History
Buddhism and Buddhists in China
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lewis Hodous
Buddhism and Buddhists in China is an anthropological text describing Buddhism as practiced in China at the beginning of the 20th Century. I…
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal…
Antologia de Discursos em Português
Read by Leni
Various
Coleção de discursos famosos, traduzidos para o português ou escritos em português.
Richard II, Makers of History
Read by Cate Barratt
Jacob Abbott
Chronicles the life of Richard II, born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France, who later wore the crown of King of England. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
Manifeste du Parti communiste
Read by Prof. Tournesol
Karl & ENGELS, Friedrich Marx
Publié en 1848, en pleine Révolution industrielle, le Manifeste du Parti communiste est à la fois une critique acerbe d…
A Thousand Miles up the Nile
Read by Sibella Denton
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in …
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John George Nicolay
John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …
The Journey of Coronado
Read by Sue Anderson
Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
The Discovery of New Worlds
Read by Laura Caldwell
M. B. Synge
This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of…
The Female Quixote Vol. 1
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charlotte Lennox
The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the…
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
Read by Peter Yearsley
Allan Fea
“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …
With Clive in India
Read by Gary Olman
G. A. Henty
With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of t…
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
Read by David Leeson
Carlton Mccarthy
The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggl…
Third Class in Indian Railways
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1
Read by Sue Anderson
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
Read by John W. Michaels
Sinclair Lewis
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not…
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
Read by Tom Weiss
Dillon Wallace
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Read by Sue Anderson
Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…