LibriVox Podcasts

This is a collection of 18 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2014.

In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).

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

In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes)

This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2014.

This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2014.

In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers select and read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2011.

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2011.

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2015.

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014.

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013.

A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US poets. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 019: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

In LibriVox’s Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection of 20 fairy tales in 6 languages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.

A collection of spooky stories culled from etexts found on Project Gutenberg (Summary by BellonaTimes)

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 058: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Collection containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members. Section 09: A Cornish Christmas Play, a mummers' play, was read by gathered members of the UK LibriVox chapter (Sarah O'Connor, Graham Redman, Cori Samuel and Peter Yearsley.)

Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. (Summary from Wikipedia)

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 041: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'five' in the title - in any language. They have done us proud, and the collection extends to three volumes of short stories, poems, fairy tales, memoirs, non-fiction and bible readings, in six languages. This is the third volume. (Summary by Ruth Golding) See also Volume 1 & Volume 2.

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven recordings of Nippon by Alfred Noyes. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 9th, 2007.

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 019: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 046: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories in various genres by authors including Edna Ferber, Charlotte Brontë, Stephan Crane, W. Somerset Maugham, Lord Dunsany, Saki and Honoré de Balzac.

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 003: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 057: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Summer Shower by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.

The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood.

This poem is taken from A Book of Women’s Verse published in 1921. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Starters, main courses and desserts from around the world, one dish for every day of the year. From Turkey to China, from India to England, from Austria to Egypt, a wide variety of mouth-watering cuisines are represented. Each recipe is described in one short paragraph, making this book perfect for dipping into when you’re seeking inspiration on what to cook. (Summary by Lucy Perry)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 readings of Winter Sport, by an unknown author. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 23 - 30, 2014. - Summary by Rachel

Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 8 (1902), 479-481.

Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. Now considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, with many horrified by the stark depictions of mental and physical cruelty. Though Charlotte Brontë ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 readings of Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Note: "Nephelidia" means "Cloudlets"; the poem is Swinburne's parody of his own style.

A classic ghost story of a haunted house, and the haunted man who lives in it.

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 readings of The Vanished Country, Grantland Rice's bittersweet reflection on life. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again finds himself captured, this time first by Arabs and then by Turks. He again manages to escape. A detailed look at the trials faced by Allied POWs during World War I. (Summary by Tom Weiss)

A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam

A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginning and remedial reading students. - Summary by KevinS

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of In these days . . . by Ebenezer Elliott. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 23rd, 2010.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 30th, 2007.

The story revolves around the mysterious Princess Ziska, who captivates a set of European tourists who are spending time in exotic Egypt. The story is a mystery involving reincarnation, romance & a touch of mild horror. (introduction by ilianthe)

In 1908 Leo Tolstoy organized a school for peasant children, age 10-13, in his house. During lessons he expounded them the most clear and important passages from Gospels. From those conversations Tolstoy composed that book. (Summary by Vladimir Anyanov)

A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)