Hear history read its own words

60 public-domain classics, each read in a voice restored from the author’s own archival recordings. Every sample below is free — press play and the words light up in gold.

Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
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T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Robert Baden-Powell
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
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William Jennings Bryan
In His Image
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
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Nikola Tesla
My Inventions
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Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays
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Henry Cabot Lodge
George Washington, Volume I
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christianity and Progress
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John Maynard Keynes
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
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George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
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Sigmund Freud
Dream Psychology
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G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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Henry Ford
My Life and Work
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Theodore Roosevelt
The Rough Riders
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William Howard Taft
Ethics in Service
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Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
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Warren G. Harding
State of the Union Addresses
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Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
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H.G. Wells
The Time Machine
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Calvin Coolidge
Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2d ed.)
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Margaret Sanger
Woman and the New Race
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H.L. Mencken
Prejudices: First Series
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Albert Einstein
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
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James Joyce
Dubliners
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Mahatma Gandhi
A Guide to Health
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William Carlos Williams
The Great American Novel
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Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time
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Robert Frost
North of Boston
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David Lloyd George
Where Are We Going?
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Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom
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Vladimir Lenin
A Letter to American Workingmen
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Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
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Robert W. Service
Songs of a Sourdough
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Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories
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Sun Yat-sen
The International Development of China
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George Washington Carver
The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation and Uses
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Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
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Charles Lindbergh
"We"
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Winston Churchill
The River War
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Vachel Lindsay
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
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Sarojini Naidu
The Golden Threshold
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W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
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Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle
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P. T. Barnum
The Art of Money Getting
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Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
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Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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William Booth
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
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Leon Trotsky
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
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W. B. Yeats
Responsibilities, and Other Poems
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Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
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P. G. Wodehouse
My Man Jeeves
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Renascence, and Other Poems
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John Dewey
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
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Maria Montessori
The Montessori Method
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
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Dwight L. Moody
Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It?
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