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The Green Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

Germania

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, literally The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus a…

On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill


Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…

Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

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Herodotus


The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Anarchism and Other Essays

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Emma Goldman


Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…

On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)

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Titus Lucretius Carus


Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

A Girl of the Limberlost

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Gene Stratton-Porter


A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…

The Story of Mankind

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Hendrik Van Loon


Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the p…

The Alaskan

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James Oliver Curwood


A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode.

Against Heresies

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Irenaeus


St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, describes several schools of Gnosticism which were prevalent among pre-Nicene Christianity. He then refutes t…

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

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Charles Dickens


The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015

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Various


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Les Contes de la bécasse

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Guy de Maupassant


Dans les dix-sept nouvelles composant « Les contes de la bécasse », Guy de Maupassant dépeint en quelques traits d…

Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…

The Pirates of Penzance

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W. S. Gilbert


The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Th…

Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)

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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…

A Doll's House

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Henrik Ibsen


A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his …

Short Mystery Story Collection 003

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Various


Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

Short Mystery Story Collection 005

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Various


LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

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