Free audio recordings

See my LV catalogue page for a current, if less-organised, listing. All these recordings are free to download, and except where marked, are public domain in the US. As far as I know they are all in the UK public domain, and probably for Europe — most are public domain globally. (However, check with the copyright laws of your own country if you are unsure.)

Last updated February 2016.
 

Selected Solo Works

Literary Fiction

Black Beauty: the Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell – Librivox page – archive.org page
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley – Librivox page – archive.org page
Orlando by Virginia Woolf – (NOT public domain in the US) – Legamus! page – download page
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – Librivox page – archive.org page
 

Children’s Fiction

The Water-babies by Charles Kingsley – Librivox page – archive.org page
Nine Unlikely Tales for Children by E. Nesbit – Librivox page – archive.org page
 

Non-fiction

My School Days by E. Nesbit – Librivox page – archive.org page
Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale – Librivox page – archive.org page
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf – (NOT public domain in the US) – Legamus! page – download page
The Soul of London by Kenneth Grahame – Librivox page – archive.org page
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole – Librivox page – archive.org page
 

Miscellaneous Fiction

Aunt Crete’s Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill – Librivox page – archive.org page
Living Alone by Stella Benson – Librivox page – archive.org page
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen – Librivox page – archive.org page
Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley – Librivox page – archive.org page
The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris – Librivox page – archive.org page
 

Poetry

Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein – Librivox page – archive.org page
Elegiac Sonnets and other Poems by Charlotte Turner Smith – Librivox page – archive.org page (Duet with David Barnes)
 

Whispered Recordings

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – Librivox page – archive.org page
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – Librivox page – archive.org page

I’ve split the rest of the categories onto separate pages, since this has been growing unwieldy – please click through for the various types of text you’re interested in:

Short Works

Chapters – Fiction

Chapters – Non-fiction

Podcasts

Poetry

Plays and Group readings