Search Results

Woodland Thoughts

In Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 1

Read by David Barnes


John Clare


John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature po…

Chapter 11

In Dot and the Kangaroo

Read by David Barnes


Ethel C. Pedley


Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian…

Chapter 07

In Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1

Read by David Barnes


Lew Wallace


Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ "Book 1" gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1…

Chapter 25

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by David Barnes


Written by David Barnes, recorded by David Barnes and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Adzanumee and her Mother

In West African Folk Tales

Read by David Barnes


William H. Barker


A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …

The Pardoner's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by David Barnes


Geoffrey Chaucer


The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

English - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Volume 01

Read by David Barnes


United Nations General Assembly and United Nations


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of …

1-03 Part First - Chapter 3

In Jude the Obscure

Read by David Barnes


Thomas Hardy


Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

Brook and Waterfall

In Byways Around San Francisco Bay

Read by David Barnes


W.E. Hutchinson and W. E. Hutchinson


California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…

Romeo and Juliet [Essay]

In Short Story Collection Vol. 007

Read by David Barnes


William Hazlitt


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Butcher and His Customers

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275)

Read by David Barnes


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

< 1 2 3 4 5