LibriVox recording of Steve and the Steam Engine by Sara Ware Bassett. Read in English by Brian Keenan Young Stephen Tolman disobeys his father and takes the family car out for a ride with a group of classmates, resulting in scratches and dings, not to mention running out of gas. Will he confess to the deed? Meanwhile, Stephen travels with his father to New York, getting into misadventures and learning the history of travel by rail and by steam along the way. Book 2 of the Invention Series....
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LibriVox recording of Discourse on Metaphysics by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (Translated by George Montgomery.) Read in English by Peter Tucker; This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphysics including the role of God in providing universal optimisation and order, along with the role and definition of individual substances including spirits, and the relation of the soul to the material body. He...
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LibriVox recording of Lords of the Stratosphere by Arthur J. Burks. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. What if space flight were homegrown? Not subject to mandatory information release and press conferences. After one goes up and doesn't return, what could be the strange occurrences that begin on Earth be ascribed to? Join earths best and brightest scientists to find out! (Summary by Christine Rottger) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS...
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Librivox recording of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title character was named after famous American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover,m4b or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 3) by A. A. Milne. Read in English by John and Katie Greenman. Winnie-the-Pooh is a children’s book by English author A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Published in 1926, it is a collection of short stories about an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. It is the first of two story collections by Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the second being The House...
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LibriVox recording of The Book of Evelyn by Geraldine Bonner. Read in English by MJ Rodriguez. "The Book of Evelyn" by Geraldine Bonner follows the journey of Evelyn, a widow who moves back to New York City to start afresh. She shares the experiences of a lonely woman in an apartment house, where she encounters colorful lodgers, including an enchanting prima donna. As she navigates the complexities of love and relationships, Evelyn discovers that even ordinary spinsters can find love,...
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LibriVox recording of POLLYANNA, by Eleanor H. Porter. Read by Phil Chenevert In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna has lost both her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to be raised by her aunt who lives far away in the East of the country. Unfortunately her aunt does not want her but accepts her very reluctantly only out of 'duty' and sticks her into a tiny hot attic room so she will be 'out of the way'. What Aunt Polly does not know is...
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Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works exploring the pieces of the formula generally seen in short horror stories ("articles") found in the Scottish periodical "Blackwood's Magazine" and the successful misapplication of said formula by - horrors! - a woman author! - respectively. Read by Catharine...
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LibriVox recording of Selected Poems by Robert Frost. Read in English by KevinS; Larry Wilson;Lee Vogler; Greg Giordano; Dereck Atwater; Dan McNellan. These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston" and "A Boy's Will." Included are some of Robert Frost's best known poems such as "Mending Wall" and "The Road Not Taken," but also some of his longer poems that are dialogs, or...
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Librivox recording of The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read by Kara Shallenberg Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centred child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely withdrawn into himself after the death of his wife. Mary gradually becomes drawn into the hidden side of the house: why does she hear the crying of a unseen child? Why is there an overgrown, walled garden, its door long...
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LibriVox recording of The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn. Read by Amy Conger. Florence Scovel Shinn, an illustrator living in New York City, became a teacher of New Thought after a divorce. New Thought was a movement which holds the belief that individuals can create their own reality through intentional thoughts and prayer, much like the current Law of Attraction movement. The Game of Life and How to Play It is her first book, and is remarkable for being written by a...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Full Tide by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2023. Read in English by Algy Pug; Agnes Robert Behr; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Garth Burton; Ian King; Inkell; jenno; KevinS; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Wilson; LeeSalter; Mayah; redrun; Sonya Copening and Tyson Alexandra. John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time....
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LibriVox recording of Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl by Egon Erwin Kisch. Read in German by Claus Misfeldt Der Fall "Redl" erregte im Jahr unmittelbar vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges großes Aufsehen in der österreichischen K.u.K. Monarchie - und darüber hinaus. Redl wurde als Chef des Generalstabes -selbst den Ruf eines unnachgiebigen Jägers von Spionen genießend- der Spionagetätigkeit für Rusland und andere Nationen überführt und daraufhin von der Militärführung...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Sweet Clover by Edgar Lee Masters. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 30, 2023. Read in English by Agnes Robert Behr; Brize C; Bruce Kachuk; Cynthia Malone; czandra; Inkell; Larry Wilson; Mayah; Patrick Randall; redrun and Scotty Smith. Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of...
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LibriVox recording of The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Read by JoeD. The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason challenges institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of Christianity. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic...
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LibriVox recording of The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Read by David Clarke. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and in the Levant during the historical events of 1815-1838 (from just before the Hundred Days to the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). It deals with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness. The...
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LibriVox recording of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre is a masterpiece of romance and hardship, penned by beloved author Charlotte Brontë. From a childhood spent as a dependent relation amongst cruel relatives and then as a student at a spirit-crushing charity school, Jane grows to become a remarkable woman: poor and plain in an era that viewed women as little more than ornaments, she believes in her own worth and craves independence and adventure. She becomes governess to a little...
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LibriVox recording of William -- The Fourth by Richmal Crompton. Read in English by David Wales The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. - Summary by David Wales For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a...
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LibriVox recording of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Read by Brad Filippone A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B 01-24...
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LibriVox recording of The Power-House by John Buchan. Read in English by Expatriate The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen, who features in a number of Buchan's novels. The urban setting contrasts with that of its sequel, John Macnab, which is set in the Scottish Highlands. The...
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LibriVox recording of Phantom Fortune, A Novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by chocmuse; Jothi Tharavant; Lynne Thompson; Vipal Prem; Vanessa Garcia; Catharine Birdwell; Caroline Morales; Mary Herndon Bell; Atang. Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she is taking care of her...
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LibriVox recording of Beyond These Voices by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in the world. But everything has a price. She tries to follow the conventions of the society which shunned her when she was poor. The novel explores themes such as love, money...
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Librivox recording of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Laurie Anne Walden. What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set on lonely Dartmoor in Devonshire. Neolithic ruins, a perilous quagmire, eerie sounds in the night, and (of course) fog all add to the fun, with an escaped convict thrown in for...
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LibriVox recording of The Guide for the Perplexed, Part One by Moses Maimonides. (Translated by Michael Friedländer.) Read in English by Daniel Davison; Sovietgnome; czandra The Guide for the Perplexed by Mūsá ibn Maymūn (known throughout the Christian West as Moses Maimonides) is regarded as one of the most important works of Medieval Jewish thought. The book attempted to harmonize the philosophy of Aristotle with the Rabbinical teachings, but was regarded by many at the time as...
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LibriVox recording of Keep Going by Edgar A. Guest. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Keep Going, by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 24, 2022. ----- This poem is often wrongly attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier, but the source we're using is a scan of a 1921 newspaper with Guest attributed as the author. The line, "Success is failure turned inside out," is taken from this poem. - Summary by TriciaG...
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Librivox recording of The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton. Read by Martin Clifton G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his other work. He is perhaps best remembered for his ‘Father Brown’ stories; two collections of which are available at Librivox.org. ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ has some similarities to the...
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LibriVox recording of The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective stories. The mysteries are solved by the detective priest, Father Brown. His application of shrewd, common sense to the unraveling of a succession of strange crimes and happenings rob them of the supernatural element attributed to them by the credulous. This is the third collection of similar stories. (Summary...
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LibriVox recording of Your Invisible Power, by Genevieve Behrend. Read by Algy Pug. Genevieve Behrend was a teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). Your Invisible Power, published in 1921, is her first and most famous book. It is a guide to the use of visualization and other mental processes in life enhancement and the achievement of personal goals. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD...
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Librivox recording of The History of the Peloponnesian War , by Thucydides. Read by Librivox volunteers The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) in the 5th Century BC. It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian general who served in the war. It is widely considered a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History...
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LibriVox recording of Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers by Edith Hubback Brown; John Hubback. Read in English by Bryn Roberts "Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" by Edith & John Hubback is a biography that explores the lives of Jane Austen's two sailor brothers, Francis and Charles. The book examines their naval careers, their relationships with their famous sister, and their impact on her writing. They begin with background information on the Austen family and the naval world of the late...
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LibriVox recording of The Return of Alfred, by Herbert George Jenkins. Read by Anna Simon. The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle and a railway strike he finds himself lost in the county of Norfolk at ten o’clock one night. When he seeks shelter in a country home, the butler immediately recognizes him as “Mr. Alfred”, the missing son of the house. From that point onwards, our hero, who...
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LibriVox recording of A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read in English by Terry Kroenung. A Confederate soldier travels to Mars and is embroiled in its politics and wars, becoming a great swordsman and hero. - Summary by Terry Kroenung For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader,...
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John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior martial abilities, and he is treated with deference by this fierce race. Falling in love with a princess of red humanoids (two-armed but egg-bearing), he contrives a daring escape and later rescues the red men from the hostility of another nation of...
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Librivox recording of The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Read by Jon Ingram For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org/ . Download M4B (46MB) CD booklet Album Art CD booklet Album Art
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LibriVox recording of Helen with the High Hand by Arnold Bennett. Read in English by Simon Evers James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great step niece, a determined young lady in her twenties, turns his whole world – and hers - upside down. The book humorously follows the fortunes of them both as we learn more about the pair. - (Summary by Simon Evers) For further information, including links to...
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Librivox recording of The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton. Read by David Barnes A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades. (Summary by David Barnes) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for...
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LibriVox recording of Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey. Read in English by Phil Chenevert; Lynne Thompson; Lucretia B.; Chris Cartwright; bala; KHand; Steve C; madcappe; rookieblue; Kajo; asterix; Jacob Paul Starr; ToddHW Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races reactions to someone from a diferent background. A series of adventures of a well educated foreigner in London which originally appeared weekly in the Punch , sometimes with...
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LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Frank Woodward Pine. Read by Gary Gilberd. Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions for good living which makes this work America’s first “How to Succeed” book. (Summary by Gary) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available),...
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LibriVox recording of Little Men (version 2), by Louisa May Alcott Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, Professor Bhaer. The mischievous children, whom she loves and cares for as her own, learn valuable lessons as they become proper gentlemen and ladies. We also get cameo appearances of almost all the characters found in the previous books, almost all of them happy and well. Meg's older two...
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LibriVox recording of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George...
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LibriVox recording of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read by Karen Savage. Orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, and finds herself in a house full of secrets and mysteries. (Summary by Karen Savage) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. Download M4B (197mb)
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LibriVox recording of Vixen , by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), read by LibriVox volunteers. This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry elsewhere. You may think it is the old story all over again, but nothing in this novel is what it seems. It is far too realistic for that. Many books talk about falling in love. This book...
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LibriVox recording of The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence. Read by Kirsten Ferreri. The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk and head cook in his monastery's kitchens. He quickly gained an international reputation as a mystic and spiritual counselor. The Practice of the Presence records his last words of advice to his friends and...
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LibriVox recording of The Children's Life of the Bee, by Maurice Maeterlinck. Read by Phil Chenevert Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for Literature, wrote a more scholarly work called The Life of the Bee but then rewrote it in simpler terms so that children could appreciate what goes in a hive. The book describes in simple language the inner workings of a hive from its beginning with a swarm...
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LibriVox recording of The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite by Duncan Forbes. (Translated by John Thompson Platts.) Read in English by dc. Originally written in Sanskrit by Somdev Bhatt, the Vetala Panchavimshati or Baitâl Pachchisi, also popularly known as Vikram Betal is a collection of tales and legends from India. Set in the 11th century, the tales intend to impart moral/social lessons. The practices may not be viable anymore to the letter but the basic message may...
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LibriVox recording of The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope. Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale, his friend Adolphus Crosbie, and the local boy, Johnny Eames, whose career in London is to mark him as far more than the "hobbledehoy" that he has earlier been...
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LibriVox recording of Kept In The Dark, by Anthony Trollope. Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, and also in book form in the same year. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of his indifference to her; she goes abroad and meets Mr George Western, who has been jilted by a beautiful girl. They marry but she does not tell him she has been previously engaged, although...
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LibriVox recording of An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope. Read in English by Anthony Ogus A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of his family that he will marry someone suitable for inheriting an Earldom - Summary by Anthony Ogus For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page...
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LibriVox recording of Persuasion by Jane Austen. Recording by Karen Savage. Several years before the events of the novel, Anne Elliott fell in love with a young and handsome but poor naval officer. She was persuaded by her friends and family to refuse him when he asked her to marry him. Now, eight and a half years later, she meets him again... For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the...
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LibriVox recording of Hokitika, New Zealand: The Birth of a Borough by Various Authors. Read in English by Beeswaxcandle A pamphlet version of four papers on the beginnings of the town and borough of Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand in the 1866. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more...
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LibriVox recording of Coffee Break Collection 036 - Cats by Various. Read in English by Librivox volunteers This is the 36th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection is "CATS" . Michele Fry. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox recording of Chrissy's Endeavor by Pansy. Read in English by TriciaG Eighteen year old Chrissy Hollister attends a Christian Endeavor Society meeting while away for the summer, and it changes her whole outlook on Christian service. She decides to begin a chapter at home. But she finds that the scheme is more difficult to bring about than she had expected. - Summary by TriciaG For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox recording of The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells. Read by Mark Nelson. H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon. (Summary by Mark Nelson) For further...
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Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by Ruth Golding And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some claim that Conan Doyle was writing more experimentally, rather than to the conventional Sherlock Holmes formula. Not all the stories are narrated by the faithful Watson, and the stories are regarded as the darkest of the Holmes canon,...
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LibriVox recording of The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins. After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf man, called The Lodger is obsessed with Cristel. He invites Gerard to tea with evil intentions… and Gerard accepts the invitation. The book is written in the first person and tells the story from Gerard's point of view....
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LibriVox recording of An Iron Will , by Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924). Read by Ruth Golding. Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals with the importance of a man developing his own will-power. Swett Marden here offers advice on how to achieve success and how to overcome disappointments through self-belief, persistence and determination, all within a spiritual and moral framework. For further...
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LibriVox recording of Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley. Read in English by Melora; Arnold A collection of amusing essays satirizing serious consideration of topics including natural history, social etiquette, or indeed, civilized behavior (especially of the upper classes). (Summary by Arnold Banner) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For...
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Librivox recording of The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace. Read by J. M. Smallheer. "That a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever have existed in the London of our day may seem impossible. Such a society, however, not only did exist, but through the instrumentality of a woman of unparalleled capacity and genius, obtained a firm footing. A century ago the Brotherhood of...
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Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can't help but love. Despite her "tragical" past, Anne's optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Anne's life changes considerably when she is accidentally adopted by the Cuthberts, a brother and sister who thought they were getting a boy to help out...
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LibriVox luisterboek van 'Een Kerstlied in Proza', door Charles Dickens, vertaald door J. Kuylmans. Gelezen door Bart de Leeuw. 'A Christmas Carol' is een Victoriaanse allegorie over een oude en verbitterde vrek, Ebenezer Scrooge, die in de nacht voor Kerstmis een aantal dromen heeft… (Samenvatting van Wikipedia) This is the Dutch translation of the book: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Voor meer gratis audioboeken (in meer dan 25 talen) of om zelf vrijwilliger te worden, ga naar...
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Topics: Librivox, audioboek, Dutch, Nederlands, Dickens, vertaling, Christmas, Kerstmis, Scrooge
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Dead Men's Shoes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by Michele Eaton; angelic1ang; chocmuse; Leena Emsley; K. Adrian Stroet; cathykirchner; Mary Herndon Bell; michelekilpatrick; Judi Mason Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her uncle's money after his death. But then she falls in love with...
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LibriVox recording of Knock Three-One-Two by Fredric Brown. Read in English by Ben Tucker A serial killer is on the loose and is thirsting for another kill. Meanwhile sad sack loser Ray Fleck, compulsive gambler, has racked up a lot of debt and is looking to do whatever it takes to get the money, even if his means betraying the dame he's shacked up with behind his wife's back. Ray is about to be plunged into a night of pure Hell as the city boils over with madness and violence. - Summary by Ben...
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LibriVox recording of Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge". Read by DebraLynn. A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job way too much; an anti-Catholic lord; a large and violent mob; and the British Militia—what do all these things have in common? All have, in some way, touched or been...
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Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Dracula (version 4) by Bram Stoker. Read in English by Corrinne LePage Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van...
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LibriVox recording of Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read by Librivox volunteers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a half later) Notes would be considered an avant-garde post-modernist triumph. In some ways this is a heavy text, laden with conversational...
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Topics: literature, audiobook, librivox, existentialist, ennui
Source: LibriVox recording of Gutenberg e-text
LibriVox recording of The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer. Read in English by Richard Kilmer A girl from the East finds herself confronted with a strange type of man with an ancient grudge. Dakota, the man, first convinces her that he is a brute beyond redemption and then gradually wins her back. Before this happens there has been an attempted bribe, an attempted murder that seems the response to the bribe and a wild ride through the night, that ends at Dakota's cabin.(Summary by...
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LibriVox recording of The Eyes of the Movie by Harry Alan Potamkin. Read in English by Chuck Williamson "The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Impresario, Imperialist." So begins Harry Alan Potamkin's The Eyes of the Movie, a posthumously published indictment of Hollywood. It is a savage socialist critique of the film industry, its practices, and products. Potamkin takes aim at the...
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LibriVox recording of Short Story Collection Vol. 102 by Various. Read in English by Librivox volunteers Here we present the 102nd Short Story Collection, comprised of stories selected by Librivox readers. Algernon Blackwood, Saki and Anton Chekhov and others are represented, so sit back and enjoy! For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more...
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LibriVox recording of The Path to Prosperity by James Allen. Read in English by Sonnie Abdalla ‘The Path to Prosperity’ (sometimes rendered as The Path of Prosperity) is part one of James Allen’s first published work titled ‘From Poverty to Power’ alternatively titled ‘The Realization of Prosperity and Peace’ (1901). Part one is an empowering volume which is likely to enlighten the reader as to how much power they have over outward circumstances by virtue of their own thoughts....
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, meditation, prosperity, self-help, spirituality, law of attraction, motivation
LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting...
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LibriVox recording of The Thirty-Nine Steps (Version 2) by John Buchan. Read in English by Tom Haire. Richard Hannay thirsts for adventure. Down and out in early retirement in South London, Hannay bores of the easy life. When Franklin Scudder reveals a secret ploy to set all of Europe to arms, Hannay finds his cure. With experience, intelligence, and a good deal of luck, Richard Hannay peels the layers one step at a time. (Summary by Tom Haire) For further information, including links to online...
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Librivox recording of King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. Read by John Nicholson. King Solomon's Mines , first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the legendary wealth said to be concealed in the mines of the novel's title. It is significant as the first fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, adventure, Africa, mines, diamonds
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Clown, The Circus Dog by Auguste Vimar. (Translated by Nora Hills.) Read in English by TR Love This children's book follows the life of Clown, whose adventures lead the reader on an exciting journey into show business. - Summary by TR Love For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, dogs, animals, circus
LibriVox recording of The Paying Guest, by George Gissing. Read by a full cast. Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a light on class struggles in the Victorian era, The Paying Guest offers a look at just what "proper society" expects. (Summary by Amanda Friday) Cast : Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Clarence Mumford: AllenJohns Emmeline Mumford: Arielle Lipshaw Louise Derrick: Amanda Friday...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, dramatic reading, gissing, paying guest
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Moon Rock by Arthur J. Rees. Read in English by Yoganandh T Robert Turold has a monomania - An English title which had fallen into abeyance hundreds of years ago. Just when he was about to stake his claim, he is killed, and his daughter is the suspect. She too disappears under mysterious circumstances after Robert confides to his relatives that his daughter is illegitimate. Who killed Robert Turold? What hold did his manservant Thalassa had over him? - Summary by...
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