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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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

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on…
31 Jan 2013 6 episodes English Read by Bob Neufeld Arts

Cymbeline

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The King banishes Posthumus, who goes to Rome, where he falls…
30 Oct 2014 6 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. It was based on a German folktale set in the Dutch culture of Post-Revolutionary…
24 Oct 2012 2 episodes English Read by Bob Neufeld 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

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother dead, disguises herself as a page in order to serve the lovesick Duke Orsino, who has been rejected…
8 Jul 2014 5 episodes English Read by Various Readers Comedy · Arts

When I have fears that I may cease to be

John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London. His father died when he was eight and his mother when he was fourteen; these sad circumstances drew him particularly close to his two brothers, George and…
23 May 2014 1 episodes English Read by Nomenphile 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

Fidele

William Shakespeare is an English poet and playwright considered to be one of the greatest writers in the English language, as well as one of the greatest in Western literature.
30 Oct 2014 1 episodes English Read by Calm Dragon Arts

On his blindness

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