James Christopher

75 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Short Long

*Non-fiction

563

Joseph Lewis French - Great Pirate Stories

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a...

James Christopher and 11 more 8 hours 47 minutes

No comments

Science Fiction

569

H. G. Wells - Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He...

James Christopher and 13 more 8 hours 14 minutes

No comments

Satire

522

Samuel Butler - Erewhon

Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part...

calystra and 8 more 8 hours

No comments

*Non-fiction

573

Jean-Henri Fabre - Life of the Spider

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary...

Bryan Ness and 6 more 7 hours 44 minutes

No comments

Anthologies

664

Short Story Collection Vol. 036

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members. The story of The Lamplighter (by Charles Dickens) is a special group reading, done by the following...

Shona and 13 more 7 hours 35 minutes Short Story Collections

No comments

War & Military

538

Gaius Julius Caesar - Commentaries on the Gallic War

Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues...

James Christopher and 6 more 7 hours 16 minutes

No comments

Short Stories

694

Short Story Collection Vol. 047

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Poul Anderson, Aphra Behn, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad,...

Tom Crawford and 15 more 7 hours 11 minutes Short Story Collections

No comments

Short Stories

674

Short Story Collection Vol. 034

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 034: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Lucy Lo Faro and 14 more 6 hours 59 minutes Short Story Collections

No comments

Historical Fiction

552

Howard Pyle - Men of Iron

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their home. His blind father...

Laura Caldwell and 11 more 6 hours 55 minutes

No comments

Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

Antiquity

565

Gaius (Sallust) Sallustius Crispus - Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as «Sallust». Nearly contemporary to the events he describes, he is supposed to have been a...

mwharr and 7 more 6 hours 43 minutes

No comments

*Non-fiction

498

Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason

The Critique of Practical Reason ( Kritik der praktischen Vernunft ) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 6 hours 43 minutes

No comments

Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Action & Adventure Fiction

544

Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)

Alex Foster and 12 more 6 hours 33 minutes

No comments

New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

Show all