LibriVox Audio Books
The Firelight Fairy Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Beston
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll
Read by Ted Delorme
Robert G. Ingersoll
Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for…
Lost Illusions
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy,…
The Children of the New Forest
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Frederick Marryat
The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…
Evangeline
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…
Adam Bede
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…
The Odyssey
Read by Peter Dann
Homer
Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed…
The Curse of Capistrano
Read by Barry Eads
Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley
The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox).…
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
Read by Sibella Denton
L. Frank Baum
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
The Story of the Other Wise Man
Read by David Leeson
Henry van Dyke
You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Beth…
Twenty Years After
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Volume 2 of The d'Artagnan Romances begins twenty years after "The Three Musketeers." Since then, d'Artagnan's career has stagnate…
Twelve Years a Slave
Read by Rob Marland
Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…
History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
Read by Sibella Denton
Gaston Maspero
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in t…
When a Man's a Man
Read by KevinS
Harold Bell Wright
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
Joshua
Read by Joy Chan
King James Version
The history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to the death of Joshua. (Summary by Joy Chan)
The Wind in the Willows
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Kenneth Grahame
Join Mole and Water Rat for terrifically fun romps along a river and through burrows and forests . . . visiting with Otter and Mr. Badger, a…
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Read by Crawford Logan
Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a gripping murder mystery set in 1886 Melbourne. The story begins when the body of a man is dis…
The Patience Of Maigret
Georges Simenon
The Patience of Maigret is a captivating radio adaptation of Georges Simenon's work, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 FM on August 21, 1977. A…
Anna Karenina
Read by MaryAnn
Leo Tolstoy
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn …
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
H. Rider Haggard
This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of th…