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Sign of Life

In Short Science Fiction Collection 097

Read by Jon Riley


Dave Dryfoos


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Valley of Fear

Read by Katie Riley


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are pre…

Essays on Political Economy

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Sophisms of the Protectionists

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

Read by Katie Riley


Francis Key Howard


Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

The Communist Manifesto

Read by Jon Ingram


Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists.…

The Eagle's Shadow

Read by Jon M.Wilson


James Branch Cabell


A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

A Shropshire Lad (version 2)

Read by Jon Sindell


A. E. Housman


This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …

Mighty Roman Shorts

Read by Jon Sindell


Jon Sindell


The Mighty Roman is a baseball book for today, a funny, freewheeling novel about modern American manhood. It’s a modern Mutiny On The Bounty…

'Ambassador of Good Will': Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Caroline Riley


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Fall of Hyperion

In Long Poems Collection 007

Read by Katie Riley


John Keats


LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 007: a collection of 15 public domain poems greater than 10 minutes in length.Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: …

The Automaton Ear

In Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Read by Riley McGuire


Florence McLandburgh


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Version 6

In The Consolation

Read by Katie Riley


Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010.

17 - Chapter 13 part 1

In The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

Read by Katie Riley


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…

The Babe in the Bulrushes

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 016

Read by Adam Riley


Amy Steedman


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Part 1: VII. Reading and Writing

In Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Read by Connor Riley


Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. Thomas Common and Friedrich Nietzsche


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contempo…