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The Legend of St Julian the Hospitaller - 3 The Reparation

In Three Short Works

Read by David Barnes


Gustave Flaubert


Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

Qing Zhou Duan Zhao

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 001

Read by David Barnes


Ouyang Xiu and Xiu Ouyang


LibriVox’s first Multilingual Poetry Collection, where LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than …

031 - 夕次盱眙縣 (Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District) (Mandarin) by Wei Yingwu 韋應物

In 唐诗三百首 卷一 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1

Read by David Barnes


Wei Yingwu and Yingwu Wei 韋應物


The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architectur…

10. On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance11. The Lorentz Transformati…

In Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Read by David Barnes


Albert Einstein


This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and Genera…

Chapter 03

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by David Barnes


Written by David Barnes, recorded by David and Laura Barnes and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Adzanumee and her Mother

In West African Folk Tales

Read by David Barnes


William H. Barker


A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …

12 - The Eleven Guesses

In Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading)

Read by David Lawrence


L. Frank Baum


Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy cou…

Chapter 08

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

Read by David Barnes


Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Silver Blaze

In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Read by David Jaquay


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devise…

Sympathy

In Sympathy

Read by David Barnes


Paul Laurence Dunbar


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners wil…

05 - Introduction and Analysis: Section 2

In Timaeus

Read by David Huston


Plato, trans. Jowett and Plato


"Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study…

Essay 03 - Compensation

In Essays, First Series

Read by David Barnes


Ralph Waldo Emerson


“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

Book 1 - Chapters 1-10

In The Imitation of Christ

Read by David Barnes


Thomas à Kempis and Thomas À Kempis


The Imitation of Christ is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. The life of Christ is presented as the…

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