Free audio books online
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2 - Charles MACKAY
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2 - Charles MACKAY
- Author: Charles MACKAY
- Genre: Psychology / Modern (19th C) / Christianity - Other
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." "In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their...
Bible (WEB) NT 18: Philemon - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) NT 18: Philemon - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: World English Bible
While in prison, Paul writes this letter to another Christian, Philemon. Paul has met with and converted a man named Onesimus, probably a runaway slave, and he writes to Philemon, Onesimus's legal owner, to tell him that he is sending him back....
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories - Stephen Crane
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Crane's writing is characterized by vivid intensity,...
Pee-Wee Harris - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Genre: General
Percy Keese Fitzhugh was an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults. The bulk of his work revolves around the fictional town of Bridgeboro, New Jersey and has a scouting theme. One of his major characters was Pee Wee...
The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues - William Bernard Ullathorne
The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues - William Bernard Ullathorne
- Author: William Bernard Ullathorne
- Genre: Christianity - Other
William Bernard Ullathorne was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia from 1833 until 1840 and then returned to his native England, where he was ordained a bishop in 1847 and served as Bishop of Birmingham from 1850...
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi - Yone Noguchi
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi - Yone Noguchi
- Author: Yone Noguchi
- Genre: Poetry
"Yone Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. Critical evaluations of Noguchi, while varying drastically, have frequently stressed the enigmatic character of his...
The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Marvelous Land of Oz Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the highly magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkin-head, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump; the story being A...
Poems of American History, The Colonial Era - Various
Poems of American History, The Colonial Era - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Early Modern
A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing through the Age of Exploration to the colonies of Virginia and New Amsterdam, including the arrival of the Puritans,...
Unto Caesar - Baroness Orczy
Unto Caesar - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei for this slave. 'Tis too late now to make further bids for her." But a pair of large blue eyes, cold as the waters of the...
Romola - George Eliot
Romola - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Historical Fiction
George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is falling in love with a man who is going to change her life and the politics of Florence in a way she doesn't...
Eight Cousins (Version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins (Version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Family
This is the story of Rose Campbell, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts. When Rose’s guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad he takes over her care. Through his unorthodox...
Floyd's Flowers Or Duty and Beauty For Colored Children Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience Simple Amusing Elevating - Silas X. Floyd
Floyd's Flowers Or Duty and Beauty For Colored Children Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience Simple Amusing Elevating - Silas X. Floyd
- Author: Silas X. Floyd
- Genre: General
Truly the boys and girls of to-day ought to be thankful that they are alive. There never was such a golden age for childhood and youth as the present. To say nothing of the rich opportunities for mental and spiritual development, what a multitude of...
At Minas Basin and Other Poems - Theodore Harding Rand
At Minas Basin and Other Poems - Theodore Harding Rand
- Author: Theodore Harding Rand
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume by Canadian poet and educator Theodore H. Rand. The poems are short and varied, with beautiful expressions and reflecting many different emotions. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 082 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 082 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009....
Kitty Alone - Sabine Baring-Gould
Kitty Alone - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupying a promontory in the estuary of the Teign, in the south of Devon. Kate's father is a dreamer, always off on...
The Republic (version 2) - Plato
The Republic (version 2) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most...
Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West - Cyrus Townsend Brady
Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West - Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a missionary. “…the experiences are personal and actually occurred as they are set down, to the best of my...
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie - Algernon Blackwood
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large family fortune but just not interested in life. His father employs a teacher, John Hendricks, to take him on a world...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories - Bret Harte
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / Westerns
A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)...
Stories of Troubled Marriages - Ella D'Arcy
Stories of Troubled Marriages - Ella D'Arcy
- Author: Ella D'Arcy
- Genre: Family Life
Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are not. This short anthology comprises stories of the second variety, as expounded by some of our favorite...
Short Poetry Collection 044 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 044 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 044: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Poems of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
The Poems of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Anthologies
Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. From his Oxford undergrad days, through his rise to fame and scandal, all the way to his death, we witness an...
Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation) - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the Oresteia, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year in a...
The Island Queen - R. M. Ballantyne
The Island Queen - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The story of Dominic, Otto and Pauline Rigonda, three siblings who are blown onto an island after being shipwrecked, and are later joined by the immigrant passengers and crew of a ship that is wrecked on the same island. When the question of...
The Rising of the Tide - Ida M. TARBELL
The Rising of the Tide - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914. About a dozen characters people its story. It shows how the coming of the Great War effected each character, and the...
Dionysius the Areopagite, with other poems - Ann Hawkshaw
Dionysius the Areopagite, with other poems - Ann Hawkshaw
- Author: Ann Hawkshaw
- Genre: Poetry
An early figure in the birth of poetry in industrial Manchester, Ann Hawkshaw published three collections and another was circulated privately. Her first collection. published in Manchester and London in 1842, begins with an epic poem, Dionysius the...
The Worshipper of the Image - Richard le Gallienne
The Worshipper of the Image - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask in an antique shop and soon realizes it resembles his wife Beatrice. The death mask, Antony names "Silencieux," becomes...
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 1 - J. C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 1 - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
I send forth the volume now in the reader's hands, with much diffidence, and a very deep sense of responsibility. It is a peculiarly serious undertaking to attempt a Commentary on the Gospel of St. John. This "Commentary" is so extensive that it...
Dorothy Dale's Great Secret - Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Great Secret - Margaret Penrose
- Author: Margaret Penrose
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This is the third book in the Dorothy Dale series, written under the house pseudonym of Margaret Penrose. "Girls have to have secrets, or they wouldn't be girls, and we have now got ours." In this, the third book in the Dorothy Dale series, written...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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 protégé of his friend Dr Henry Jekyll,...
Dramatized Bible Stories of the Old Testament - King James Version
Dramatized Bible Stories of the Old Testament - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
Hear the stories of the Old Testament brought to life in this Dramatised Reading of selections from the King James Version. Feel the sweep of Bible history through the stories of key people: Adam and Eve, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua,...
Poems - George Santayana
Poems - George Santayana
- Author: George Santayana
- Genre: Single author
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his life writing. He is primarily known as a philosopher, his five-volume The Life of Reason being his magnus...
Hymns to the Night - Novalis
Hymns to the Night - Novalis
- Author: Novalis
- Genre: Poetry
"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a...
Select Sermons - Jonathan EDWARDS
Select Sermons - Jonathan EDWARDS
- Author: Jonathan EDWARDS
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian." His work is very broad in scope,...
Savrola - Winston S. CHURCHILL
Savrola - Winston S. CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston S. CHURCHILL
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania is the only major fictional work of Sir Winston S. Churchill. The story describes events in the capital of Laurania, a fictional European state, as unrest against the dictatorial government of president...
The Poor Little Rich Girl - Eleanor Gates
The Poor Little Rich Girl - Eleanor Gates
- Author: Eleanor Gates
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a children’s fantasy about a little girl named Gwendolyn who is lonely and longs for a friend. But she is isolated by rich parents who ignore her and left to the care of servants who are indifferent. Her nanny’s...
The Story of the Atlantic Cable - Sir Charles Bright
The Story of the Atlantic Cable - Sir Charles Bright
- Author: Sir Charles Bright
- Genre: Technology & Engineering
The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted the three most conspicuous features of late 19th century civilization. Indeed, it may be truly said that the harnessing electricity to the service of man for...
The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets - William Wordsworth
The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Sonnets / Nature
Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 25 miles through varied scenery before disappearing into the sands between Millom and Barrow-in-Furness....
Herodotus' Histories Vol 2 - Herodotus
Herodotus' Histories Vol 2 - Herodotus
- Author: Herodotus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Antiquity
The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC....
