LibriVox Audio Books
Just So Stories
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio b…
What Men Live By
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 Mill on the Floss
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
The Bryant family - widowed Mrs. Bryant and her children Benjamin, Caroline ("Line" for short), and little Daisy - is on the thin …
Apology of Socrates
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Plato
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charg…
The Great Encyclical Letters
Read by Maria Therese
Pope Leo Xiii
Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, reigned from 20 Feb…
The Mystery of Cabin Island
Read by James R. Hedrick
Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American detective and from their father learned the particulars of a number of unusual crimes. The…
A Room of One's Own
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…
The Red and the Black
Read by Peter Dann
Stendhal
It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…
Guilt of the Brass Thieves
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Brass is being rationed for the war effort when someone begins stealing it from a factory. Through a series of her typical adventures Penny …
The Wishing Horse of Oz
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…
The Law
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Frédéric Bastiat
"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…
Maezli
Read by Daryl Wor
Johanna Spyri
"Mäzli" may be pronounced the most natural and one of the most entertaining of Madame Spyri's creations. The atmosphere is cr…
Of the Love of God
Read by dave7
Saint Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop of Geneva from 1602, was a renowned spiritual director who produced two classic guidebooks for earthly …
The Secret Doctrine
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
In this work of comparative religion, ontology and epistemology, Mme. Blavatsky presents science as a belief system of as much value as othe…
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 Grandfathers' War
Read by Phil Chenevert
Murray Leinster
Another twisty tale from Murray Leinster about that busy little Med Ship fixing problems throughout the universe. In this case, the med serv…
As a Man Thinketh
Read by Andrea Fiore
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…
2 Kings
Read by Joy Chan
King James Version
The history of the kings of Judah and Israel until their downfall. (Summary by Joy Chan)
The Man Who Fought the Devil
Read by Maria Therese
Eva K. Betz
Jean Marie Vianney always found it hard to learn. In fact, he made history by receiving a zero as his examination mark after his first year …