LibriVox Audio Books

Emily's Quest

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by Nancy Halper 4.8
Her school years behind her, Emily is back home at her beloved New Moon. She continues to climb “the Alpine path” as she watches her deares…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

The Art of Controversy

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by Carl Manchester 4.7
The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…

A Red Wallflower

by Susan Warner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A motherless girl finds life very lonely living with only her dour father and two servants in the quiet New England countryside. Lonely, tha…

The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by John Lieder 4.7
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, we foll…

Handy Mandy in Oz

by Ruth Plumly Thompson Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in…

Notes on Nursing

by Florence Nightingale Read by Cori Samuel 4.8
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll Read by Craig Franklin 4.8
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is probably one of the most well known and popular children's novels in the English language. Written in 18…

1 Samuel

by American Standard Version Read by Sam Stinson 4.9
The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh'muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism's Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old …

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…

Royal Children of English History

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.8
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 thin…

Overruled

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Overruled continues the journey of Marjorie Edmonds, a young woman navigating the complexities of life and faith. Set against the backdrop o…

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

by M. R. James Read by Peter Yearsley 4.9
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…

Sense Memory

by Brion J. Humphrey Read by Brion J. Humphrey 4.7
If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…

Wired Love

by Ella Cheever Thayer Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.8
A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife

by Frances M. A. Roe Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…

Maigret's Special Murder

by Georges Simenon 4.8
Maigret’s Special Murder is a gripping dramatization that aired on Saturday, March 22, 1986, on BBC Radio 4 FM. Adapted by Malcolm Stewart f…

Saint Athanasius

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by pattymarie 4.8
A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a …

Eyebright

by Susan Coolidge Read by Lynne T 4.7
"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.7
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…

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