LibriVox Audio Books
Nine Unlikely Tales
Read by Cori Samuel
E. Nesbit
Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence …
The Age of Innocence
Read by Brenda Dayne
Edith Wharton
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolut…
Doctor Thorne
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Depiction of a dystopian society in the future in which manipulative social control is exercised on a gullible population… (summary by Peter…
Our Island Story
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles…
The Amazing Interlude
Read by MaryAnn
Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby a…
Anna Karenina
Read by MaryAnn
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vr…
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Read by Jesse Zuba
Frederick Douglass
Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who…
Bear Creek Collection
Read by R. K. Wilcox
Robert E. Howard
Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the e…
The River War
Read by Mark F. Smith
Winston S. Churchill
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backla…
North and South
Read by MaryAnn
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…
The Spiritual Life
Read by Christopher Smith
Andrew Murray
In this book, Andrew Murray explores the dynamics of the Christian life as Jesus means it to be lived. He explains how the Holy Spirit is es…
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Read by H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Rumours abound of sinister goings-on in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The once prosperous town, which has fallen into a st…
David Copperfield
Read by Tadhg Hynes
Charles Dickens
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens …
A Diary from Dixie
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Mary Chesnut
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…
The Young Railroaders
Read by Mark F. Smith
Francis Lovell Coombs
While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, tra…
Stepping Heavenward
Read by Theresa L. Downey
Elizabeth Prentiss
How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and sp…
John Thorndyke's Cases
Read by Sandra Cullum
R. Austin Freeman
Detective John Thorndyke never disappoints when solving crime in this collection of Freeman's works. - Summary by A. K. Morton
The Pursuit of God
Read by David Leeson
Aiden Wilson Tozer
"As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." This thirst for an intimate relationship with…
The Stainless Steel Rat
Read by Mark Nelson
Harry Harrison
James Bolivar diGriz alias Slippery Jim alias The Stainless Steel Rat. Interstellar con man, crook and thief. Bane of the elite law enforcem…