LibriVox Audio Books
Secrets of the Woods
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William J. Long
The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without thi…
Dawn
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Eleanor H. Porter
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going …
Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance
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James Allen
The problem of life consists in learning how to live. It is like the problem of addition or subtraction to the schoolboy. When mastered, all…
The Black Museum
Read by Orson Welles
Harry Alan Towers
The Black Museum, opening in 1875, is the oldest museum in the world dedicated to recording crime. Coined in 1877 by a reporter, the name &q…
Great Astronomers
Read by MaryAnn
Robert Stawell Ball
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astro…
Robinson Crusoe
Read by Mark F. Smith
Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …
The Shuttle
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She al…
Pride and Prejudice
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…
The Ivory Child
Read by Elaine Twiddle
H. Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall. (Introduction by laineyben)
Fanny Herself
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Edna Ferber
Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally co…
What Men Live By
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Leo Tolstoy
Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…
Queen Lucia
Read by Martin Clifton
E. F. Benson
E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was th…
The Ghost Beyond the Gate
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only da…
Twelve Years a Slave
Read by Rob Marland
Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…
By Ox Team to California
Read by Sue Anderson
Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…
The Keeper of the Bees
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…
Adam Bede
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…
The Mark of Zorro
Read by Mark F. Smith
Johnston Mcculley
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to the…
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
Read by Sam Stinson
Polycarp
Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians (often simply called To the Philippians) composed around 110 to 140 AD is described by Irenaeus as foll…
Lilith
Read by Pete Williams
George MacDonald
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…