Moby Dick, or the Whale

Book · Librivox

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

Wuthering Heights

Book · Librivox

The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. There are differing opinions on whether this is the ultimate love story or the ultimate story of revenge. (Summary by Wikipedia…

8 Jan 2014 34 episodes English Read by LibriVox Volunteers Arts

The Metamorphosis

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"The Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 and one of his best known works. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a horrible verminous creature. Terrifying in its banal simplicity, it became one of the seminal works…

5 Jan 2014 6 episodes English Read by David Richardson Arts

Mandela Memorial Service - JHB

Series · A tribute to Nelson Mandela

The memorial service for Nelson Mandela held in Johannesburg

10 Dec 2013 3 episodes English Society & Culture

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of “Huck” Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer’s sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), his friend Jim, and their journey…

1 Dec 2013 43 episodes English Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg Kids & Family · Arts

Pinocchio

Series · StoryNory

The very lively, comic, and sometimes sad (but not for long) adventures of a boy-puppet.

5 Aug 2013 36 episodes English Arts · Kids & Family

Katie, The Ordinary Witch

Series · StoryNory

Katie is an ordinary girl apart from one thing - she's a witch and can do magic spells.

23 Aug 2013 24 episodes English Kids & Family · Arts

The Secret Garden

Series · StoryNory

The classic story of a spoilt girl who learns to love life, people and nature when she discovers a secret garden.

30 Jul 2013 28 episodes English Arts

Peter Pan

Book · Librivox

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

Dubliners

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Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a…

18 Apr 2013 16 episodes English Read by Tadhg Arts

The Art of War

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“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…

9 Apr 2013 13 episodes English Read by Moira Fogarty History · Philosophy

Gulliver’s Travels

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Gulliver’s Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the “travellers’ tales” literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift’s magnum opus and is his most celebrated work,…

8 Feb 2013 40 episodes English Read by Lizzie Driver Arts

Heart of Darkness

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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on…

31 Jan 2013 6 episodes English Read by Bob Neufeld Arts

The Divine Comedy

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The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened “Divina” by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance…

25 Jan 2013 19 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts

The Prince

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The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after…

18 Jan 2013 14 episodes English Read by Paul Adams Arts

Ulysses

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Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature…

11 Jan 2013 39 episodes English Read by Various Readers Kids & Family · Arts · Science

Les Misérables Volume 2 : Cosette

Book · Librivox

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

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll .It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The…

4 Dec 2012 12 episodes English Read by Various Readers Kids & Family · Arts

A Tale of Two Cities

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells…

16 Nov 2012 45 episodes English Read by Various Readers History · Arts

An Ideal Husband

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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in “the present”, and takes place within a single day. “Sooner or later,” Wilde notes, “we shall…

5 Nov 2012 4 episodes English Read by Various Readers Comedy · Arts · Arts