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[audio]A Dialogue between a Methodist and a Churchman - William Law
Librivox recording of A Dialogue Between a Methodist and a Churchman by William Law. Read by Kirsten Ferreri David Barnes William Law (1686-1761) was an Anglican priest, Christian mystic, and one of the most prominent, popular, and controversial theological writers of his time. Law revolutionized the way in which 18th century Anglicans engaged the spiritual aspect of their faith, and his popularity rivaled that of John and Charles Wesley...
Keywords: librivox; non-fiction; religion
Downloads: 997
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[audio]Revelations of Divine Love - Julian of Norwich
Librivox recording of Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich, translated by Grace Warrack. Read by David Barnes Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is uncertain, the name “Julian” coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress...
Keywords: librivox; non-fiction; religion
Downloads: 1,966
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[audio]As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
Librivox recording of As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. Read by Mark Cawley Allen's books illustrate the use of the power of thought to increase personal capabilities. Although he never achieved great fame or wealth, his works continue to influence people around the world, including the New Thought movement. Allen's most famous book, As a Man Thinketh, was published in 1902. It is now considered a classic self-help book...
Keywords: librivox; non-fiction; philosophy; thought
Downloads: 19,051
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[audio]The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun smoke dissipated, leaving a little crossroads town in Pennsylvania heir to the human tragedy of over 7,000 corpses and 21,000 men suffering wounds. It was a most unnatural disaster.On November 19, the chief executive made the trip to the still-dazed, shot-torn community to deliver, almost as an afterthought (for he was not the keynote speaker), an address t...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; gettysburg; lincoln
Downloads: 3,109
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[audio]Life of the Spider - J. Henri Fabre
LibriVox recording of The Life of the Spider, by J. Henri Fabre. Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 22, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras...
Keywords: librivox; nature; spiders; non-fiction
Downloads: 615
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[audio]Lu Yu (Analects) read in Chinese - Confucius
LibriVox recording in Chinese of 論語 Lún Yǔ (Analects of Confucius), in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers and has a link to the text in Chinese and English. 孔子(公元前551年9月28日-前479年),子姓孔氏,名丘,字仲尼,鲁(今中國山东曲阜)人,中国春秋末期的思想家和教育家。孔子是中华文化中的核心学说儒家的首代宗師,集華夏上古文化之大成,在世時已被譽為...
Keywords: librivox; non-fiction; philosophy; chinese; confucianism
Downloads: 13,447
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[audio]Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
LibriVox recording of MUTUAL AID: A FACTOR OF EVOLUTION, by Peter Kropotkin. Read by Enko. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had originally been published in 1890-96 as a series of essays in the British monthly literary magazine, Nineteenth Century...
Keywords: librivox; science; evolution; non-fiction
Downloads: 2,053
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[audio]Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English - Samuel Johnson
Librivox recording of A Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English by Samuel Johnson. Read by Denny Sayers. The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. ($400?). It would be years before “Johnson’s Dictionary”, as it came to be known, would ever turn a profit; authors’ royalities being unknown at that time, Johnson, once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, ...
Keywords: librivox; non-fiction; language; history
Downloads: 2,314
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[audio]The Power of Concentration - Theron Q. Dumont
LibriVox recording of The Power of Concentration, by Theron Q. Dumont. Read by Andrea Fiore. A series of twenty lessons designed to help develop and improve the power of concentration. (Summary by Andrea Fiore) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; instruction; non-fiction; concentration
Downloads: 6,216
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[audio]The Wealth of Nations - Book 1 - Adam Smith
LibriVox recording of The Wealth of Nations, Book 1 by Adam Smith. Read by Stephen Escalera. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and is widely considered to be the first modern work in the field of economics...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; economics
Downloads: 16,428
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[audio]The Wealth of Nations, Books 2 and 3 - Adam Smith
LibriVox recording of The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith. Read by Stephen Escalera. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and is widely considered to be the first modern work in the field of economics...
Keywords: librivox; economics; audiobook; non-fiction
Downloads: 3,628
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[audio]I love Lucy Final - Jennifer lally
Final
Keywords: creative non fiction
Downloads: 102
[audio]The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Also Known As Deadwood Dick - Nat Love
Librivox recording of The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Also Known As Deadwood Dick by Nat Love Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living and working as an equal with white ...
Keywords: librivox; non fiction; action
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[audio]LibriVox New Releases - Audiobook Samples - LibriVox Volunteers
These new releases podcasts are short samples of but a few of LibriVox's newest audiobooks âall available for free! LibriVox is currently producing 40-80 new public domain audiobooks every month! LibriVox.org is an on line volunteer community dedicated to producing free public-domain audiobooks in all areas of interest: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, plays and more.. Volunteers all over the world are working 24 hours a day to produce natural recordings of classics in literature, history, the...
Keywords: podcast; audiobook; fiction; non-fiction; mp3
Downloads: 367
[audio]1912: Short Works Collection - Various
LibriVox recording of 1912: Short Works Collection. Read by Bellona Times. This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fiction but a few short stories are included. (Summary by Bellona Times) For more information on authors and sources, see: http://librivox.org/1912-short-works-collection/ For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; 1912; essay; non-fiction; short story
Downloads: 853
[audio]Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists - varous, translated by various translators
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first men in the Western world to establish a line of inquiry regarding the natural phenomena that rejected the traditional religious explanations and searched for rational explanations. Even though they do not form a school of thought, they can be considered the fathers of philosophy and many other sciences as we have them now...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; philosophy; Ancient Greece
Downloads: 3,232
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[audio]Birds in the Calendar - Frederick G. Aflalo
LibriVox recording of Birds in the Calendar, by Frederick G. Aflalo. Read by Ruth Golding. Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This collection of articles, reprinted in book form from the periodical The Outlook, is full of fascinating information about bird behaviour and habitat, as well as many interesting anecdotes...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; nature; countryside; birds; shooting; conservation
Downloads: 380
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[audio]Royal Children of English History - E. Nesbit
LibriVox recording of Royal Children of English History by E. Nesbit. Read by Cori Samuel. From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one of these days. And the people you read about in history were real live people, who were good and bad, and glad and sorry, just as people are now-a-days." E...
Keywords: non-fiction; biography; history; librivox; audiobooks; children
[audio]The Concept of Nature - Alfred North Whitehead
LibriVox recording of The Concept of Nature, by Alfred North Whitehead. In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompassing 'philosophy of nature' are examined, with specific reference to contemporary (Einstein, with whose theory of relativity he has some complaints) and ancient (Plato, Aristotle) approaches...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; philosophy; science; time; space
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[audio]Dr. Esperanto's International Language, Introduction and Complete Grammar - L.L. Zamenhof
LibriVox recording of Dr. Esperanto's International Language, Introduction and Complete Grammar, by L.L. Zamenhof. Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater. In July 1887, Esperanto made its debut as a 40-page pamphlet from Warsaw, published in Russian, Polish, French and German: all written by a Polish eye-doctor under the pen-name of Dr. Esperanto (“one who hopes”). Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917) had a gift for languages, and a calling to help foster world amity: by a neutral “Internacia ...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; zamenhof; esperanto; non-fiction; language
Downloads: 6,866
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[audio]National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report - National Gambling Impact Study Commission
LibriVox recording of The National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report. The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and economic implications of gambling in the United States. This report presents the principal findings of that work and recommendations for action. (Summary from the Introduction, modified by Sam Stinson) For more free audio books (in more than 25 languages) or to become a volunteer ...
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; non-fiction; United States; gambling; commission; report
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[audio]Great Pirate Stories - Joseph Lewis French
LibriVox recording of Great Pirate Stories, by Joseph Lewis French. Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century or so ago, under one phase or another of piracy. If men were savages on land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime adventure--years that added to the map of the world till there was little left to ...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; pirate; pirate; non-fiction
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[audio]History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 07) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
LibriVox recording of History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 07), by Thomas Babington Macaulay. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; history; england; non-fiction; macaulay
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[audio]An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
LibriVox recording of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism addressed toward the former book. In it, Hume explains his theory of epistemology, and argues against other current theories, including those of John Locke, George Berkeley, and Nicolas Malebranche...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; hume; philosophy; non-fiction
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[audio]Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. Alpheus
LibriVox recording of 'Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism', by A. Alpheus. Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the mid-to-late nineteenth century that it became a particularly fashionable way to explore the human mind...
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; non-fiction; hypnotism; mesmerism; mind-reading
Downloads: 1,530
[audio]Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Adye
Librivox recording of Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch, by General Sir John Adye. Read by David Barnes "The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale are being conducted against a combination of the independent tribes along the frontier...
Keywords: librivox; non-fiction; history; india; empire; afghan; great game
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[audio]In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
LibriVox recording of In The Field (1914-1915) by Marcel Dupont. Read by FNH. I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last nine months on an immense front. I only speak of things I have seen with my own eyes, in the little corner of the battlefield occupied by my regiment...
Keywords: LibriVox; literature; audiobook; war stories; WWI; non-fiction; Dupont
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[audio]Klore's Controversy Corner - "Klore"
The following files are interviews I have conducted with interesting people on controversial topics, plus other files on controversies (including those on conspiracy theory and research). Many thanks to my interviewees and those who helped me put these files together. Visit my website for more - http://kmweb.110mb.com/ Best Wishes, Klore
Keywords: Controversies; conspiracies; theories; interview; literature; research; non-fiction
Downloads: 69
[audio]The Life of Cicero, Vol. I - Anthony Trollope
LibriVox recording of The Life of Cicero, Vol. I, by Anthony Trollope. Read by Philippa. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his strength ...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; biography; Cicero; Roman Republic
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[audio]The Life of Cicero, Vol. II - Anthony Trollope
LibriVox recording of The Life of Cicero, Vol. II, by Anthony Trollope. Read by Philippa. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his strength...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; biography; Cicero; Roman Republic
Downloads: 437
[audio]When Mother Lets Us Cook - Constance Johnson
LibriVox recording of When Mother Lets Us Cook, by Constance Johnson. Read by Kara Shallenberg. A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils needed for the preparation of each dish. (Summary from the text) You can download the illustrated text here: Google Books: When Mother Lets Us Cook. For more free audiobooks, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; children; johnson; cooking; cookbook; non-fiction
Downloads: 10,416
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[texts]NZgenelect08
List of party names(full and abbrieviated) registered for New Zealand's 2008 General Elections as of 16:58 08.10.2008 (NZT).
Keywords: Government; political; text; non-fiction; truth; freedom
Downloads: 8
[audio]The Romance of Missionary Heroism - John C Lambert
LibriVox recording of The Romance of Missionary Heroism, by John C Lambert. Read by David Leeson. The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature in all parts of the world.” The thrilling accounts in this collection include stories of Jacob Chamberlain’s medical ministry in India, the dangers faced by Alexander Mackay in Uganda, James Chalmers’ work among...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; missionary; religion; travel; history
Downloads: 239
[audio]Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010 - Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, read for Librivox by several volunteers. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature and religion. Here is the list of included works: Dream-Children:A Reverie by Charles Lamb (1775-1834) - Source: E-text - Read by: Joyce Berger The Man Who Thinks Backwards by G.K...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; short stories; non-fiction; essays; speeches
Downloads: 1,897
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[audio]The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Leander Stillwell
LibriVox recording of The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by Leander Stillwell. Read by Sue Anderson Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell felt a duty "to help save the Nation;" but, as with many other young men, his Patriotism was tinged with bravura: "the idea of staying at home and turning over senseless clods on the farm with the cannon thundering so close...
Keywords: Civil War; army life; Soldier; Illinois; memories; non-fiction
Downloads: 878
[audio]A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
LibriVox recording of A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they ...
Keywords: audiobook; librivox; adventure; travel; comedy; Europe; Non-Fiction
Downloads: 1,568
[audio]Confessions, volumes 1 and 2 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
LibriVox recording of Confessions, volumes 1 and 2, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Read by Martin Geeson. “Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.” Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken. Some readers may be repelled by his tendency to revel in embarrassing accounts of humiliation and fiasco, as if he were striving too hard to achieve an ultimate nakedness, a nakedness of t...
Keywords: LIbrivox; audiobook; non-fiction; memoirs; psychology; Rousseau
[audio]Pantheisticon - John Toland
LibriVox recording of Pantheisticon, by John Toland. (Translator unknown). Read by Alessandro Gagliardi, Ruth Golding, Leni and Anna Simon. Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society. Divided into Three Parts. Which Contain, I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood. II. Their Deity and Philosophy. III. Their Liberty, and a Law, neither deceiving, nor to be deceived...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; philosophy; pantheism; Toland
[audio]The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen
LibriVox recording of The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism. In the book, Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; economics; Veblen; Leisure Class; utility
[audio]A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 1 - David Hume
LibriVox recording of 'A Treatise Of Human Nature', Volume 1 by David Hume. Read by George Yeager. This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how they are to be divided. It includes important statements of Scepticism and Hume's experimental method. Part 1 deals with the nature of ideas. Part 2 deals with the ideas of space and time...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; philosophy; human nature; Hume; Scepticism
[audio]Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne - Dorothy Osborne
LibriVox recording of the Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne. Read by Ruth Golding, Annise, breathe, Ezwa, Landii, Neeru Iyer, Rhonda Federman and Anna Simon. A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration [summary by hefyd] After refusing a long string of suitors put forth by her family, including her cousin Thomas Osborne, Henry Cromwell (son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) and ...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; love letters; Osborne; Temple
[audio]Father and Son - Edmund Gosse
LibriVox recording of Father and Son by Edmund Gosse. Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who dies early and painfully of breast cancer, is a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, is an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his...
Keywords: non fiction; gosse; memoirs; religion; audiobook; librivox
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[audio]The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé - Harry Houdini
LibriVox recording of The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé, by Harry Houdini "A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc.", [by Harry Houdini, from the subtitle]. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: non fiction; miracle; mongers; houdini; audiobooks; librivox
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[audio]Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys - Amelia B. Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical travelogue in in 1873. The book describes her travels through a relatively un-visited area in the South Tyrol district of Italy. The Dolomites are a part of that most famous of mountain chains, the Alps. In this book, the Writer and her friend and companion, L., travel from Southern Italy, having over-wintered there, to visit the Dolomite district. Her chatty style, dry sense of humor, accuracy of facts, and sympathy for humanity set her works apart...
Keywords: travel; edwards; librivox; non fiction; untrodden peaks
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[texts]A Discourse on what goes on within our Skulls.
A Discourse on what goes on within our Skulls. Notes on millenial affairs with a concern on technology and advancement with righteousness allways.
Keywords: essay; truth; religion; notes; non-fiction; text files; text; experimental; freedom
Downloads: 35
[audio]The Book of Art for Young People - Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir Martin Conway
LibriVox recording of The Book of Art for Young People, read by Kara Shallenberg. This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in the original text. The authors explain the story behind the paintings, as well as the life, times, and techniques of the artists. You may find downloadable versions of all sixteen paintings at http://www.archive.org/details/Book_of_Art_Illustrations_lv, and you can easily do a go...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; art; art history; artists; children; non-fiction
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[audio]The Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus
LibriVox recording of The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, translated into English by John Wilson. Read by Anna Simon. The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is a satirical essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/69-1536), a Dutch humanist...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; philosophy; humanist; Erasmus; satire; non-fiction; Moriae Encomium
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[movies]m.m.i.s - Raymond Paterson
Based on Top Secret footages stolen from a low profile government. A trailer for the feature length documentary, 'm.m.i.s'.
Keywords: documentary; feature; non-fiction; independant; conspiracy; truth; lies; secrets; uncovered; reality; interviews; trailer; reconstruction; reenactments
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[texts]De Nederlandse Project Gutenberg Reader, januari / februari 2009 - Branko Collin
A sampler of recent Dutch texts published at Project Gutenberg between 20 October 2008 and 25 December 2008.
Keywords: Couperus; Verne; Buysse; Beecher Stowe; literature; non-fiction; Gezelle; Van Woude; York; anthology; translations
Downloads: 17
[audio]The Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
LibriVox recording of PIRATES OF PANAMA, by Alexandre Exquemelin. This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America was soon translated into the principal European languages. The first English edition was printed in 1684...
Keywords: librivox; pirate; adventure; non-fiction; history; sea stories; young adult
Downloads: 2,279
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