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How to Analyze People on Sight

In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have developed through evolutionary processes, each with its own distinct character traits and corresponding outward appearance. She…

23 Oct 2012 16 episodes English Read by Various Readers Health & Fitness

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane Eyre…

25 Mar 2015 38 episodes English Read by Various Arts · Arts

Janet of the Dunes

Known primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in adult prose as well. Janet of the Dunes is one such departure wherein she masterfully takes us into the lives of the bold men and women who tended those…

25 Mar 2015 14 episodes English Read by Roger Melin Arts · History

King Lear

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion to their professed love of him. His plan misfires when Cordelia, his youngest and…

11 Jul 2014 5 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Leaves of Grass

From one of America's best loved and most important poets comes a masterpiece. Leaves of Grass is considered by many to be the greatest collection of poetry ever produced by an American. And this, the 1855 First Edition Text, is considered the strongest and most important of the many editions…

26 Oct 2012 34 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts

Les Misérables Volume 2 : Cosette

This is volume 2 of 5. – An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray.

13 Dec 2012 76 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Midsummer Night's dream

Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds a dose of amateur theatre for good measure. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

8 Jul 2014 5 episodes English Read by Various Readers Comedy · Arts · Arts

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions,…

16 Jan 2014 44 episodes English Read by Stewart Wills Arts · Sports · Sports

On his blindness

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22 May 2014 1 episodes English Arts

Othello

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago, Othello's jealous ensign, who plots to destroy their union…

22 May 2014 6 episodes English Read by Various Arts · Arts

Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and then straight on till morning. You know the story… and…

27 May 2013 17 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts · Kids & Family

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature – “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Its manuscript…

17 Oct 2012 60 episodes English Read by Karen Savage Arts · Arts

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies. Braving parental opposition, the teenage lovers marry in secret, with…

24 Jan 2014 6 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Selected Short Stories

Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the changing mores of American society. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," wallflower Bernice is taken in hand by her more popular cousin, whose motives are not entirely altruistic…

9 May 2014 10 episodes English Read by Laurie Anne Walden Arts

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility: Victorian-Era Romance and Comedy. Marianne, the second daughter of the very dead Mr. Dashwood, has found love in the dashing Mr. Wiloughby. Elinor, the eldest, cautions Marianne to be more reserved, but the reproach falls on deaf ears. When Wiloughby is called away to London, how will…

30 Oct 2012 49 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts · Arts

Short Poetry Collection

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012.

3 Apr 2014 23 episodes English Read by Various Arts

Short Story Collection Vol. 007

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

31 Jan 2014 20 episodes English Arts

Siddhartha

Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he…

9 Nov 2014 12 episodes English Read by Adrian Praetzellis Arts

Sonnet 30

Shakespeare's Sonnet 30, one of his most famous, is a reflection on sad memories reconciled by the realization of the gift he has in his friend.

4 Jul 2014 1 episodes English Read by Shengzhi Li Arts

Steps to Christ

Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movement, and was one of the principle founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Steps to Christ, first published in 1892, is her most popular book. It…

24 Mar 2015 13 episodes English Read by Donald Hines Christianity · Religion & Spirituality