Free audio books online
The Romance of Plant Life - George Francis Scott-Elliot
The Romance of Plant Life - George Francis Scott-Elliot
- Author: George Francis Scott-Elliot
- Genre: Nature
Romance needs not always indicate a love story. In the series "The Library of Romance", authors look at the romantic side of science. The different books cover all different disciplines, including chemistry, astronomy, engineering, and, as in this...
The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel - G. T. Fleming-Roberts
The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel - G. T. Fleming-Roberts
- Author: G. T. Fleming-Roberts
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara Sutton the girl who loves him ... the BLACK HOOD had to face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's...
The Crimes of England - G. K. Chesterton
The Crimes of England - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / History
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not tell the Eskimos that snow is bright green; nor tell the negroes in Africa that the sun never shines...
The Baltimore Catechism, No. 2 - Anonymous
The Baltimore Catechism, No. 2 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A catechism is a summary of the principles of Christian religion and articles of the faith. The Baltimore Catechism specifically was the de facto standard Catholic school text in the United States from 1885 to the late 1960s. It was the first such...
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I - Xueqin Cao
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I - Xueqin Cao
- Author: Xueqin Cao
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor characters tell the fortunes of the Chia...
On the Trail of the Space Pirates - Carey Rockwell
On the Trail of the Space Pirates - Carey Rockwell
- Author: Carey Rockwell
- Genre: Science Fiction
Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, and other media in the 1950s.The stories followed the adventures of Corbett and other...
Lord Tedric (version 2) - E. E. Smith
Lord Tedric (version 2) - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
The best of science fantasy meets the best of science fiction as Tedric battles his way through two universes of adventure: In one universe...Tedric the Ironmaster wields the mightiest sword his world has ever seen - and swears to break the power of...
From Queen's Gardens - A Chorus of Many Voices - Various
From Queen's Gardens - A Chorus of Many Voices - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is the final part of From Queen's Gardens. The previous four parts were collections of poetry by eminent English poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Adelaide A. Procter, and Christina Rossetti. This final part of the same volume is...
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself in trouble again and is forced to abandon his old home. As the search for a new home begins, Chatterer's curiosity gets the better of him and a moment of carelessness causes him to stumble into a far...
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G K Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered an epic poem. The poem narrates how Alfred was able...
Pee-Wee Harris (Version 2) - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris (Version 2) - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Last summer I went down to where my uncle lives and spent vacation there and I had a peach of a time and all the things I did are told in the first story, but there are a lot of things left over and I’m going to tell these in another story. There...
Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: World English Bible
Paul's letter to the Philippians contains some of the most quoted passages of the pastoral letters, including "to live is Christ and to die is gain" and "closes with the poetic passage urging Christians to contemplate whatever is true, pure and...
Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls - Various
Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems about children, but for children. Neither does this mean that they are childish, but rather...
Thrice Welcome - Harrison S. Morris
Thrice Welcome - Harrison S. Morris
- Author: Harrison S. Morris
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Thrice Welcome from Poor Robin's Almanac. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 11, 2011. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in England in the 17th century. It ran until sometime in the 18th...
The Story of a Bad Boy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Story of a Bad Boy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his...
Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the...
Bible (ASV) 16: Nehemiah - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 16: Nehemiah - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
"The Book of Nehemiah, sometimes called the Second Book of Ezra, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. It is historically regarded as a continuation of the Book of Ezra, and the two are frequently taken together as Ezra-Nehemiah. Traditionally, the author...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac - Charles W. Colby
Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac - Charles W. Colby
- Author: Charles W. Colby
- Genre: Early Modern
The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded theCompany of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the institutions under which theylived...
The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organization lies culprit and an infiltration of it is in...
Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth - Hermann Hesse
Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth - Hermann Hesse
- Author: Hermann Hesse
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Somewhat autobiographical, this "coming of age" novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, from grade school through college. Hesse likens this confusing process to a giant bird struggling to break out of its...
Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Short Stories
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the changing mores of American society. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," wallflower Bernice is taken in hand by her more...
Jaffery - William John Locke
Jaffery - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The book follows the lives of Hilary, the narrator, and three of his friends whom he met at Cambridge. One soon dies - another (Adrian) writes a hugely successful novel and marries Doria. Jaffery is a larger than life character who falls in love...
Christian Non-Resistance, In All Its Important Bearings - Adin Ballou
Christian Non-Resistance, In All Its Important Bearings - Adin Ballou
- Author: Adin Ballou
- Genre: Christianity - Other
In this short book, Ballou defends the notion that non-resistance (today we call it non-violence) is the superior Christian method, and the one practiced by Jesus himself. (Summary by lukeprog)...
The Rainbow and the Rose - E. Nesbit
The Rainbow and the Rose - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children". These poems are primarily for adults, although a few are written for her daughters. The majority are philosophical...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Short Stories
LibriVox readers present the sixth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in...
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous...
The Feast of Lights - Emma Lazarus
The Feast of Lights - Emma Lazarus
- Author: Emma Lazarus
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / House & Home / Other religions
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 18, 2011. Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, is the Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Holy...
The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 - Carl Sandburg
The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS...
Bracebridge Hall - Washington Irving
Bracebridge Hall - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
Famed American humorist and essayist Washington Irving published a series of short pieces entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman" in 1815. Included in that collection were the chapters which later formed the standalone work "Old...
When I Was One And Twenty - A. E. Housman
When I Was One And Twenty - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of When I Was One And Twenty (No. XIII in A Shropshire Lad) by A.E. Housman. This was the weekly poetry project for June 14th, 2009....
The Climber's Dream - Edward Woodley Bowling
The Climber's Dream - Edward Woodley Bowling
- Author: Edward Woodley Bowling
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edward Woodley Bowling was apparently a rector at the Church of All Saints in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England in the late 1800's, this poem is taken from Sagittulae, Random Verses.In this book's introduction he writes "The general reader...
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com, consist of works printed in the Muscatine Journal,...
The Story of Gladstone's Life - Justin McCarthy
The Story of Gladstone's Life - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimately divided it over the issue of Irish Home Rule, which he unsuccessfully championed. He brought to...
The Cowardly Lion of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Cowardly Lion of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Cowardly Lion, always fearful, has become even more afraid than usual and is convinced that he has lost the courage the Wizard of OZ gave him man years ago. To remedy this he decides to follow the dubious advice from the Scrapwork Girl, to 'find...
Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk - Harry Brittain
Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk - Harry Brittain
- Author: Harry Brittain
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterway system - a system that evolved gradually by natural flooding as a consequence of extensive peat digging...
The Wheels of Chance - H. G. Wells
The Wheels of Chance - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a Drapers Assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on a 2 week tour of the countryside. And his world will never be the same again.(Summary by annise)...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, cooking, humor, medicine, theater, philosophy, memoirs....
My Doggie and I - R. M. Ballantyne
My Doggie and I - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that brings these unlikely friends together and merges their separate paths of life into one common path. The bond...
The Vagabond - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Vagabond - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 2012. The Vagabond appeared in Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses, which was published after his...
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than some of Burgess' other children's books, much of this book chronicles the tense predator-prey relationship of a...
