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Doctor Ox's Experiment

by Jules Verne Read by Alan Winterrowd 4
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves a…

The Cruise of the Esmeralda

by Harry Collingwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is…

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells Read by Cate Barratt 4.6
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells explores the dark side of scientific ambition through the story of a brilliant but troubled scientist who d…

The Talisman

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Lizzie Driver 4.3
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …

The Blonde Lady

by Maurice Leblanc Read by Leni 4.5
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title &q…

The Enchanted Island of Yew

by L. Frank Baum Read by Ted Delorme 4.6
A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures. The ad…

Stories of Ships and the Sea

by Jack London Read by William Tomcho 4.3
Stories of Ships and the Sea brings together five captivating short stories by renowned author Jack London, celebrated for his vivid storyte…

The Flying Inn

by G. K. Chesterton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

by Beatrix Potter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

Red Shadows

by Robert E. Howard Read by Paul Siegel 4.4
Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard's puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, en…

Into the Woods

by David Wood Read by David Wood 4.4
Set against the backdrop of colonial America, Into the Woods is the story of pioneer and patriot Jonathan Wood. Straining against the bonds …

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age …

Under the Andes

by Rex Stout Read by Roger Melin 4
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…

Murder Madness

by Murray Leinster Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers wri…

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Judy Bieber 4.3
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz was the fourth of 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). Published in 1908, while Baum was resident …

The Coming Race

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Read by Maire Rhode 4.4
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Growing up on the banks of the Mississippi river, a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer spends his days getting into one scrape after another. …

Sky Island

by L. Frank Baum Read by Judy Bieber 4.6
Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old s…

The Lost Princess of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard…

The Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…

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