Downloads and Free Reading Options

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America. (Summary by Denny)

2Diversions in Sicily

By Henry Festing Jones

Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to them. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

3Note-Books of Samuel Butler

By Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones

Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason for making them:<br></br>“One’s thoughts fly so fast that one must shoot them; it is no use trying to put salt on their tails.”<br></br>So he bagged as many as he could hit and preserved them, re-written on loose sheets of paper which constituted a sort of museum stored with the wise, beautiful, and strange creatures that were continually winging their way across the field of his vision. As he became a more expert marksman his collection increased and his museum grew so crowded that he wanted a catalogue. In 1874 he started an index, and this led to his reconsidering the notes, destroying those that he remembered having used in his published books and re-writing the remainder. The re-writing shortened some but it lengthened others and suggested so many new ones that the index was soon of little use and there seemed to be no finality about it. In 1891 he attached the problem afresh and made it a rule to spend an hour every morning re-editing his notes and keeping his index up to date. At his death, in 1902, he left five bound volumes, with the contents dated and indexed, about 225 pages of closely written sermon paper to each volume, and more than enough unbound and unindexed sheets to made a sixth volume of equal size. - Summary by Henry Festing Jones

A short series of Christian sermons covering a range of topics, with the common thread throughout being the relationship between what we do know, what we may know, and what we cannot yet know about our lives, our world, and our faith. - Summary by Devorah Allen

5Book of American Negro Poetry

By Otto Leland Bohanan, William Stanley Braithwaite, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, James Edwin Campbell, Waverly Turner Carmichael, James David Corrothers, Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., Ray G. Dandridge, Daniel Webster Davis, R. Nathaniel Dett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Jessie R. Fauset, Leslie Pinckney Hill, John Wesley Holloway, Roscoe C. Jamison, Charles Bertram Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Edward Smyth Jones, Joshua Henry Jones, Jr., George Reginald Margetson, George Marion McClellan, Claude McKay, William H. A. Moore, Alex Rogers, Theodore Henry Shackelford, Anne Spencer and Lucian B. Watkins

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers. This is the first edition of this long-republished anthology and collects seminal works by Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and many more. - Summary by ChuckW

6Year When Stardust Fell

By Raymond Fisher Jones

The story of The Year When Stardust Fell is not a story of the distant future or of the remote past. It is not a story of a never-never land where fantastic happenings take place daily. It is a story of my town and yours, of people like you and me and the mayor in townhall, his sheriff on the corner, and the professor in the university—a story that happens no later than tomorrow. It is the portrayal of the unending conflict between ignorance and superstition on one hand, and knowledge and cultural enlightenment on the other as they come into conflict with each other during an unprecedented disaster brought on by the forces of nature. - Summary by The Author

7Unveiling a Parallel

By Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Robinson Merchant

In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant. A man travels to Mars to discover an Utopian world which is parallel to the Earth in some ways, but strikingly different in some. The freedom of women is not of this world. It is especially intriguing coming from the imagination of these two American women in the 19th Century. Summary by A. Gramour

8Cubs of the Wolf

By Raymond Fisher Jones

The Markovian Nucleus was once an existential threat to the council worlds, but then, in the space of only 70-80 years, their culture completely changed. They became model galactic citizens and everyone was too relieved to question their good fortune. Now, Doctoral Candidate Cameron Wilder and his new bride, Joyce Wilder, are on the case. What actually happened to the Markovians? - Summary by Katzsteinz

9Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks

By May Farinholt Jones

"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story Books" is the most fascinating of all lands, and therefore the Author has endeavored to weave hygienic facts into stories that will appeal to the child's imagination. She believes the truths of hygienic living and habits in the stories will "creep up on the blind side," so to speak, and impress themselves upon the young mind." -from the Foreword <br><br> This book was published in 1916, and therefore represents what was then known of the science of health and hygiene (and, of course, the social morés of the time). Listeners will find that, while some of these stories have not aged well, others reflect an accurate understanding of the body, and all have a certain charm. - Summary by Devorah Allen

Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the American Friends Service Committee). One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century, he was a Quaker historian and theologian as well as a philosopher. In 1917 he helped found the American Friends Service Committee. This work was delivered as a Swarthmore Lecture in August 1920 and was printed by the Swarthmore Press Ltd. (Summary by Wikipedia & John Greenman)

This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly takes it victims and leaves its survivors, malaria is a debilitating infection. It seizes all, fit and unfit alike, gradually lessening the general vitality until, in some cases, it has exterminated the people among whom it has become endemic. Extensive evidence has been compiled and summarised from consultation with medical authorities, antique literature, and historical sources to show how this insidious disease has undermined the integrity of a pair of ancient empires, and ultimately became a factor in their downfall. - Summary by Leon Harvey

This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as follows. In the struggle for existence man has competed, not only with his fellow-men, but also with wild animals and disease- parasites. The fight against beasts was decided long before the historic period, but parasites have always been, and still are, formidable opponents. Whole tribes have been wiped out by plague, kala-azar and measles; and even when the disease-parasite does not win such a decisive victory, it often weakens a nation so much that the latter falls an easy victim to its healthier neighbours. This volume will show how malaria played a part in the decline of the ancient Greeks, along with statistics presented from the Greek Anti Malarial League, and evaluation of malarial literature. (Summary by Leon Harvey)

13Year When Stardust Fell (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

By Raymond Fisher Jones

Emergency can take any form. Here is a story in which the mechanical foundation of our culture is threatened... But more important, this is what happens to a small, college town caught up in such disaster. How quickly do its people dispense with their men of science and turn to superstition and mob rule for hope of survival? - Summary by The Author<br><br> Cast of Characters:<br> Narration: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br> Ken Maddox: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br> Professor Henry Maddox, bystander: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16205">James R. Hedrick</a><br> Mrs. Maddox: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16999">Krista Zaleski</a><br> Maria Larsen: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13075">Rita Boutros</a><br> Professor Larsen, Dave Whitaker, Mr. Allen, Dr. Hart: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8011">Greg Giordano</a><br> Mrs. Larsen, grouch: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13661">Lynette Caulkins</a><br> Granny Wicks, Dr. French: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13140">Jenn Broda</a><br> Sheriff Sam Johnson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9698">Doug Fajardo</a><br> Mr. Wilkins, Al Miner, Jed Tucker, Harry Mason, irate man, defender: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17752">redrun</a><br> Sam Cluff, Deputy Henry Atkins, Dr. Adams, Mr. Harris, radio DJ: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17823">hmpecker</a><br> Joe Walton: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11806">Navin</a><br> Art Matthews: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17837">Damian Andrews</a><br> Ted Watkins: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br> Frank Abrams, Mike Travis, Paul Remington, Dr. Whitehead: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12980">Wayne Cooke</a><br> Rev. Aylesworth, Dan Morris, radio announcer, Chicago ham, woodcutter: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11395">Rich Brown</a><br> Sally Teasdale: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17993">Mackenzi Flannery</a><br> Mayor Bill Hilliard: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16160">John de Silva</a><br> Mrs. Watkins, Miss Haskins, defender: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18047">Sarah Foster</a><br> Frank Meggs, Tom Doyle, nomad: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5717">Phil Chenevert</a><br> W6YRE, Dr. Smithers: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17767">Michael Broomhill</a><br> Professor Douglas, John Vickers, Mark Wilson, Ernest Parkin, guard, defender, nomad, worker, worried guy: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18128">quartertone</a><br> Mr. Tucker: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16758">Ben Tucker</a><br> Judge Rankin, grouch: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15806">czandra</a><br> Berkeley ham: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278">KevinS</a><br> Indignant woman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17990">Isabel McBride</a><br> Sam Baker, John Sykes, Hank, sympathetic citizen, Pasadena ham, defender: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16209">Christine Rottger</a><br>

This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles written originally in the popular press of the time (The London Daily Express): Arnold Bennett, Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Compton Mackenzie, J.D. Beresford; Israel Zangwill, H deVere Stacpoole, Henry Arthur Jones, and several prominent clergy. - summary by david wales

A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel

This volume is an attempt to study historically and critically the religious movement inaugurated in the New World by the Quakers , a movement important both for the history of the development of religion and for the history of the American Colonies , and to present it not only in its external setting but also in the light of its inner meaning . - Summary by Rufus Jones

This is seminal work by one of the most influential Christian Missionaries, explores the implications of Christ in the context of Indian culture and Hindu values. E. Stanley Jones was an intimate friend of Mahatma Gandhi, and the Nehru family and a confidant of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Price and was awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize. Jones spread the Ashram movement internationally. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Bible students and Bible readers have long felt the necessity for some commentary which should aim simply and solely at helping the spiritual life of those who use it. The Religious Tract Society is now producing a series of volumes designed to fill this gap. In every case the aim has been so to comment upon the words of Holy Scripture as to help the spiritual life of the reader. There has, of course, been some treatment of perplexing passages and a steady attempt to draw out the general character as well as the particular lessons of each book. - Summary by Series Preface

Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” emerged. This descriptive and analytical narrative explores the growth and the changes in direction of jazz music, and the effect on it of religious and economic as well as artistic and individual influences. - Summary by R. P. Jones, in Preface