Librivox

Librivox

An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers and is probably, since 2007, the world's most prolific audiobook publisher.[2] The LibriVox objective is "to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet".[3]
United States
62 Podcast shows
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Leaves of Grass

From one of America's best loved and most important poets comes a masterpiece. Leaves of Grass is considered by many to be the greatest collection of poetry ever produced by an American. And this, the 1855 First Edition Text, is considered the strongest and most important of the many editions…
26 Oct 2012 34 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts

Les Misérables Volume 2 : Cosette

This is volume 2 of 5. – An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray.
13 Dec 2012 76 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Midsummer Night's dream

Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds a dose of amateur theatre for good measure. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
8 Jul 2014 5 episodes English Read by Various Readers Comedy · Arts · Arts

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions,…
16 Jan 2014 44 episodes English Read by Stewart Wills Arts · Sports · Sports

On his blindness

From Short Poetry Collection http://iono.fm/c/1794?skip=12
22 May 2014 1 episodes English Arts

Othello

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago, Othello's jealous ensign, who plots to destroy their union…
22 May 2014 6 episodes English Read by Various Arts · Arts

Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and then straight on till morning. You know the story… and…
27 May 2013 17 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts · Kids & Family

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature – “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Its manuscript…
17 Oct 2012 60 episodes English Read by Karen Savage Arts · Arts

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies. Braving parental opposition, the teenage lovers marry in secret, with…
24 Jan 2014 6 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Selected 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 popular cousin, whose motives are not entirely altruistic…
9 May 2014 10 episodes English Read by Laurie Anne Walden Arts

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility: Victorian-Era Romance and Comedy. Marianne, the second daughter of the very dead Mr. Dashwood, has found love in the dashing Mr. Wiloughby. Elinor, the eldest, cautions Marianne to be more reserved, but the reproach falls on deaf ears. When Wiloughby is called away to London, how will…
30 Oct 2012 49 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Short Poetry Collection

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012.
3 Apr 2014 23 episodes English Read by Various Arts

Short Story Collection Vol. 007

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.
31 Jan 2014 20 episodes English Arts

Siddhartha

Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he…
9 Nov 2014 12 episodes English Read by Adrian Praetzellis Arts

Sonnet 30

Shakespeare's Sonnet 30, one of his most famous, is a reflection on sad memories reconciled by the realization of the gift he has in his friend.
4 Jul 2014 1 episodes English Read by Shengzhi Li Arts

Steps to Christ

Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movement, and was one of the principle founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Steps to Christ, first published in 1892, is her most popular book. It…
24 Mar 2015 13 episodes English Read by Donald Hines Christianity · Religion & Spirituality

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of “Huck” Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer’s sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), his friend Jim, and their journey…
1 Dec 2013 43 episodes English Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg Kids & Family · Arts

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain’s lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can…
24 Oct 2012 17 episodes English Read by John Greenman Arts

The Art of War

“The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The…
9 Apr 2013 13 episodes English Read by Moira Fogarty History · Philosophy

The Awakening

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle. Reisz and the sympathetic Robert Lebrun, both of whom…
12 Sep 2014 8 episodes English Read by Elizabeth Klett Arts
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