The Wealth of Nations, Book 1. Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and is widely ...Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the Crusades, it's another ripping historical yarn by Scott. (summary by annise)LibriVox by LibriVox LLC. 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 customer rating. Guidance Suggested. Price: $2.99 Save up to 10% on this app and its in-app items when you purchase Amazon Coins. Learn More. Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC. Languages Supported: Arabic, Chinese, Cornish ...16 thg 1, 2019 ... Celebrating New Public Domain Works: Audiobooks on Librivox · Tarzan and the Golden Lion, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (in progress) · A Lost Lady by ...Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) Sherry reads Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands her friends and family until she finally learns her lesson! (Summary by Kara)H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire life of one Harry Mortimer Smith, an Englishman from times past, in his dream. - Summary by Sonia. Genre (s): Historical Fiction, Science Fiction. Language: English. Section. Chapter.LibriVox recording of The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Read by David Clarke. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844.F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love. - Summary by Kara. Genre (s): Literary Fiction, Romance. The Souls of Black Folk. 4.2 star. Free. On the Origin of Species. 4.5 star. Free. A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public. 4.3 star. Free.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and ...Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: "The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide.Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) Translated by Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895), Edward Aveling (1849 - 1898) et al. Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx's monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867. Marx's aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and explain the laws specific ...Ernest Bramah created the world’s first blind detective, who nevertheless blows the criminals – and the competition – out of the water. Read 4 Max Carrados Detective Stories and judge for yourself. Judgement was swift in the case of Dick Brewster, who is accused of murder.Popular audio formats like mp3 files play on the majority of digital devices. Platforms such as Google Books and Amazon, provide access to huge libraries of books, while smaller non-profit organizations, such as Librivox, allow public domain access to free audiobooks read by volunteers. eBooksThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 2) L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction "It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out."LibriVox. LibriVox is a non-profit website that hosts many public domain audiobooks. As volunteers provide the audio recordings, they may offer a different quality than a service like Audible. Still, LibriVox audiobooks are a great way to access timeless classics and many old children's books.A state-of-the-art reading experience. Libby’s ebook reader makes it easy to customize how you read. You can adjust an ebook's font size, book layout, and lighting. As you read, you can also add bookmarks, create notes and highlights, and define words. "Libby is one of the best resources out there in the e-reader world." The Best American Humorous Short Stories. Various and Alexander Jessup (1871 - ) Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omitted from this LibriVox audio book. (Summary by David Wales)Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain. Skip to content. About; Contact; Forum; Help; Twitter; rssGreat Expectations. This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his ...The Echo of Old Books: A Novel. by Barbara Davis. 29,623. Kindle Edition. $000. Free with Kindle Unlimited membership Join Now. Available instantly. Or $2.49 to buy. Editors' pick. The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to Plato in the Academy), and the second between 335 to 322 BCE (when he was running his own school, the Lyceum). The Rhetoric consists of three books. Book I offers a general overview, presenting the purposes ...The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem. Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (setting ...Popular audio formats like mp3 files play on the majority of digital devices. Platforms such as Google Books and Amazon, provide access to huge libraries of books, while smaller non-profit organizations, such as Librivox, allow public domain access to free audiobooks read by volunteers. eBooksA Study in Scarlet. A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book, Dr. Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with them to the scene of a murder. The crime baffles the Scotland Yard detectives, but of course Holmes solves it ...Tough Love. These free full-length audiobooks are just that, free. All you need to do is create a free account, no strings attached. Choose a free audio book or choose 10, it's up to you. Enjoy listening to these free online audiobooks for adults and kids on our website or free apps for Apple and Android devices.LibriVox Audio Books offers unlimited access to 40,000 free audio books. Each book can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use without any charge. The LibriVox Audio Books app...English Audio Books - Librivox ... This digital download is only available for Android devices. Free Books for Kindle, Free Books for Kindle Fire, Free Books for ...LibriVox recordings are in the public domain, which means people can do anything they like with them. Mostly this just means people can listen to them for free. But it also means they can: sell them (for instance on ebay), broadcast them, put them in commercials, play them at political rallies, chop them up, remix them, make music recordings of ...William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king. Fired by ambition and goaded by his ruthless wife, he murders Duncan and ...LibriVox. LibriVox is a non-profit, ad-free website that offers more than 40,000 audiobooks. All audiobooks are read by volunteers who release them as free downloads. Although LibriVox audiobooks are completely free, they have a potential drawback: most of them are published only in English.The Best American Humorous Short Stories. Various and Alexander Jessup (1871 - ) Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omitted from this LibriVox audio book. (Summary by David Wales)In your FREE 30-day trial: Get immediate access and UNLIMITED downloads of over 200,000 digital content with no restrictions for FREE. Everything downloaded is yours to keep and enjoy for FREE with no obligations, even if you cancel during the trial. Flexibility to use the service on any major device and FREE download of the easy-to-use app ...LibriVox is turning 18, and we’ve just got another year older better! In the last year, our volunteers have created over 1200 new audiobooks, so let’s celebrate our anniversary with 10 of the latest gems from our catalog. The most exciting thing of last year was the addition of another language to our catalog: Indonesian.The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The scarlet letter "A" represents the act of adultery ... The Last Of The Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757. The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers.The story takes place in 1757 during the French and ...Tales from Shakespeare. Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) and Mary Lamb (1764 - 1847). The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to ...Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain. Skip to content. About; Contact; Forum; Help; Twitter; rssLibriVox Audio Books offers unlimited access to 40,000 free audio books. Each book can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use without any charge. The LibriVox Audio Books app...LibriVox Audiobooks gives you YouTube's best library of complete audio books of works that has entered the public domain. LibriVox objective is : "To make all books in the public domain available ...Frederick Douglass (c.1818 - 1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of ...Download LibriVox Audio Books and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. LibriVox Audio Books provides unlimited access to over 40,000 audio books. Each audiobook can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use.LibriVox brings together volunteers to read books in the public domain which they offer as free audio book downloads on MP3. They've recorded thousands of unabridged audio books, short stories, and poems. Some of their audio books feature collaborations from multiple narrators, while some of their titles are read by a solo narrator. ...The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful people and creatures along the way. Enjoy it …. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre popular in 18th-century Britain.Read by LibriVox Volunteers Joseph Berg Esenwein The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. Esenwein is a manual for people who have to speak in public, and it is still in us… Pride and Prejudice (version 3) Read by Karen Savage Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one ...LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 50,000 educational audio books, podcasts, and videos. LibriVox free audiobooks, audiobooks online. App for listening LibriVox audiobooks. All content is free and created by volunteers from all over the world.LibriVox has a huge selection of free audiobooks that are recordings of volunteers who have read chapters from books that are in the public domain. You can find one by searching by title, author, genre/subject, or language. You can also browse all the titles in the catalog, view only the most additions, and subscribe to new releases as podcasts.LibriVox's recordings are all made by volunteers, so audio quality can vary, and certain voices or accents can be a little difficult to understand if English isn't your native language. That said, this nonprofit service provides a vast trove of free audiobooks with the mission of making audiobooks more accessible online, and was a pioneer ...Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855) 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 searches for love, someone to care for her, and ...The Turn of the Screw. Henry James (1843 - 1916) The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess reports the events of two ghosts who stalk the young children she has charge over. Is she reliable, or an imaginative neurotic? (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre popular in 18th-century Britain.LibriVox Audiobooks gives you YouTube's best library of complete audio books of works that has entered the public domain. LibriVox objective is : "To make all books in the public domain available ... When new students arrive at her doorstep, they bring their own sets of troubles with them, such as dishonesty, disobedience, and naughty shenanigans. However, Mrs. Jo, alongside her steady husband, Fritz, uniquely guides each child along to the path to adulthood, inspiring him to become the best he can be. Likewise, though the couple is faced ...The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis -- inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for ...LibriVox About. LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free ...Our Island Story, Part 2. Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867 - 1941). Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated to a dazzling montage of kings, queens, barons, …The Iliad. Homer (c. 8th cen - c. 8th cen) Translated by Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902). The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language, making it …For instance, any play, manuscript or novel created by Shakespeare, is 100% in the public domain, which means no one has to get permission to make an audiobook recording of a Shakespeare work. Another exception to the norm must be considered too. For instance, let's say that Warner Brothers makes a Romeo and Juliet movie.Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs. John Foxe (1516 - 1587) and William Byron Forbush (1868 - 1927). The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its ...The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which each of a murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate ...Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city's utilitarian ideals and some of whom ...18 Years and Counting. LibriVox is turning 18, and we've just got another year older better! In the last year, our volunteers have created over 1200 new audiobooks, so let's celebrate our anniversary with 10 of the latest gems from our catalog. The most exciting thing of last year was the addition of another language to our catalog: Indonesian.The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which each of a murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate ...LibriVox. LibriVox is a non-profit website that hosts many public domain audiobooks. As volunteers provide the audio recordings, they may offer a different quality than a service like Audible. Still, LibriVox audiobooks are a great way to access timeless classics and many old children's books.John Milton (1608 - 1674) Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. His work, which was dictated from memory and ... Translated by Lionel Giles (1875 - 1958) "The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest and ...Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain. Skip to content. About; Contact; Forum; Help; Twitter; rssLibriVox. LibriVox is a non-profit, ad-free website that offers more than 40,000 audiobooks. All audiobooks are read by volunteers who release them as free downloads. Although LibriVox audiobooks are completely free, they have a potential drawback: most of them are published only in English.H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) H. P. Lovecraft's name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain.The Great Gatsby (version 2) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940). The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan (Summary from Wikipedia)LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 21st, 2007. Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) Language: English. Section Chapter Reader Time; Play 01 : Version 1: sir_darwen: 00:01:48:The men are back from the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young Claudio falls for Hero, the daughter of Leonato, governor of Messina, and his friend Don Pedro helps him secure her affection. These youthful lovers are contrasted with the more experienced (and more cynical) Benedick and Beatrice, who have to be tricked into ...Thomas Caprio Divorce Mediator was recently interviewed on the Impact Makers Radio Show, "Let's Talk Divorce!" series where he spoke about, 'The Benefits...Live, with last-minute updates, from LibriVox database. 7000+ human-read audiobooks. Free! No other apps have more Librivox audio books, and no other apps have more accurate information on librivox audio books. Read-along: Audio and Text are synchronized. You can read, listen, or read-Along, and…Les Misérables, Volume 1. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851 - 1928) This is book 1 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.LibriVox recording of The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by David Clarke The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had …LibriVox Audiobooks gives you YouTube's best library of complete audio books of works that has entered the public domain. LibriVox objective is : "To make all books in the public domain available ...Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon.Resurrection, Book 1. Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the magazine Niva as an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Dukhobors.The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination and sensitive spirit, has enchanted readers for generations. (Summary by Karen Savage) Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Avonlea. Anne of the Island. Anne's House of Dreams.Julius Caesar. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed at the Globe Theater, Julius Caesar is one of his best-known dramas and has received ...