LibriVox recording of Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling. Read by Mark F. Smith. Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers...
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LibriVox recording of Keep Going by Edgar A. Guest. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Keep Going, by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 24, 2022. ----- This poem is often wrongly attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier, but the source we're using is a scan of a 1921 newspaper with Guest attributed as the author. The line, "Success is failure turned inside out," is taken from this poem. - Summary by TriciaG...
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LibriVox recording of Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. Read in English by Lee Smalley This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several intervening ventures, becomes a medical researcher in New York. A widespread killer plague takes him to a Caribbean island to produce and inject sera and do research. Fascinating characters, some professional, others romantic, impact his life. Striking similarities of the...
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LibriVox recording of The Adventure of the Broad Arrow - An Australian Romance by Morley Roberts. Read in English by Laurie Banza When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make them turn back and give up the trip; all but two of them that is, Smith and Mandeville, aka the "Baker. Smith and Baker decide to tough it out and go after their dreams, chancing their lives to find "their luck"....
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LibriVox recording of Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life by Henry Inman. Read in English by David Wales This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the personal observation of the author… and will form another interesting series of stories of that era of great adventures,...
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LibriVox recording of The King of the Golden City by Mother Mary Loyola. Read in English by Maria Therese This charming allegory will bring to the heart of the child a deep love for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and an understanding of the graces received in Holy Communion. We follow with delight the little Dilecta in her meetings with The King; her struggles against the evil influence of Malignus, in which she is so ably helped by the Prince Guardian; from the hut in which she lived and...
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LibriVox recording of The Mormon Battalion, Its History and Achievements by B. H. Roberts. Read in English by Wayne Cooke. A history of the Longest March of Military in History. The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service, recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. In 1847, as the Mormons were in Iowa heading West, after being driven out of their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, the U.S. Army...
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LibriVox recording of I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Read in English by James R. Hedrick Here is a novel whose pregnant caption suits these parlous times. . . . It's all about a German spy plot to steal two American inventions deemed of inestimable value for war use. One is a camera for taking a map of the country from an airship. The other is a process for making glass armor—coats of mail of interwoven mica and glass that Mauser bullets cannot penetrate. Washington, D. C., is the locale. ....
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LibriVox recording of The Holy Koran by Koran. (Translated by Muhammad Habib Shakir.) Read in English by SaraHale; Mona Jaheen The Koran is divided into 114 Surahs. It re-tells the stories of most of the previous prophets. It also covers Marriages, Inheritance, Banning, Pilgrimage, etc. Special thanks to catharmaiden (Sandra Schmit) for Proof-Listening some of the Surahs. And thanks to Kitty (Sonia) for being the MC and DPL. We're grateful for your help and support. - Summary by SaraHale For...
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LibriVox recording of The Red One by Jack London. Read in English by Ben Tucker. Famous American author Jack London brings us four more tales of adventure. "The Red One" is the story of an explorer who tangles with cannibals to discover a mysterious artifact of possible otherworldly origins, "The Hussy" and "Like Argus of Ancient Times" are both adventurous stories of quests for gold, and "The Princess" is a rousing tale of adventure on the high seas....
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Lewis Carroll’s curiouser and curiouser tale of a girl discovering a strange new world. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson. BBC Sounds, November 2019
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LibriVox recording of The Clevedon Case by Nancy Oakley; John Oakley. Read in English by Steven Seitel Quoting from a "teaser" on the flyleaf: The well-known authority on criminology, Dennis Holt, inherited a house in a remote village, the sort of place in which, to quote himself, “nothing ever happens.” One night at fifty-three minutes past eleven (he was always meticulously accurate about time), his attention was attracted by a peremptory tapping on the window pane. A moment...
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LibriVox recording of Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus is is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. (from Wikipedia) Some calculus-tricks...
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LibriVox recording of Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve. Read in English by Howard Skyman Private detective Guy Garrick is at the dawning age of modern criminal forensics in the early twentieth century. He and his friend and assistant, Tom Marshall, come to the assistance of both a police commissioner and an insurance investigator trying to solve a murder mystery tied to gambling and corruption in New York. Insightful and innovative thinking will of course rule! - Summary by Howard Skyman For...
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LibriVox recording of No. 17 (Number 17) by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon. Read in English by czandra A thriller about a down-and-out sailor finding his way in London. The book followed a successful play that was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, and even made into a silent film. Its humour is irresistible. - Summary by Czandra For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
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LibriVox recording of What They Couldn't: A Home Story by Pansy. Read in English by TriciaG The Cameron family tries to keep up in society despite their more limited finances, by "making a dollar look to [their] friends as though it was ten dollars," much to the harried father's embarrassment and potential ruin. In addition to the financial stress, the youngest daughter has been "bringing up herself," such that she's on the road to moral peril. This story follows the life of...
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LibriVox recording of Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 3) by A. A. Milne. Read in English by John and Katie Greenman. Winnie-the-Pooh is a children’s book by English author A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Published in 1926, it is a collection of short stories about an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. It is the first of two story collections by Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the second being The House...
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LibriVox recording of Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer. Read in English by Edmund Bloxam A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with a mysterious past and a whole lot of Charlotte Russes and bear grease, and you have a most romantic of comedies. - Summary by The Reader For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood. Read in English by Ben Tucker. Algernon Blackwood, noted maestro of weird fiction, in his second collection of stories gives us some of his best and most well-known tales of the strange and macabre. From the unsettling haunted house story "The Listener" to the chilling true crime story "Max Hensig: Bacteriologist and Murderer", from the otherworldly tale of reincarnation "The Insanity of...
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LibriVox recording of The Maroon by Thomas Mayne Reid. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers Herbert Vaughan arrives at Mount Welcome, a sugar plantation on the island of Jamaica, after his father had passed away. His arrival is not exactly welcomed, and it sets off a chain of events involving intrigue, romance, jealousy and, of course, voodoo. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the...
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LibriVox recording of The Path to Prosperity by James Allen. Read in English by Sonnie Abdalla ‘The Path to Prosperity’ (sometimes rendered as The Path of Prosperity) is part one of James Allen’s first published work titled ‘From Poverty to Power’ alternatively titled ‘The Realization of Prosperity and Peace’ (1901). Part one is an empowering volume which is likely to enlighten the reader as to how much power they have over outward circumstances by virtue of their own thoughts....
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Librivox recording of The Dead by James Joyce. Read by iremonger. A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce's transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. "The Dead" is from Joyce's collection of short stories entitled Dubliners . (summary by iremonger) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (41MB)
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LibriVox recording of Rural Rides by William Cobbett. Read in English by Nicole Lee William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his Political Register between 1822 and 1826, reflecting conditions of farmers and labourers in the English countryside, together with his views on the necessary actions for remedy and the shortcomings of government in this regard. Although this sounds amazingly dry, his...
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LibriVox recording of Youth, version 2 by Joseph Conrad. Read in English by Peter Dann This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing youth, middle age and old age, respectively. One of Conrad's 'Marlow yarns', the story is based on the trouble-plagued, much-delayed and ultimately ill-fated voyage of the cargo vessel 'Palestine' (here, 'Judea') carrying coal from England to Bangkok in 1882-1883, on which...
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LibriVox recording of The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease. Read in English by Robert Morel "The History of the Fabian Society" describes the growth of Socialist theory in England, and the influence of Socialism on the political thought of the last thirty years (between 1886 and 1916) - Summary by Robert Morel For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox...
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LibriVox recording of The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. Read in English by Deon Gines The Pirate is set in the island of Shetland in the late 1600s, and is a historical novel based on the life of John Gow, Captain Cleveland in the novel. - Summary by Deon Gines For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer...
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LibriVox recording of Your Pay Envelope by John Richard Meader. Read in English by volunteer readers. A Critique of Classical Socialism presented in a series of letters to a Mr. Smith. The author was the editor of the New York-based "Common Cause" magazine - Summary by KevinS For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio...
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LibriVox recording of Arizona Argonauts by H. Bedford-Jones. Read in English by John; Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the arrival of the daily stage coach. Gold mining is an avocation. There is desert everywhere, deadly rattlers, no paved roads, some people travel in model T's which they call flivvers. They must carry their own water, gasoline and tire patch kits for the many blowouts they...
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LibriVox recording of Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament by M. R. James. Read in English by David Wales M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not included in the Bible. (Some books regarded as apocryphal by Protestant tradition are included in Catholic,...
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LibriVox recording of Wet Magic by E. Nesbit. Read in English by Phil Chenevert A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these delightful children from their earlier adventures with magic, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis. Just normal children who believe in the fun of imagining and of magic. In this story Francis, who...
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LibriVox recording of The Metal Giants by Edmond Hamilton. Read in English by Ben Tucker Huge metal monsters spread terror throughout the land... the tale of a Frankenstein that turned on its creator! - Summary by Weird Tales Magazine, December 1926 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader,...
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LibriVox recording of A Network of Crime by Nicholas Carter. Read in English by Mark Nelson Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". Nick gets called to investigate a bloody double murder - one man stabbed, another shot. But was the perpetrator the criminal, or the target of the crime? - Summary by...
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LibriVox recording of Napoleon and Josephine 'The Rise of the Empire' by Walter Geer. Read in English by Celine Major FOREWORD: "In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer one of peculiar difficulty. The aversion which many feel towards Napoleon is not a little due to what they conceive to be the cruelty with which he treated the woman who for fourteen years was the companion of his glory. The writer of this...
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LibriVox recording of Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist by George Munro. Read in English by Librivox volunteers At a time when the detective story was gaining in popularity, the hero was almost always male. In this story, Dudie Dunne is assisted by his Italian friend, Cad Metti. Dressed as a boy, she slips by unnoticed. A natural, she can pass in high society or the, New York slums. She is perfect for the job of tracking down a gang of Italian-Americans. The Old Sleuth was a quarterly...
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Librivox recording of Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume I by Charles Mackay. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew...
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LibriVox recording of La Barraca by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Read in Spanish by Mongope. La barraca nos cuenta la historia de Batiste y su familia que llegan a la huerta valenciana a trabajar cultivando unas tierras abandonadas. Eran las tierras del tío Barret, caído en desgracia al no poder pagar el arrendamiento a Don Salvador, dueño de ellas. Toda la huerta se une para que nadie vuelva a ocupar esa parcela. Batiste será odiado por todos sus vecinos. Le harán de tal modo la vida...
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LibriVox recording of The Splendid Outcast by George Gibbs. Read in English by Tony Oliva _What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that only their own mother had been able to tell them apart. Memory came to him with a rush. He remembered now what had happened in the darkness, what he had done. Taken Harry’s lieutenant’s uniform, giving the coward his own corporal’s outfit. Then he, Jim Horton,...
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LibriVox recording of Песнь о Гайавате (The Song of Hiawatha) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Translated by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin.) Read in Russian by Mark Chulsky. Иван Бунин опубликовал перевод «Песни о Гайавате» (The Song of Hiawatha) в 1896 г. Его перевод до сих пор считается непревзойдённым. - Summary by Mark Chulsky For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard. Read by laineyben Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall. (Introduction by laineyben) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B Part 1 (165MB) Download M4B Part 2 (133MB)
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LibriVox recording of Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood. Read in English by Marcelle D Ward; Sylviamb; ToddHW The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity of both two- and four legged neighbours. What to do? Luckily, an old manuscript of the learned Spaniard, Don Constantino Bartolomeo...
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Librivox public domain recording of Crime and Punishment , by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (transl. Constance Garnett). Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. Crime and Punishment is considered by many as the first...
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LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by David Clarke The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first set of short stories that were published and followed the publishing of his first 2 novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. - Summary by David Clarke For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of Brewster's Millions by Winchell Smith; Byron Ongley. Monty Brewster has just inherited a million dollars from the grandfather he has never met. The newly acquired wealth staggers young Monty Brewster, and he is about to launch into his new life when an attorney in the west advises him that his uncle, George Brewster, has left him seven million dollars, contingent upon his getting rid of the million dollars left him by his grandfather. "He mistreated your mother and...
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LibriVox recording of Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. Wirt-Benson. Read in English by Cheryl Adam Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant...
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LibriVox recording of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3 by Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by John McFarland Kennedy.) Read in English by Jim Locke Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of our Educational Institutions," and finally an essay by the author entitled "Homer and Classical Philology." As always, Nietzsche believes in the importance of classical thought....
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LibriVox recording of The People of the Black Circle, by Robert E. Howard. Read by Mark Nelson. "The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping a regal princess of Vendhya (pre-historical India) and foiling a...
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Wendy's Kids Meal Audiobooks - Ghost Town at Sundown An audiobook that was circulated in Wendy's kids meals back in 2007.
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LibriVox recording of Sevastopol by Leo Tolstoy. (Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.) Read in English by David Wales Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The name originates from Sevastopol, a city in Crimea. The book has also been released under the...
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