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The Story of Mankind

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Hendrik Van Loon


Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the p…

Henry V

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William Shakespeare


After the turmoil and uncertainty of Henry IV a new era appears to dawn for England with the accession of the eponymous Henry V. In this sun…

A Girl of the Limberlost

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Gene Stratton-Porter


A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…

The Story Book of Science

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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…

Theory of Colours

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and …

Peter Pan (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

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J. M. Barrie


"All children, except one, grow up,” begins J. M. Barrie's most famous novel. Barrie then proceeds to tell the story of that one extrao…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

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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 …

The Green Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

Against Heresies

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Irenaeus


St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, describes several schools of Gnosticism which were prevalent among pre-Nicene Christianity. He then refutes t…

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano


The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time sp…

Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading)

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L. Frank Baum


Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy cou…

The Yellow Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Althou…

Famous Men of Rome

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John Henry Haaren


Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)

The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

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Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall


The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (…

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with M…

Short Mystery Story Collection 003

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Various


Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

Short Mystery Story Collection 005

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Various


LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

The Alaskan

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James Oliver Curwood


A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015

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Various


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Golden Road

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


In the sequel to The Story Girl, Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town…

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