LibriVox Audio Books
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Read by Bob Neufeld
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…
The Art of Controversy
Read by Carl Manchester
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…
A Peep Behind the Scenes
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…
Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation
Read by James K. White
Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…
Common Sense
Read by Bob Neufeld
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…
The Adventures of Bobby Coon
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
"In this engaging story, Bobby Raccoon suffers a series of mishaps. Following a bad dream, he bites his own tail, is given a dreadful f…
Oblomov
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…
Henry Ford's Own Story
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the &q…
Charles Dickens Dombey and Son
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfal…
Of Mice And Men
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is a dramatization of John Steinbeck's seminal 1937 novel about migrant workers in 1930s California whose dream of one day o…
The Mastery of Destiny
Read by Audio Andrea
James Allen
James Allen's inspirational and thought-provoking books have inspired millions. In The Mastery of Destiny, he instructs readers on developin…
Sally on the Rocks
Read by Anne Fletcher
Winifred Boggs
Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hope…
Pragmatism
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
William James
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view …
On the Irrawaddy
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the num…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of …
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
The brave warrior, Beowulf, comes to the aid of King Hrothgar when he hears that Grendel, a horrible monster, is terrorizing the inhabitants…
Sir Francis Drake
Read by Pamela Nagami
Julian Corbett
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…
The Shore Road Mystery
Read by Anthony St. Pierre
Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy Boys track down a ring of car thieves - summary by Anthony St. Pierre
Overruled
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Sequel to "Making Fate". We continue the story of Marjorie Edmonds and those who surround her: Mr. Maxwell, her mother's boarder; …
Notes on Nursing
Read by Cori Samuel
Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …