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Read by John R. Swift


John R. Swift


A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real sca…

Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Friedrich Nietzsche


These are lectures on the education system of Nietzsche's day. He states that "This book is intended for calm readers, for those who ha…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…

A Christmas Carol (Version 14)

Read by Peter John Keeble


Charles Dickens


A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob …

The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story

Read by John R Moore


H. Rider Haggard


Haggard's interest in spiritualism and reincarnation underlie this tale of life, death, and "working out [one's] destiny." - Summa…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

Fat Vampire

Read by Johnny B. Truant


Johnny B. Truant


When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's just his own bad luck that te…

Unicorn Western

Read by Johnny B. Truant


Johnny B. Truant


Cast out from the magical kingdom of The Realm and into the dying desert of the Sands beyond, Marshal Clint Gulliver and his unicorn Edward …

The Bialy Pimps

Read by Johnny B. Truant


Johnny B. Truant


Life is good at Bingham's Bagel Deli. The loathed customers are dealt the poor treatment they seem to deserve, bad rap music is played loudl…

A Parting Guest - Read by JOP

In A Parting Guest

Read by JohnnyOak


James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.…

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