LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 5)

The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia

Read by Nicole Lee

Thomas Browne

Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…

Captain Cook

Read by Pamela Nagami

Walter Besant

James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Read by Arnie Horton

Bartolomé De Las Casas

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Read by Geoffrey Edwards

George Berkeley

Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, John Locke. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and the name Hyl…

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history an…

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 07

Read by Sibella Denton

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián

300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 08

Read by Sibella Denton

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 2

Read by Alan Winterrowd

Friedrich Schiller

The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

Pioneers of France in the New World

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Francis Parkman, Jr.

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Birth of Tragedy

Read by Jim Locke

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 4

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

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Immanuel Kant

Kant's Prolegomena, although a small book, is indubitably the most important of his writings. It furnishes us with a key to his main work, T…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

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David Hume

David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

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Francis Parkman, Jr.

"The Conspiracy of Pontiac" was Parkman's first history book and first published in 1851. It covers the Indian wars of 1763 to 176…

The Storm

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Daniel Defoe

The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Sto…

The Federalist Papers (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison

“The Federalist Papers” are a collection of 85 linked essays that explain the construction of the U.S. government and why it was built that …

Early Modern

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison