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	The Sea Wolf - Jack London LibriVox recording of The Sea Wolf, by Jack London. Read by Tom Crawford. The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime." (Summary by Wikipedia) For mo... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; sea adventure; fiction Downloads: 2,718 Average rating: (1 review)
	Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare LibriVox recording of Twelfth Night. In the main plot of this play, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes dead. Masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose father and brother have recently died, and who will have nothing to do with any suitors, the Duke included... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; play; comedy; shakespeare; twelfth night Downloads: 1,760 Average rating: (1 review)
	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2) - Mark Twain LibriVox recording of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time)... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; humor; time travel; twain; adventure Downloads: 7,785 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad Librivox recording of Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad. Read by Stewart Wills. A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C... Keywords: librivox; lord jim; joseph conrad; conrad, joseph; conrad Downloads: 55,086 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	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: (4 reviews)
	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: (5 reviews)
	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 ... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature Downloads: 241,025 Average rating: (8 reviews)