LibriVox Audio Books
My Inventions and Other Works
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Nikola Tesla
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…
On the Irrawaddy
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the num…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection
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Various
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
A Peep Behind the Scenes
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Read by Bob Neufeld
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…
The Call of the Wild
Read by Phil Chenevert
Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period…
The Art of Controversy
Read by Carl Manchester
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…
Common Sense
Read by Bob Neufeld
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…
The Shore Road Mystery
Read by Anthony St. Pierre
Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy Boys track down a ring of car thieves - summary by Anthony St. Pierre
Discourses of Epictetus
Read by Christine Rottger
Epictetus
Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear eve…
Pragmatism
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
William James
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view …
Give Me Liberty
Read by Mark F. Smith
Patrick Henry
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…
Henry Ford's Own Story
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the &q…
Pride and Prejudice
Read by Karen Savage
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It …
The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
Dramatized by Gregory Norminton, E. M. Forster's story, written at the beginning of the last century, takes place in a future where people c…
Christianity and Liberalism
Read by InTheDesert
John Gresham Machen
The purpose of this book is not to decide the religious issue of the present day, but merely to present the issue as sharply and clearly as …
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Classic Serial presents Virginia Woolf's iconic novel, Mrs Dalloway, which unfolds over a single day in June. This dramatization, adapted by…
Wired Love
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Ella Cheever Thayer
A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…
Dragon Ore
Read by Brian Rathbone
Brian Rathbone
A World of Godsland novel. Clinging to life, Catrin Volker struggles to regain her strength as her foes go in search of even greater power. …
