tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776Sun, 08 Sep 2024 11:54:36 +0000FictionLiteratureRomanceChildrenAdventureYoung adultFantasyHistoryHumorMysteryNatureWar storiesAnimalComedyDramatic WorksPsychologyArtBiographyFairy talesHorrorNon-fictionPlaySatireScienceTragedyTravelRead Books online, download eBooks, stream Audio Books or download them to your PC, iPod, MP3 Player Free for Everyone.http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-6887214255181290665Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:20:00 +00002013-12-20T07:23:49.423-08:00FictionLiteratureBy: Charles Dickens Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2013/11/oliver-twist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-5175861094848095067Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:52:00 +00002013-10-15T07:52:31.584-07:00AdventureAnimalChildrenComedyFantasyFictionHumorLiteratureYoung adultBy: Kenneth Grahane. This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters - Mole, Rat, and Toad - generally lead upbeat and happy lives, but their tales are leavened with moments of terror, homesickness, awe, madcap antics, and derring-do. Although classed as children's literature, The http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-wind-in-willows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-6082095030122827993Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:24:00 +00002013-10-03T18:56:01.519-07:00AdventureFictionLiteratureScienceYoung adultBy: Jules Verne A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Only later do they find they havehttp://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-mysterious-island.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-2986087468905145424Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:52:00 +00002013-10-03T18:41:31.512-07:00AdventureChildrenFantasyFictionYoung adultBy: E. Nesbit Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or is it? The castle turns out to be just a country estate, and the princess is only the housekeeper’s niece, playing at dressing up. But the magic ring she shows them http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-enchanted-castle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-6939678278773092675Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:06:00 +00002013-10-03T18:55:33.128-07:00ArtFictionLiteratureMysteryRomanceBy: Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of ’sensation novels’…. The Woman in White is also an early example of a particular type of Collins narrative in http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-woman-in-white.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-6072831984390812378Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:35:00 +00002013-10-03T18:55:16.867-07:00AnimalChildrenFairy talesFantasyFictionLiteratureBy: Joseph Jacobs. A collection of traditional English fairy tales. Read English Fairy Tales Book Online. HTML Format - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari. Text Format - Mac OS, Windows, Linux. Download English Fairy Tales eBook. ePUB - Apple iPad, Barnes and Noble NOOK,Sony Reader. Kindle - Kindle (Hardware), Kindle Reading Applications (Software). Plucker - Palmhttp://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/english-fairy-tales-by-joseph-jacobs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-7716438533467254110Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:12:00 +00002013-10-03T18:54:57.263-07:00ChildrenFictionWar storiesBy: Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, a cousin who has a story for every situation. As the children pass the summer, they get into trouble, have adventures, listen http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-story-girl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-2317138123696142286Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:54:00 +00002013-10-03T18:54:32.849-07:00FictionLiteratureRomanceBy: Virginia Woolf Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. (Wikipedia) Read Night and Day Book Online. HTML Format - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari. Text http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/night-and-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-2813574995095544762Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:16:00 +00002013-10-03T18:53:02.632-07:00FictionHistoryRomanceYoung adultBy: Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships. Previous books in this series: 1. Anne of Green Gables 2. Anne of Avonlea Read Anne of the Island Book http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/anne-of-the-island.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-214032661207956408Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:59:00 +00002013-10-03T18:52:42.786-07:00BiographyHistoryLiteratureNatureNon-fictionPsychologyBy: Henry David Thoreau. Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/walden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-7821634978083527436Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:47:00 +00002013-10-03T18:52:15.520-07:00ChildrenFictionHistoryLiteratureBy: Nathaniel Hawthorne The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The scarlet letter “A” represents the act of adultery that she has committed; it is to be a symbol of her sin for all to see. She will not http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-scarlet-letter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-9058077310562139421Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:11:00 +00002013-10-03T18:51:39.495-07:00FictionLiteratureMysteryBy: Gaston Leroux This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck... (Summary by Stuart Bell) Read The Mystery of http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-mystery-of-the-yellow-room.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-9210423149863484206Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:16:00 +00002013-10-03T18:51:17.938-07:00ChildrenFictionLiteratureRomanceWar storiesBy: F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a wealthy and attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has a series of romances that http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/this-side-of-paradise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-4824252008889692451Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:27:00 +00002013-10-03T18:50:50.542-07:00FictionLiteraturePsychologyBy: Jane Austen "All the privilege I claim for my own sex... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class boundaries and excessive pride. Anne Elliot, the story’s aged (27 year old) heroine, suffers from a decision that was forced upon her several years ago—to break off ahttp://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/persuasion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-7164389994218784999Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:52:00 +00002013-10-03T18:50:20.306-07:00FictionLiteratureRomanceBy: Charles Dickens This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith’s apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/great-expectations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-6331235012348440924Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:11:00 +00002013-10-03T18:49:56.358-07:00ChildrenFictionLiteratureNatureYoung adultBy: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centred child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely withdrawn into himself after the death of his wife. Mary gradually becomes drawn into the hidden side of the house: why does she hear the crying of a unseen child? Why is there an http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-secret-garden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-685037179794797372Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:26:00 +00002013-10-03T18:48:43.331-07:00Dramatic WorksLiteraturePlayRomanceTragedyBy: William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies. Braving parental opposition, the teenage lovers marry in secret, with the aid of the well-intentioned Friar Lawrence. Yet, http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/romeo-and-juliet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-2081809634155986161Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:51:00 +00002013-10-03T18:48:19.996-07:00AdventureFictionLiteratureBy: Herman Melville 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, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/moby-dick-or-whale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-1986817753901760489Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:43:00 +00002013-10-03T18:47:59.817-07:00FictionRomanceBy: Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen’s first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sensible Elinor and the sensitive Marianne both fall for men whose affections are otherwise engaged. The novel includes a wonderful cast of colorful supporting characters, as well as Austen’s trademark dry wit and ironic narration. (Summary http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/sense-and-sensibility.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-8123627357471915234Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:37:00 +00002013-10-03T18:47:29.653-07:00AdventureChildrenFictionLiteratureNatureYoung adultBy: Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-swiss-family-robinson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-6166955248479625580Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:29:00 +00002013-10-03T18:47:07.378-07:00FictionHorrorLiteratureBy: Bram Stoker The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public’s imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. Listen and you will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/dracula.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-7957903007451563038Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:43:00 +00002013-10-03T18:46:47.512-07:00Dramatic WorksFictionHistoryWar storiesBy: Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables is about an orphan girl who is starving for a family to love her. Her big words and bright spirits take her through many toils, trials, and temptations. Her romantic schemes make it nearly to impossible for any day of her life to be ordinary. Anne Shirley who was once a poor orphan girl learns through the care of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, to http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/anne-of-green-gables.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-8728578921814630043Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:10:00 +00002013-10-03T18:46:23.013-07:00ComedyFictionHumorRomanceSatireBy: Jane Austen Sherry reads Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands her friends and family until she finally learns her lesson! (Summary by Kara) Read Emma Book Online. HTML Format - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/emma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-7200784573740960744Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:05:00 +00002013-10-03T18:45:54.398-07:00AdventureFictionLiteratureMysteryBy: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence is collected, and then marvel at the impeccable observations, remarkable insight, and doggedness which Holmes displays as http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968209994056278776.post-7615639112500723150Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:33:00 +00002013-10-03T18:45:35.089-07:00FictionLiteratureRomanceBy: Thomas Hardy Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice, faith and infidelities, this dark story asks what is free will and what is fate? What is the true nature of nature, and how do we fit together? Can we fit together? A http://freepublicdomainaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/return-of-native.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0