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A Parting Guest - Read by JOP

In A Parting Guest

Read by JohnnyOak


James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.…

The Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at St. Louis, June…

In The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, September 1909

Read by johnbilkey


Various


"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geogr…

The Great Migration to America/The Agencies of American Colonization

In History of the United States, Vol. I

Read by JohnL


Charles and Mary Beard and Charles Austin Beard


Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks a…

False Pretenses - William Chillingworth

In The World's Best Orations, Volume 3

Read by JohnnyMack


Various


Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…

Before Storm

In The Watchman and Other Poems

Read by JohnWynter


Lucy Maud Montgomery


While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems.…

Knitters In The Sun

In The Intoxicated Ghost And Other Stories

Read by johnharnish


Arlo Bates


A charming collection of short stories, dealing with ghosts, magic, and other-worldly events that even the faint of heart will enjoy.1. The …

Chapter 03

In War and Peace, Book 11: 1812

Read by JohnWKEllis


Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, firs…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Doctor Jack's Soapbox Seminars

Read by John C. Adler, Ph.D.


John C. Adler, Ph.D.


What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? ... Well, like a…

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Gerald Bullett


Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Read by A. Bryan Johnson


Alexander Dunlop Lindsay


Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

My Brother's Story

Read by Allen Johnson Jr.


Allen Johnson Jr.


The Blackwater Novels are set in the 1930s along the Blackwater Swamp, near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia. Get in trouble with t…

29 - The Blue Belt

In Popular Tales from the Norse

Read by JohnNewman


George Dasent and Sir George Webbe Dasent


The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has be…

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


University of Oxford Podcasts

Closing Rhymes

In Short Poetry Collection 118

Read by Johnbooth


William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) and William Butler Yeats


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013.

The Star - Read by JB

In The Star

Read by Johnbooth


Jane Taylor


To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry proje…

17 - Cotton

In The Story Book of Science

Read by johnh1803


Jean-Henri Fabre


The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nat…

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