William Shakespeare’s most well-known play is more than most people realize. While it is the story of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, it is als...
A divinely beautiful woman who becomes the cause of a terrible war in which the gods themselves take sides. Valor and villainy, sacrifices and betraya...
In a world where time is both a relentless master and a thrilling challenge, embark on an extraordinary journey that will test the limits of possibili...
Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, pr...
De Brevitate Vitae is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Pau...
"The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does...
The Unreality of Time is the best-known philosophical work of the Cambridge idealist J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925). In the argument, first published...
This instruction manual contains complete directions for making and fitting new staffs for watches from raw material. The author refers to several ill...
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old family. W...
The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories...
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The...
Eric John Stark, the Conan of the Spaceways, continues his adventures in this exciting story. This time he is on the shores of Venus' gaseous red seas...
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the generals of the...
This is an exquisite literary tapestry woven by the anonymous and enigmatic Frank Athelstane Swettenham, presenting a mesmerizing collection of letter...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up one day and find yourself back in the past?
In The Day before Yesterday, Richard Middleton ex...
Embrace the wisdom of the ages in "On the Shortness of Life" by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. In a world where time seems to slip through our fingers like gr...
This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military...
LibriVox volunteers bring you sixteen different recordings of Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the...
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Recuerdo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of Ju...
Ecclesiastes (or The Preacher) is the twenty-first book of The Bible. The author of this book is unknown but is considered by many biblical scholars t...
To His Coy Mistress is a famous 17th-century poem by Andrew Marvell. The poem is a passionate plea from a speaker to his beloved, urging her to abando...
Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was a London-born Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy. He was influenced by...
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15...