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Common Sense

Read by Gary Gilberd


Thomas Paine


Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within t…

The Man Whom the Trees Loved

Read by Amy Gramour


Algernon Blackwood


The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour

The Search

Read by LikeManyWaters


Grace Livingston Hill


“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

Read by Gary Gilberd


George Santayana


Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Famous American Statesmen

Read by Barry Eads


Sarah Knowles Bolton


A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andr…

Adam Bede (version 2)

Read by Tom Denholm


George Eliot


George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…

The Pentecost of Calamity

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…

Bill Nye's Cordwood

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Bill Nye


From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects

Read by InTheDesert


John Newton


Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

Read by Gary Olman


T. D. Bonner


Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Read by Phil Chenevert


Mark Twain


Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. T…

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Roche…

Read by InTheDesert


Gilbert Burnet


I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…

The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from poli…

White April

Read by Laurie Banza


Harold Vinal


In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…

Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories

Read by James K. White


Guy de Maupassant


This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.

In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant

Read by Scarlett Martin


Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams


The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, "in school and out." We are sorry to say that…

The Great Impersonation

Read by Tom Weiss


E. Phillips Oppenheim


E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales …

Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

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