirty chapters are dedicated to debunking the false idea of nobility as an inherited trait, one restricted to the aristocracy, while the final fifteen chapters delineate what true nobility consists of?the perfection of a thing according to its nature?and how nobility manifests in people at various stages of life. The Convivio, in its autobiographical passages and in the trajectories of its lines of thought, gives us a rich portrait of Dante himself, of great importance for an understanding of his work as a whole, especially the Divine Comedy. – Summary by Wikipedia
The Convict
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or someone, before continuing their journey to the home of Sir Arthur Adelon. What was the girl doing out alone at night? What was her father’s business on the cliff? Who is the sinister-looking stranger that young Edgar Adelon spots at the home of his beloved? And does Dudley have a chance with the beautiful heiress Eda, or have her affections been won by his wealthy patron? As tensions rise between Lord and tutor, tragedy strikes and the harsh reality of the penal system is laid bare. With the backdrop of political unrest and the growing Chartist movement, this tale has intrigue, romance and passion.
Conversion
Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated “the grand passion”?love. A few of those are of an extremely fiery character. (from the Preface to Love and Passion by the authoress)
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and a countess, while walking in her garden and gazing at the stars. The philosopher explains the heliocentric (sun as the centre) model of the solar system and also muses on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. While it explains the heliocentric model, unlike other astronomy works of the time, it did not attract the attention of the Church. (Summary by TriciaG, modified from Wikipedia)
Short Poetry Collection 087
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2010.
Convention
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Convention by Agnes Lee. This was the weekly poetry project for December 21st, 2008.
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. – Summary by Tray
Contrasts
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Contrasts by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 29, 2022. —— Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. This Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) by Madison Julius Cawein (1907) – Summary by Wikipedia
Contrasted Songs
This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, “Among these “Contrasted Songs” I trust that the reader will find something to which the heart may respond.” – Summary by Carolin
Contra Gentes
Contra Gentes is the first of a two volume work published by Athanasius of Alexandria prior to the outbreak of the Arian controversy (ca. 319). It focuses especially on pagan beliefs and worship concluding with a defense of the Christian view of God and creation — especially creation by the eternal Word. In this way, the ground is prepared for the second volume of his work, now published separately under the title De Incarnatione Verbi. (Summary by Jonathan Lange)
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 10 July 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This is the tenth issue of volume 2 with the following five short stories: > For Dear Old Yale, by James Langston: a game of cards will decide the fate of these six men > The Casket of Pandora, by Margaret Dodge: a young woman is tempted to choose between her family and her career > A Romance of the Palisades, by E. O. Weeks: what is the secret behind the scared expression in a young girl’s portrait ? > A Postponed Arrest, by Leland Ingersoll: the sheriff takes a merciful decision to ease a dying man’s final hours > A Geometrical Design, by Mary Foote Arnold: a mysterious will starts three sisters off on a treasure hunt – Summary by Sonia
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 09 June 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This is the ninth issue of volume 2 with the following five short stories: “The Man-Hunt of Mendocino”, by Frank Bailey Millard: no one can stop the revenge of a mother for the murder of her son “Silas Bartle’s Snake-Bite Cure”, by Winthrop Packard: witness young Norris’ dramatic struggle to survive a deadly snake bite “Tunnel Number Six”, by Eugene C. Derby: learn all about the startling explanation of a seemingly haunted mine-tunnel “An Old Maid’s Wedding Trip”, by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins: let’s join a spinster’s honeymoon with an unexpected outcome “The Official Report”, by Thaddeus M. Lakewood: love sometimes can ruin even a brilliant officer’s career – Summary by Sonia
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 08 May 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This is the eighth issue of volume 2 with the following five short stories: “The Passing of the Polly Ann”, by Collins Shackelford: the survivor of a drifting ship testifies to a startling revelation “The Obsequies of Ole Miss Jug”, by Jean Ross Irvine: these children know how to bury a faithful dog in style “A Modern Goliath”, by J. C. W. Brooks, U.S.A.: witness a spectacular court-martial trial, trying to prove a soldier’s innocence “The Colby Girls”, by Charles Bryant Howard: two sturdy spinsters battle through a storm at sea “Trans-Saharan Station 15-M”, by J. E. Pember: three men are struggling to stay alive in the stifling heat of the Sahara Summary by Sonia
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 07 April 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This seventh issue of volume 2 presents the following five short stories: “The Peacock and the Copper Moon”, by Frances Aymar Mathews: a sculptor’s plan to save her lover suddenly receives a dramatic twist “Westward Ho !”, by J. Wesley Glover: don’t launch the party before the guests arrive ! “The Captain’s Gray”, by Ella F. Mosby: a war-horse and its dead master save the day in a battle “M’Goulighan”, by Frances Lynde: a sheriff’s deputy finds out that there’s some good even in the most hardened prisoner “The Man with the Iron Arm”, by Geik Turner: watch a weak-looking runt win against the best fighters in a wrestling match – Summary by Sonia
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This sixth issue of volume 2 presents the following five short stories: “The Stolen Melody”, by Constance Fauntleroy Runcie: a ruthless pianist tries to win the music award through evil manipulation “The Bramble Gift Trust”, by Zollie Luther Jones: Nannie Burns has assembled a very unusual collection of souvenirs “The Parchment Slave”, by A. M. Barnes: find out what really happened to the last will of Mr Boise “Monsieur Angot”, by Charles F. Bourke: let yourself be instructed by the musings and philosophies of a French parrot “The Ivory Bells”, by James Buckham: a young woman hopes to find out that Love is not only attracted by lovely baubles – Summary by Sonia
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 05 February 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This fifth issue of volume 2 presents the following six short stories: “The Lost Paradise”, by Geik Turner and T. F. Anderson: a floating island gets its owner into political troubles “My Invisible Friend”, by Katharine Kip: witness the tragic outcome of an ingenious invention “Pendarvis, the Cracker”, by Allen Chamberlain: some people go to great lengths to avoid their daily work “Le Bretagne”, by W. A. Fraser: will the drowned sailor keep his promise to return to his wife by Christmas ? “Carmen Gutierrez”, by Edward Sylvestre: a tragic love in the times of the Cuban war for independance “Regina”, by Grace Frances Bird: the young seeds of budding love still bloom after many long years – Summary by Sonia