LibriVox recording of The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Ellen Marriage.) Read in English by Bruce Pirie. “The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earlier versions in 1831 and.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has f…

LibriVox recording of John McNab by John Buchan. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance are bored of life. After Leithen's doctor recommends a hearty adventure, they set out to Scotland for a season of shooting--.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of The Man Who Knew Too Much (Version 2) by G. K. Chesterton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. A collection of short adventure stories following Horne and his friend. - Summary by Victoria Bell For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Stand By For Mars! by Carey Rockwell. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This is the first book in the “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” series. In the 24th century every teenager from every planet, moon and rock in the solar system has a common dream: to become an officer in.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This i…

LibriVox recording of Wholesome Cooking by Ethel Longley Harris. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Wholesome Cooking, A Practical Book for a Practical Cook, Two Hundred Well-Tested Recipes selected by Ethel Harris.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTor…

LibriVox recording of Nicholas Nickelby Band 3 by Charles Dickens. (Translated by H. Roberts; Carl Kolb.) Read in German by josvanaken. Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefährlichen Welt zurechtfinden, di.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This…

LibriVox recording of Gallipoli by John Masefield. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termination of the doomed Gallipoli campaign of World War I, he wrote this descri.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Falstaff's Wedding (1760 Version) by William Kenrick. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Falstaff's Wedding (1760 and 1766) is a play by William Kenrick. It is a sequel to Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following…

LibriVox recording of The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Read in English by Jim Locke. A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive…

LibriVox recording of Daily Guide for the Sanctified by Jerry Miles Humphrey. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Jerry Miles Humphrey was a Free Methodist preacher and evangelist in the Holiness Tradition during the first part of the twentieth century.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 12…

LibriVox recording of La bolsa de huesos by Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg. Read in Spanish by Victor Villarraza. La bolsa de huesos es una novela policíaca del escritor argentino Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (Buenos Aires, 27 de junio de 1852 – ibídem, 4 de noviembre de 1937) publicada en 1896 y consid.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This i…

LibriVox recording of Sonnenuntergang – eine Dichtung by Hans Bethge. Read in German by LibriVox Volunteers. Hans Bethge studierte unter anderem auch Philosophie, was ihn wohl mit zu diesem Drama inspirierte.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item T…

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Autumn by William Browne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 29, 2024. William Browne was an English pastoral poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kb…

LibriVox recording of Purcell Ode and Other Poems by Robert Bridges. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Robert Bridges wrote the Ode to Music to mark the bicentenary of the death of Henry Purcell in 1695.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item …

LibriVox recording of The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace. Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan. The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels in that region during the 1850s and .... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Sin In Their Blood by Ed Lacy. Read in English by Ben Tucker. He Never Looked for Trouble - It Came to Him Naturally! MATT ISN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE in spite of his reputation as the toughest private eye in town--feels he's changed since what he's been through-fighting in Korea.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Gertrude Bell by Ronald Bodley; Lorna Hearst. Read in English by Lynette Caulkins. A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu…

LibriVox recording of Verses by Frank H. Craig. Read in English by MaryAnn. Frank H. Craig (1859-1945) was superintendent of Wethersfield (Ill.) schools from 1903 to 1918. He later moved in Vermont and wrote prose and poetry about the rural communities in which he lived.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the follo…

LibriVox recording of A Fourth Form Friendship: A School Story by Angela Brazil. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. When Aldred is sent to Birkwood Grange she meets Mabel Farrington the parlor boarder who up until Aldred came had no best friends.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps …

LibriVox recording of Phineas Redux (Version 2) by Anthony Trollope. Read in English by Deon Gines. Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitT…

LibriVox recording of The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by G. A. Henty. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In this book, Henty explores the wars of the British empire in Africa.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Dj…

LibriVox recording of Fanny's First Play by George Bernard Shaw. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Fanny who is the daughter of a Count has written a play. Having hired professional actors and invited some major critics.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive …

LibriVox recording of The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens. Read in English by Mark Nelson. Detective Lieutenant Stephen Mayhew has been heard to complain that the murder of the Sticklemann woman was the damnedest case that he ever met up with; that it got progressively worse as it dragged along; .... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Thrilling Stories of the Ocean by Marmaduke Park. Read in English by Cathy Howell. Authentic accounts of modern voyagers and travelers; designed for the entertainment and instruction of young people.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTo…

LibriVox recording of The Gospel According to St. Mark, Volume 1 by John Daniel Jones. Read in English by InTheDesert. Bible students and Bible readers have long felt the necessity for some commentary which should aim simply and solely at helping the spiritual life of those who use it.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has fil…

LibriVox recording of Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of the facts and incidents in the lives o.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Centuries Apart by Edward T. Bouvé. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Centuries Apart is about a group of Civil War Union soldiers who, dispatched by President Lincoln, quasi-time travel to a quasi-medieval England in the heart of Antarctica.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the follow…

LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 256 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This is a collection of 37 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during September 2024. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or oth.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. Henty. Read in English by acamerer. PREFACE MY DEAR LADS, Until comparatively lately that portion of the United States in which I have laid this story was wholly unexplored.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Ar…

LibriVox recording of Childe Roland and Other Poems by Robert Browning. Read in English by Alan Mapstone. The title poem was inspired by various images which Browning saw while living in Italy, an old tower in the Carrara Mountains, a painting in Paris and a horse on a tapestry in his home near Flor.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of There is a Tide by John Collis Snaith. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Mame Durrance grew upon a pig farm in Cowbarn, Iowa but she had big dreams to become a journalist. An inheritance fro her aunt allowed her to travel to pursue her dream, but after a brief and unsucce.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Stand by the Engines by Henry Lawson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 15, 2024. Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTo…

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Knowledge by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2024. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laug.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This…

LibriVox recording of The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov. (Translated by Alfred Edward Chamot.) Read in English by Bryn Roberts. "The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman named Olga, who is found dead in a fore.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Fräulein Detektiv by Matthias McDonnell Bodkin. (Translated by Margarete Jacobi.) Read in German by SowasVon. Im ausgehenden viktorianischen Zeitalter löst Dora Myrl als Privatdetektivin (oder "Geheimpolizistin") die unterschiedlichsten Fälle.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following t…

LibriVox recording of Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings by Frank James Adkins. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I for war-.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of The Booklover and His Books by Henry Lyman Koopman. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64…

LibriVox recording of The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In the preliminary statement of the aims and objects of this History, communicated to those who were invited to become contrib.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Hawthorne by Henry James. Read in English by James Hutchisson. A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-century.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archiv…

LibriVox recording of Nicholas Nickelby Band 2 by Charles Dickens. (Translated by H. Roberts and Carl Kolb) Read in German by josvanaken. Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefährlichen Welt zurechtfinden, d.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This…

LibriVox recording of Rose in Bloom, Version 2 by Louisa May Alcott. Read in English by Marina. Rose in Bloom is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published in 1876 and is a sequel to Eight Cousins. It depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society, dealing with.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Napoleon and Marie-Louise: The Fall of the Empire by Walter Geer. Read in English by Celine Major. FOREWORD: In a former volume, the legend of Joséphine was considered, and an attempt was made to substitute for it the truth of History.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 12…

LibriVox recording of Galactic Patrol (version 2) by E. E. Smith. Read in English by Kevin Coffin. Galactic Patrol is the third book in the Lensmen stories, and the first book to feature Kimball Kinnison, the action hero of several books in the series.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps…

LibriVox recording of The Merry Five by Penn Shirley. Read in English by ShrimpPhish. Join the Merry Five, Molly, Kirke and Weezy Rowe, and their twin comrades Paul and Pauline Bradstreet, as they prepare to go to Santa Luzia on vacation.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps M…

LibriVox recording of A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III by Mandell Creighton. Read in English by Pamela Nagami. Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal autonomy.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Gold-Killer by John Farrar; Prosper Buranelli. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The 1920's are off to a R.I.P. Roaring start as a serial strangler dubbed Gold-Killer is squeezing the life out of New York's wealthiest men.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps M…

LibriVox recording of A Friend of Marie-Antoinette (Lady Atkyns) by Frédéric Barbey. (Translated by Unknown.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Charlotte Atkyns (née Walpole) was an English actress.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, D…

LibriVox recording of Old Times in the Colonies by Charles Carleton Coffin. Read in English by Keith Salis. The discovery and establishment of a new continent! Who owns it? What will you do with it? How shall it be ruled? How shall a sovereign gain a benefit from it? These questions and more are det.... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

LibriVox recording of Curiosities of the Hymnal by Carl F. Price. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Carl F. Price, a pioneering hymnologist, historian, and author, says, "Every real hymn has its story, if only we could discover it." From stories behind the hymns, Price now takes us to examine .... This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio. Th…

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #150 – LibriVox and the Pandemic. Hosted by Maria Kasper. Duration: 37:45 With contributions from TriciaG, Mary in Arkansas, Madelyn Pauline (hertzm), schrm, julianpratley, Greg Giordano, Amelia Chesley (plaidsicle), KevinS, and Maria Kasper (commonsparrow3) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 00:00 Introduction 01:38…