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War Is a Racket
Read by John Greenman
Smedley Butler
Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lie…
Sermons of Leo the Great
Read by Jonathan Lange
Leo The Great and Pope Leo I
Leo the Great was unanimously elected Bishop of Rome on September 29, 440 AD. At the Council of Chalcedon, his famous "Tome" was a…
Far Above Rubies
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
Proverbs 31:10-11 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust i…
The King of the Golden City
Read by Maria Therese
Mother Mary Loyola
This charming allegory will bring to the heart of the child a deep love for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and an understanding of the gr…
Japanese Fairy Tales
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Yei Theodora Ozaki
First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…
1 Samuel
Read by Sam Stinson
American Standard Version
The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh'muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism's Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old …
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
Our Village
Read by Anne Fletcher
Mary Russell Mitford
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…
Neighbors
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…
Notes on Nursing
Read by Cori Samuel
Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …
The Chautauqua Girls at Home
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Sequel to Four Girls at Chautauqua, and also published under the title Obeying the Call. Ruth, Flossy, Eurie, and Ruth return home as new Ch…
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 …
Essays
Read by Bob Neufeld
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 1…
Little Miss Grasshopper
Read by Devorah Allen
Johanna Spyri
The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…
A Red Wallflower
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Susan Warner
A motherless girl finds life very lonely living with only her dour father and two servants in the quiet New England countryside. Lonely, tha…
Flood Tide
Read by Roger Melin
Sara Ware Bassett
Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on …
The Chessmen of Mars
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. Thes…
Dan, the Newsboy
Read by DaleBarkley
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Dan and his mother are poor, so he begins selling newspapers on the streets of New York City. His perseverance, hard work, and honesty are q…
Beyond Good and Evil
Read by Cori Samuel
Friedrich Nietzsche
By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Wes…
Maigret's Little Joke
Read by Nicholas Le Prevost
Georges Simenon
In this intriguing episode, when a sensational murder takes place in Paris, Maigret finds himself on holiday and must follow the investigati…