(Volume 11) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook.
Genre: folklore
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever bee ... Show More
Jun 3
News From Nowhere by William Morris ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
News From Nowhere by William Morris audiobook. Genre: scifi In News From Nowhere, William Morris blends dream vision, social criticism, and speculative fiction into a vivid journey through a transformed England. After falling asleep following a heated discussion about politics an ... Show More
7h 37m
Jun 2
The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie audiobook. Genre: history In this compact work of historical interpretation, pioneering archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie sets out to explain why great cultures seem to rise, peak, decline, and return ... Show More
1h 41m
Mar 2025
The Epic of Gilgamesh | Sleep Story for Grown Ups | Sumerian Mythology | Bedtime Sleep Stories
Relax with a gentle retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest stories ever told. Follow the mighty king of Uruk on a journey of friendship, loss, and the search for meaning. Including the stories of Enkidu, Cedar Forest, Humbada, Ishtar, Bull of Heaven, eternal life, ... Show More
1h 6m
Mar 2025
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, overwhelmed by rubbish, buried underground – that reveal something true about every ... Show More
16m 20s
Mar 2021
Fairytales and Short Stories - Hans Christian Andersen - Volume 1 - Book 3
<p>Fairytales and Short Stories - Hans Christian Andersen - Volume 1 - Book 3</p>
<p>Title: Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842</p>
<p>Overview: Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 - August 4, 1875) was a Danish author. Although a proli ... Show More
2h 33m
Apr 2022
Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 1: Volume 1: Part 1: The Borgias: 1492 and The Cenci: 1598
<p>Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 1: Volume 1: Part 1: The Borgias: 1492 and The Cenci: 1598</p>
<p>Title: Celebrated Crimes, Volume. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci</p>
<p>Overview: From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Cele ... Show More
4h 21m
Aug 2024
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine. It begins in Cairo, 1963. Four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life ... Show More
1h 1m
Feb 2024
LibriVox Anniversary Collections - Book 1, Volume 3, Part 1
<p>LibriVox Anniversary Collections - Book 1, Volume 3, Part 1</p>
<p>Title: LibriVox 5th Anniversary Collection Volume 3</p>
<p>Overview: What do you do for the fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find ... Show More
2h 8m