*Non-fiction
Six Years in the Prisons of England
Read by Elaine Webb
Frank Henderson
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fello…
Shakespeare and Music
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Christopher Wilson
Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries mus…
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
Read by Clive Catterall
E. W. Hornung
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was onl…
Our Cats and All About Them
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Harrison Weir
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…
Just Me
Read by Pamela Krantz
Pearl White
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…
Have We Been Played? The Hidden Game Revealed
Read by John Berling Hardy
John Berling Hardy
THIS BOOK IS MOST LIKELY NOT FOR YOU!
It will NOT guarantee success – Life holds no promises! It will NOT guarantee happiness – I…
From The Temple
Read by Kirsten Ferreri
George Herbert
George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…
Strange Pages from Family Papers
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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…
The Great Taxicab Robbery
Read by Roger Melin
James H. Collins
In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the …
The Bird Study Book
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Thomas Gilbert Pearson
Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…
The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the …
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Cotton Mather
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of t…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
Read by Expatriate
Louise Mack
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction
Read by David Wales
Alexander Von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Historical Tales, Vol IV: English
Read by Kalynda
Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …
The Vagabond
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Robert Louis Stevenson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 20…
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. V. Lucas
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
To Autumn
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Keats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of To Autumn by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010.To Au…
Angel Food Time: Little Talks to Little Folks
Read by Maria Therese
Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
This is the sixth and final volume of the "Angel Food" Series by Father Brennan. This volume consists of 28 charming selections wi…
Bacon
Read by Bill Boerst
Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…