LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 4)

Altamirano nos da a creer que este cuento es una historia verídica, que le fue contada por el narrador. Es, simplemente, la historia …

The Seven Poor Travellers

Read by Ruth Golding

Charles Dickens

One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…

Passing

Read by Elizabeth Klett

Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her…

Poor Richard's Almanack

Read by Michele Fry

Benjamin Franklin

A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

The Custom of the Country (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

Quicksand

Read by Elizabeth Klett

Nella Larsen

Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a school…

L'Art de Lire

Read by Christiane Jehanne

Emile Faguet

Un ouvrage passionnant sur la Littérature, comment lire et aborder différents textes, romans, philosophiques, poétiques…

The Mark of Zorro

Read by Mark F. Smith

Johnston Mcculley

In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to the…

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Read by Tadhg

Robert Tressell

Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, ex…

Round the Sofa

Read by NoelBadrian

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…

The Golden Calf

Read by Tara Dow

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy …

Traité de la vie élégante suivi de la Théorie de la démarche

Read by Christiane Jehanne

Honoré de Balzac

L’homme intérieur, principe du pouvoir et de la longévité, et l’homme extérieur arpentant, avec la même &e…

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Read by TriciaG

Herman Melville

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leavi…

Elizabeth and her German Garden

Read by ashleighjane

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted dur…

The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1

Read by Kevin Green

Camden Pelham

This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner…

Ann Veronica

Read by Joy Chan

H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Read by Edmund Bloxam

Daniel Defoe

The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Bele…

Home Life in Colonial Days

Read by Susan Morin

Alice Morse Earle

CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…

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