LibriVox Audio Books
The Symposium
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…
Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor
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P. G. Wodehouse
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis f…
Sidelights on Relativity
Read by Paul Adams
Albert Einstein
Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Read by Karen Savage
E. Nesbit
This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savag…
Bleak House (version 3)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disput…
Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete
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World English Bible
The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)
Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her mea…
The Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…
Kim
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Rudyard Kipling
Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling…
Ivanhoe
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Sir Walter Scott
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 1
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Flavius Josephus
Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. It is a history of …
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Read by Scott Merrill
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this novel the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium, protagonists of the first three books in the s…
Mary Queen of Scots
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Jacob Abbott
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels…
Where Evil Grows
Read by S. Lawrence Parrish
S. Lawrence Parrish
Where Evil Grows: Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... from Hell.
It's 1976. The rock group KISS is cool. Every teenager alive wishes they could…
The Lost World (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not …
Tales from Shakespeare
Read by Karen Savage
Charles Lamb
The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his word…
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
The Nicomachean Ethics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyce…
A Room with a View (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
E. M. Forster
The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While stayi…
Ulysses
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James Joyce
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as…