LibriVox Audio Books
Lives of the Ancient Philosophers
François Fénelon
François Fénelon became a priest in 1675, Archbishop of Paris in 1679, was spiritual advisor to Madame Guyon, and was appointe…
Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
Gilbert Parker
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
Love Affairs of the Courts of Europe
Thornton Hall
The best stories are written by life itself, and that is why Thornton Hall has collected real life love stories in this volume. All the Prin…
English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture
Sir Francis Galton
The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the "pre-eminent"…
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 6)
John Hay and John George Nicolay
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…
Short Poetry Collection 171
Various
This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2017.
Six Women and the Invasion
Marguerite Yerta Méléra and Gabrielle Yerta
A true tale of the wartime resilience of six Frenchwomen whose country town was invaded by the Germans during World War I. - Summary by Jael…
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant
Kant's Prolegomena, although a small book, is indubitably the most important of his writings. It furnishes us with a key to his main work, T…
Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl
Frederick Irving Anderson
Frederick Irving Anderson was a New York newspaperman who had a second career writing mystery stories for the "slick" magazines su…
Mrs. Dymond
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to ca…
American Book of the Dog
Various
Here is a period piece, covering 47 breeds, about the early days of dog breeding, the birth of the American Kennel Club (1884) which firmly …
Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)
Virgil
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…
Companionable Books
Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
When Shadows Die
E.D.E.N. Southworth
A sequel to "Her Mothers Secret" and "Love's Bitterest Cup" (Bridget Gaige)
Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1
Henry Richard Fox Bourne and Thomas Barnes Cochrane
Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He start…
On the Future of our Educational Institutions
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…
Little Minister
J. M. Barrie
Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but r…
Old Old Fairy Tales
Laura Valentine
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may als…
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ida Ashworth Taylor
Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated he…
That Affair at Portstead Manor
Gladys Edson Locke
An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a w…