LibriVox Audio Books
Old Peter's Russian Tales
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Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public …
Father Goriot
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Pa…
As a Man Thinketh
Read by Audio Andrea
James Allen
As a Man Thinketh is a literary essay of James Allen, published in 1902. The title is influenced by a verse in the Bible from the Book of Pr…
The City of God
Read by Darren L. Slider
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them…
Maigret Has Doubts
Georges Simenon
Adapted for radio by Edward Bruce from the translation by Lyn Moir, this episode features the famous detective Jules Maigret as he navigates…
The Valley of the Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Jack London
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a captivating radio series that follows the adventures of Johnny Dollar, America’s freelance insurance investi…
United States Constitution
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
United States Government and Unit
The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…
The Masquerader
Read by Simon Evers
Katherine Cecil Thurston
In the London fog, two men bump into each other one night. They are immediately unnerved by their exact resemblance to each other. Jack Chil…
Siddhartha
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha…
Black Beauty
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Anna Sewell
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…
Outwitting The Hun
Read by David Wales
Pat O'Brien
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
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William Carpenter
A bit of pseudo-science that will baffle, confuse, and amaze! Until the Space Age, there was little every-day, self-evident proof that the e…
Men of Iron
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Howard Pyle
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is…
Notes from the Underground
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…
Eben Holden
Read by Roger Melin
Irving Bacheller
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…
Poetry of St John of the Cross
Read by Ed Humpal
Saint John Of The Cross
The poems of St John of the Cross, with their mystic depth and spiritual ecstasy, stand among the world's great poems of Divine Love in all …
What Men Live By
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Leo Tolstoy
Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…
The Scottish Fairy Book
Read by Nan Dodge
Elizabeth W. Grierson
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious r…
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Read by Kristin LeMoine
L. Frank Baum
This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that …