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	A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse Librivox recording of A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by yazpistachio and Madame Tusk. A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17 1919. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday Evening Post, between May and June that year.Golf-loving American composer George Bevan falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his t... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; Saturday Evening Post serial 1919; romance; humor; mistaken identity Downloads: 1,816 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Five Jars - Montague Rhodes James LibriVox recording of The Five Jars, by M.R. James. Read by Peter Yearsley. The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently written for children. While he is out walking, the narrator is drawn to a remote pool, and finds a small box that has been hidden since Roman times. He gradually learns how to use its contents, fighting off a series of attempts to steal it, and becomes aware of a strange world hidden fr... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; fiction; children; fantasy Downloads: 674 Average rating: (1 review)
	Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - William R. Lighton LibriVox recording of Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, by William R. Lighton. Read by Roger Melin. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. Their names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; history; united states; lewis and clark expedition; exploration; meriwether lewis; william clark Downloads: 935 Average rating: (1 review)
	Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Librivox recording of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; English literature; Thomas Hardy; Far From the Madding Crowd; rural life; tragedy Downloads: 75,271 Average rating: (1 review)
	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 Downloads: 935 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins Librivox recording of The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins. The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre: a large number of suspects, red herrings, a crime be... Keywords: detective novel; mystery; scotland yard; fiction; audio book; librivox Downloads: 27,313 Average rating: (1 review)
	North and South2 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell LibriVox recording of North and South, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England... Keywords: north; south; gaskell; librivox; literature; fiction Downloads: 14,504 Average rating: (1 review)
	Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens LibriVox recording of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers. Dickens’ last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, a rich dust contractor, in his will. To receive the money, John must marry a certain Bella Wilfer who he does not know from Eve... Keywords: librivox; literature Downloads: 54,819 Average rating: (1 review)
	Poems Every Child Should Know - Burt, Mary E. LibriVox recording of Poems Every Child Should Know, edited by Mary E. Burt. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize. Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; children; poetry Downloads: 217,716 Average rating: (1 review)
	Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West LibriVox recording of Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West. Read by Elizabeth Klett. In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper's daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; romance; adventure; women; amnesia Downloads: 921 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann R. Wyss LibriVox recording of The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann R. Wyss. Read by Kara Shallenberg. First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude toward wildlife (if it moves, shoot it). However, it’s a truly exciting adventure and a timeless story of warm and loving family life. As the narrator says: “It was written..... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; wyss; children; adventure; ship-wreck; family Downloads: 1,212 Average rating: (1 review)
	A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens LibriVox recording of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism.The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look very alike but are entirely different in character... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; dickens Downloads: 169,486 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Warden - Anthony Trollope LibriVox recording of The Warden, by Anthony Trollope. For more information on the readers for this book, please see the catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-warden-by-anthony-trollope Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and the clerical (The Barsetshire Chronicles) are the best known... Keywords: anthony trollope; the warden; audiobook; free; librivox; classic Downloads: 30,786 Average rating: (1 review)
	The World I Live In - Helen Keller LibriVox recording of The World I Live In, by Helen Keller. Read by Laura Caldwell. The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; essays; biography; helen keller; sense perceptions; dreams; imagination Downloads: 883 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: (1 review)
	Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope LibriVox recording of Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope. This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox.The old bishop dies, the archdeacon, Dr. Grantly fails to succeed him and a new bishop, Dr... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; trollope Downloads: 69,303 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux This is a LibriVox recording of The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux. Read by annise, Stuart Bell, Jc Guan, Ezwa, Simon Larois, Madera, Ted Nugent, O, Lars Rolander, J. M. Smallheer and Gloria Zbilicki. This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a ‘locked room mystery’, in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel ... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; yellow room; detective; mystery; crime; gaston leroux; rouletabille; police; France; French author Downloads: 124,650 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell Librivox recording of North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell. Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the aggressive northerners of the dirty, smoky industrial town of Milton. But as she adapts to her new home, she defies social conventions with her ready sympathy and defense of the working poor... Downloads: 83,723 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Stillwater Tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Librivox recording of The Stillwater Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Read by J. M. Smallheer. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, The Story of a Bad Boy and his collection of short stories, Majorie Daw and Other People. The Stillwater Tragedy which was first published in 1880 is set in a small New England manufacturing town whose tranquility is disturbed first by the ... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; mystery; fiction; New England Downloads: 1,201 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle LibriVox recording of The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Clive Catterall. Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother, Alleyn Edricson takes service with one of the foremost knights in the country. When Alleyn falls in love with the knight's daughter, he must prove himself to be a courageous and honourable knigh... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; historical fiction; knights; Hundred Years' War; Middle Ages; Doyle Downloads: 1,752 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers Librivox recording of Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. Read by Kara Shallenberg and Kristin Hughes The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just found a dead body in his bath, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. Whose body is it? Whodunnit? It’s up to Lord Peter to find out. (Summary by Kara and Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; mystery; Sayers; Lord Peter Wimsey Downloads: 25,437 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	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: (2 reviews)
	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: (2 reviews)
	The Adventures of Sally - P. G. Wodehouse LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Sally, by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally’s ambitious brother, an assortment of theater people, a pair of English cousins, and, of course, an Uncle. It’s jolly good fun! (Summary by Kara and Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks or to become a volunteer reader, p... Keywords: librivox; literature; humor; wodehouse; romance; fiction; young adult Downloads: 37,602 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - Fergus Hume “The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal streets of this great city, and is surrounded by an inpenetrable mystery... Keywords: librivox; mystery; murder; fiction Downloads: 4,227 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Heidi - Johanna Spyri LibriVox recording of Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. Read by Kara Shallenberg. Hear Heidi if you've ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; children; heidi; spyri Downloads: 55,946 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope LibriVox recording of Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope. Read by Andy Minter. This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of the queen (Flavia)'s feelings towards him. Flavia decides that this must be the last year in which she sends to Rudolf the single red rose that betokens her love, and therefore she also sends via Fritz von Tarlenheim, her letter of good-bye... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; adventure; romance; hope Downloads: 12,033 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith Librivox recording of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. Read by Martin Clifton Published in 1766 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith's behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off outstanding rent and to release himself from his landlady's arrest. It is the story of the family of Dr Primrose, a benevolent vicar, and follows them through their fall from fortune and their ultimat... Keywords: librivox; literature Downloads: 29,717 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins LibriVox recording of The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, read by Librivox volunteers. The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. The Woman in White is also an early example of a particular type of Collins narrative in which several characters in turn t... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; epistolary; mystery Downloads: 9,694 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope Librivox recording of The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Read by Andy Minter The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the King’s Life and his Throne from the King’s dastardly brother and his allies... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; Zenda; Hope Downloads: 35,596 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	No Thoroughfare - Charles Dickens A LibriVox recording of No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens. Read by Alan Chant. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean — across the Alps in winter... Keywords: librivox; literature; christmas Downloads: 13,967 Average rating: (4 reviews)