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by Colin Holbrook

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  • Doctor Ox's Experiment by Jules Verne

    April 18, 2023 · 2 hr 13 min

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has…

  • Dick Sands the Boy Captain by Jules Verne

    April 17, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many…

  • The Castle of the Carpathians by Jules Verne

    April 17, 2023 · 4 hr 13 min

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. The Castle stood above the quiet little town for as long as folks remembered: barren, deserted, lonely and frightening to the townsfolk. Until one day, smoke began to ascend from the dunjon…

  • The Castaways of the Flag by Jules Verne

    April 17, 2023 · 5 hr 15 min

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. Readers of the present book who have not read that named above—though all should read it as well as this—will have no difficulty in joining the story of the castaways to “The Swiss Family…

  • Captain Antifer by Jules Verne

    April 17, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. “No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the location to the Captain that saved him while fleeing certain…

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  • The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne

    April 11, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendants of a French soldier who married the rich widow of…

  • The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne

    April 10, 2023 · 2 hr 3 min

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade…

  • An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

    April 10, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The…

  • Abandoned by Jules Verne

    April 10, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within…

  • In Our Time by Ernest Hemignway

    April 3, 2023 · 26 min

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. This is the first edition of Hemingway's in our time, published in a very small run in France in 1924. And American edition was released the following year. There are 18 brief short…

  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

    April 3, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes…

  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

    April 3, 2023

    This is a LibriVox public domain recording. When Mr Henry Dashwood dies, with his estate entailed to his son and grandson, his wife and three daughters are left in reduced circumstances. In their new home at Barton Cottage, the two older…

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This podcast shares public domain audiobooks from LibriVox for everyone's enjoyment.