LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 2)

This novel was published a full 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, but listeners may be surprised at how many parallels this fictio…

Oedipus Rex (Murray Translation)

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Sophocles

"Oedipus Rex" (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as "Oedipus the King" or "Oedipus t…

The Dead Alive

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Wilkie Collins

Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body…

The Life and Death of King John

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William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)

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Christopher Marlowe

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlow…

Viviane

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Paul Duval

« Comment, Viviane, la fille onduleuse aux crins d'or, courtisane galloise experte en félonie, des douze preux d'Arthur ayant &…

Love and Intrigue

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Friedrich Schiller

Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughte…

The Prussian Officer

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D. H. Lawrence

The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…

Mary Stuart

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Friedrich Schiller

Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her …

The Persians

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Aeschylus

This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court awa…

The Tragic Bride

Read by Roger Melin

Francis Brett Young

The story centers on Gabrielle Hewish, only and lonely child of Sir Jocelyn Hewish, a loveable lush and owner of the peaceful Roscarna estat…

Samson Agonistes

Read by Martin Geeson

John Milton

“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …

Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

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Sophocles

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over thr…

The Petticoat Commando

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

Johanna Brandt

In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

The Changeling

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Thomas Middleton

The Changeling is a sensational 1622 tragicomedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that comprises two intertwining plots. The first inv…

Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

A Dog of Flanders

Read by Roger Melin

Ouida

"Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world." So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become insepar…

The Spanish Tragedy

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Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and inf…

Amy Foster

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Joseph Conrad

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck …

Ivanov

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Anton Chekhov

Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her famil…

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