LibriVox Audio Books
Of the Shortness of Life
Read by Jonathan Hockey
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…
The People of the Abyss
Read by Peter Yearsley
Jack London
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …
Eve’s Diary
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Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world arou…
The Mad King
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Shades of The Prisoner of Zenda! All our old friends are here—the young king, the usurping uncle and his evil henchman, the beautiful prince…
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secr…
Tarzan the Terrible
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German tro…
Kitab Adab al-Dunya w'al-Din (The Ethics of Religion and of this World)
Read by Youssef Safiljil (Dr. Fighter)
Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi (Alboacen) was one of the famous Islamic authors and jurists. He was a well-known man in the “Abbassid” empire—a mature thinker w…
The Lost Princess of Oz
Read by Mark F. Smith
L. Frank Baum
Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard…
That Affair Next Door
Read by Dawn Larsen
Anna Katharine Green
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of t…
The Crypt Book 01: The Crew
Read by Scott Sigler
Scott Sigler
A far-future military/scifi endeavor from New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler. It is the best-kept and worst-kept secret in th…
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts
Read by Phil Chenevert
Bill Nye
Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willi…
Treasure Island (Version 4)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Read by Bob Neufeld
Friedrich Engels
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)
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Jules Verne
Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adve…
My First Summer in the Sierra
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
John Muir
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…
Summa Theologica - 01 Pars Prima, Initial Questions
Read by Jim Ruddy
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it …
A Man of Means
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
P. G. Wodehouse
A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Rolan…
Heidi, une histoire pour les enfants et pour ceux qui les aiment
Read by Caroline Sophie
Johanna Spyri
Une petite fille orpheline, Heidi, est amenée par sa tante chez son grand-père qui habite isolé sur l’Alpe, loin des ho…
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…