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[audio]Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (transl. Constance Garnett)
Librivox public domain recording of Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (transl. Constance Garnett). Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; literature
Downloads: 19,575
Average rating: 2.75 stars (4 reviews)
[audio]Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 - Anonymous (attrib: Kathleen Luard)
LibriVox recording of Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, by an anonymous author, attributed to Kathleen Luard. Read by: Ruth Golding, Julie VW, Christine Dufour and Marianne Coleman-Hipkins. The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; first world war; nursing; hospital; ambulance train; western front; Ypres; France; Belgium
Downloads: 425
Average rating: 3.0 stars (3 reviews)
[audio]Dracula - Bram Stoker
LibriVox recording of Dracula, by Bram Stoker. The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn't invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public's imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. Listen and you will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van Helsing, plus an array of madmen, psychiatrists, and fair maidens who cross ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature
Downloads: 219,791
Average rating: 2.33 stars (3 reviews)
[audio]The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes
LibriVox recording of The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Read by Lee Ann Howlett. The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes was inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. An older couple, the Buntings, are forced to take in lodgers to make ends meet. They are on the verge of starvation when a mysterious man, Mr. Sleuth, appears at their door and asks for lodging, paying in advance. However, when the murders of young women in London attributed to a man known only as "The Avenger" continue, the Buntings,...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; mystery; Avenger; Lowndes
Downloads: 5,219
Average rating: 4.33 stars (3 reviews)
[audio]The Danger Trail - James Oliver Curwood
Librivox recording of The Danger Trail by James Oliver Curwood. Read by Roger Melin. Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most treacherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that was forbidding, as he begins to understand why the previous engineers sent on the same mission had been forced to give up the task and flee back to the south...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; fiction; adventure; romance; Canada
Downloads: 655
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Bhagavad Gita - Sir Edwin Arnold
LibriVox recording of Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold. The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of a climactic war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and Prince and elaborates on a number of different Yogic[7] and Vedantic philosophies, with examples and analogies...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook
Downloads: 20,615
Average rating: 3.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Coming Race - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
LibriVox recording of The Coming Race, by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Read by Maire Rhode. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." Despite his popularity in his heyday, today hi...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; science fiction; sci-fi; Vril-ya
Downloads: 1,945
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne
LibriVox recording of The Coral Island, by R. M. Ballantyne, read by Tom Weiss. Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Sea islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as his dreams. Shipwrecked on a large, uninhabited island, Ralph and his fellow survivors, Jim and Peterkin, discover a world of hostile natives and villainous pirates...
Keywords: ballantyne; audio; adventure; shipwreck; pirates; south seas; librivox; audiobook; children; teens
Downloads: 2,125
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
LibriVox recording of "The Beautiful and Damned", by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Read by E. Tavano. It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. (Summary from Wikipedia) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; fiction; literature; F. Scott Fitzgerald; socialite; alcoholism; Anthony Patch; 1920s
Downloads: 6,416
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Librivox recording of The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterrane...
Keywords: monte cristo; dumas; librivox; audiobook; adventure; romance
Downloads: 187,964
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Farewell - Honoré de Balzac
LibriVox recording of Farewell, by Honoré de Balzac. Read by Martin Geeson. In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the wings; the Lady of Shalott waits for the shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; French literature; war stories
Downloads: 373
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Told after Supper - Jerome K. Jerome
LibriVox recording of Told after Supper by Jerome K. Jerome. Read by Ruth Golding. It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when... But no, I won't spoil the fun. This is a little gem: Jerome at his tongue-in-cheek best. (Summary by Ruth Golding) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; short stories; humour; humor; fiction; ghost; Christmas
Downloads: 649
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]The Daffodil Mystery - Edgar Wallace
LibriVox recording of The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.[citation needed] He is most famous tod...
Keywords: daffodil; mystery; fiction; edgar; wallace; librivox; audio book
Downloads: 15,141
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
LibriVox recording of Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge", read by DebraLynn, proofed and produced by Karen Merline. A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job way too much; an anti-Catholic lord; a large and violent mob; and the British Militia—what do all these things have in common? All have, ...
Keywords: LibraVox; audio books; Victorian novel; novel; Gordon Riots
Downloads: 1,496
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]The Magic City - E. Nesbit
LibriVox recording of The Magic City, by E. Nesbit. Read by Ruth Golding. Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of their incredible adventures in those magical lands, where they meet characters from books and history, mythical beasts, and many other nice (and not so nice) people and creatures. As with all Edith Nesbit's tales, The Magic City has generous helpings of humour, imagination and interesting ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; children; animals; magic; adventure
Downloads: 1,035
Average rating: 4.5 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Case of Jennie Brice - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Librivox recording of The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Read by Wina Hathaway. The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a murder has been committed at her boarding house. Jennifer Ladley aka Jennie Brice is missing and with the help of Mr. Holcombe, a quirky gentleman with a passion for mysteries, they embark on a quest for the truth behind the disappearance of Jennie Brice...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; mystery; fiction
Downloads: 5,827
Average rating: 4.5 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
LibriVox recording of The Flaming Forest, by James Oliver Curwood. Read by Roger Melin. A tale of mystery, romance, and honor, as David Carrigan must choose between his duty as an officer of the law and a girl who holds him captive; a girl who Carrigan thinks he may have fallen in love with no less! Who is this strange girl Jean-Marie, and why won't she give him his freedom? And who are the people that she surrounds herself with along the great Canadian rivers and wilderness barrens and forests ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; mystery; romance; Canada; curwood
Downloads: 1,573
Average rating: 5.0 stars (3 reviews)
[audio]Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse
LibriVox recording of Indiscretions of Archie, by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Mark Nelson. It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industr...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; wodehouse
Downloads: 10,605
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]Greener Than You Think - Ward Moore
LibriVox recording of Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore. Read by Lee Elliott. Do you remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction wherein a pushy salesman, a cash-strapped scientist, and a clump of crabgrass accidentally merge forces with apocalyptic consequences...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; science fiction
Downloads: 2,497
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Librivox recording of Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him "Scaramouche" (also called Scaramuccia, a roguish character in the commedia dell'arte), but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship...
Downloads: 34,220
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
LibriVox recording of The Black Moth, by Georgette Heyer. Read by Sibella Denton. The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughter. Cheating at cards, the marital problems of the younger sister of the Duke and the younger brother of the Earl, and debts beyond imagination form the backdrop for this romance, Heyer's first work and the only one in the public domain...
Keywords: Romance; historical fiction; literature; audiobook; Librivox
Downloads: 4,132
Average rating: 3.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Dear Enemy - Jean Webster
LibriVox recording of Dear Enemy, by Jean Webster. Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are the president of the orphanage where Sallie is filling in until a new director can be installed, his wife (Judy Abbott of Daddy-Long-Legs), and the orphanage's doctor (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: "Dear Enemy")...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; fiction; webster; letters
Downloads: 8,051
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
LibriVox recording of A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father). For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: fiction; mystery; disappearance; green; audiobooks; librivox
Downloads: 3,192
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Probable Sons - Amy le Feuvre
LibriVox recording of Probable Sons, by Amy le Feuvre. Read by Laura Caldwell. Little Milly is left an orphan after the death of her mother and sent to live with her bachelor uncle, who has no use for children, especially of the female variety. As the days go by, his heart warms to his endearing niece who wants all probable sons to come home, including her very own probable uncle. (Summary by Laura Caldwell) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Christian fiction; prodigal son; orphans
Downloads: 725
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]First Love - Ivan Turgenev trans. Constance Garnett
LibriVox recording of First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett. Read by Martin Geeson. The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the chara...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; love; romance; novella
Downloads: 1,503
Average rating: 4.5 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
LibriVox recording of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. Read by Great Plains. The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole by extension is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Daphne du Maurier, and Stephen King...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; walpole; gothic
Downloads: 3,167
Average rating: 4.67 stars (3 reviews)
[audio]The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
LibriVox recording of he Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, by Sax Rohmer. Read by Elaine Tweddle. Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their malignant enemy returns to England. (Summary by Elaine Tweddle) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; mystery
Downloads: 1,023
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]Lone Star Planet - H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
LibriVox recording of Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper & John J. McGuire. Read by Mark Nelson New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dangerous. Unfortunately it's common knowledge that the s'Srauff are evolved from canine ancestors—and not a Texan alive is about to be scared of a talking dog! But unless he can get them to act, and fa...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; science fiction; sci-fi; texas
Downloads: 721
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]A Wodehouse Miscellany; Articles and Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
Librivox recording of A Wodehouse Miscellany by P.G. Wodehouse. Read by Kevin McAsh. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blanding Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies (excerpts from Wikipedia)...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; wodehouse
Downloads: 24,724
Average rating: 2.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Against the Grain, or Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans
LibriVox recording of Against the Grain, or Against Nature, by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Read by Martin Geeson. “THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the Bible of Decadence. Accurate descriptions, both, of this bizarre masterpiece which has reverberated ever since through high and popular culture...
Keywords: librivox; audio; literature; huysmans; decadence; dorian gray; oscar wilde; des esseintes; anti-hero; tortoise; sex; perversion
Downloads: 461
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]Tacitus' Annals Vol 3 - Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
LibriVox recording of The Annals Vol 3 by Publius Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, read by LibriVox volunteers. The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books 7-12 presumably covered the reigns of Caligula and Claudius...
Keywords: audio books; LibriVox; history; Rome; Roman History; Ancient Rome; Tacitus
Downloads: 1,461
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Zastrozzi, A Romance - Percy Bysshe Shelley
LibriVox recording of Zastrozzi, A Romance, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read by Martin Geeson. "Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!" From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure "with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge", this first of Shelley’s Gothic novelettes recycles much sensational boyhood reading and also points to some of his more mature concerns...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; percy shelley; horror; suicide
Downloads: 252
Average rating: 3.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]A Man of Means - P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
Librivox recording of A Man of Means by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. Read by Tim Bulkeley. A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a nondescript young man to whom financial success comes through a series of "lucky" chances, the first from a win in a sweepstake he had forgotten entering...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; Wodehouse; fiction; humor; short stories
Downloads: 4,569
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Librivox recording of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles. Read by Moira Fogarty. "The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest and most famous studies of strategy and has had a huge influence on both military planning and beyo...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; war; Sun Tzu; Sunzi; Lionel Giles
Downloads: 161,463
Average rating: 5.0 stars (3 reviews)
[audio]The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
LibriVox's public domain recording of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. Read by Peter Yearsley Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels, but is now best known as the author of "The King In Yellow"...
Keywords: librivox; audio book; book; the king in yellow; chambers; robert w. chambers; public domain; free
Downloads: 24,298
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
LibriVox recording of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse. Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets Read by Adrian Praetzellis Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; allegory; India; Gautama Buddha; spiritual journey; enlightenment; Brahmin; ascetics
Downloads: 15,833
Average rating: 5.0 stars (4 reviews)
[audio]Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Librivox recording of Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Mark Nelson Bertram Wooster’s manservant, Jeeves, is renown for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie’s friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves’s fame, decides to step in and take over as the fixer of his pal’s engagement, his aunt’s gambling debts and old school-mate’s desire to propose marriage...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; Jeeves; Wodehouse
Downloads: 50,880
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Librivox recording of My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Mark Nelson Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It's up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant houseguests, stingy uncles, broken hearts, and hard-partying aunts. (Summary by Mark Nelson) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; Jeeves; Wodehouse
Downloads: 32,196
Average rating: 5.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]Love Among the Chickens - P. G. Wodehouse
Librivox recording of Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Mark Nelson Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge's neighbors, Phyllis. Soon he is up to his neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a sinister plot, and dirty golf...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; Wodehouse
Downloads: 45,368
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Librivox recording of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read by Adrian Praetzellis. A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; pirates; Stevenson; treasure; children's literature
Downloads: 37,453
Average rating: 5.0 stars (8 reviews)
[audio]The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Librivox recording of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read by David Barnes The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer Utterson is driven to investigate Edward Hyde, the unlikely protege of his friend Dr Henry Jekyll, suspecting the relationship to be founded on blackmail...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; stevenson; jekyll; hyde
Downloads: 64,931
Average rating: 5.0 stars (4 reviews)
[audio]The Abbots Ghost or Maurice Treherne Temptation - Louisa May Alcott
LibriVox recording of The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation by Louisa May Alcott Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tries to win the hand of his love, Octavia.(Summary by Jennifer Stearns) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: fiction; romance; alcott; abbots; ghost; audio books; librivox
Downloads: 331
Average rating: 1.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Erema - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
LibriVox recording of Erema, by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the unforgiving Californian desert, looking in vain for the landmark that marks the short-cut across those last western mountains which would lead them to the home of an old friend. George Castlewood gives all the water and rations he has to his daughter, Erema, and dies just a short distance from hel...
Keywords: Librivox; Audiobooks; histrical fiction
Downloads: 766
Average rating: 3.0 stars (2 reviews)
[audio]The Poison Belt - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
LibriVox recording of The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Mark F. Smith. Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; fiction; mystery; adventure; science fiction
Downloads: 3,998
Average rating: 4.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Librivox recording of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain. Read by Steve Andersen For more free audiobooks or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; humor
Downloads: 78,069
Average rating: 4.0 stars (5 reviews)
[audio]Diary of a U-Boat Commander - Sir Stephen King-Hall
LibriVox recording of Diary of a U-boat Commander, by Sir Stephen King-Hall. Read by Mark F. Smith. Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of class and any infringement on his place. He thinks he is handsome, has a suitably manly physique, an excellent singing voice, and a facility with writing. His wartime service related in his diary is a series of triumphs over harrowing circumstances, bringing his...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; war; u-boat; king-hall
Downloads: 7,436
Average rating: 5.0 stars (1 review)
[audio]Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
Librivox recording of Moby Dick, or the Whale, by Herman Melville. Read by Stewart Wills Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have ...
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[audio]The Money Moon: A Romance - Jeffery Farnol
LibriVox recording of The Money Moon: A Romance, by Jeffery Farnol. Read by John Lieder. The Money Moon is a light-hearted romance. Jilted in love, our American millionaire hero, George Bellow, takes a walking tour of the Kent countryside to overcome the “Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been”. Along the way he makes friends with a young boy out to discover a fortune to save his Aunt Anthea from having to sell the family estate and George discovers his ideal “Arcadia” and true love...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; romance; farnol
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[audio]Deathworld - Harry Harrison
LibriVox recording of Deathworld, by Harry Harrison. Read by Gregg Margarite. Harry Harrison (1925 - ) is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; science fiction; harry harrison
Downloads: 4,715
Average rating: 4.75 stars (4 reviews)
[audio]The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Caspak” trilogy. His working title for the story was “The Lost U-Boat.” Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Keywords: librivox; adventure; action; science-fiction; burroughs; literature; caspak series
Downloads: 9,854
Average rating: 4.0 stars (2 reviews)
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