What delicious offerings did we have for you in July? A wide range, as usual:

“Doc” Smith’s space opera Triplanetary, eagerly awaited by all fans of reader Mark F. Smith.

The Sea Wolf and The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.

Eight recordings for children, including By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley, Baum’s The Magic of Oz and The Magic City by E. Nesbit.

Religion and philosophy, including St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Part Two, and The Autobiography of Madame Guyon, French mystic and advocate of Quietism.

101 years after the opening of Maria Montessori’s first Children’s House we have recorded the first English translation of The Montessori Method.

Volume One of one of the longest novels in the English Language the epistolary Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

Stephen Leacock’s Nonsense Novels.

Murder mystery Madame Midas by Fergus Hume, always a popular author here.

The strange and wonderful The First Book of Urizen by William Blake, and the equally strange and wonderful post-apocalyptic classic After London by Richard Jefferies.

As usual, of course, there are short stories, poetry, Sci-Fi (Collections 20 and 21), and Ghost and Horror stories.

We have catalogued works in Chinese, Hebrew, Swedish, Dutch and German.

And much, much more: for all works catalogued during July, please see this page.

Next month, during which we celebrate Librivox’s 4th birthday, I shall return to some lesser-known recordings from our first four years.

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Four women leave dreary post-WWI London for a month in an Italian castle. Highly recommended by listeners. Read by Diana Kiesners.

Multilingual Poetry Collection 004.
Poems in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
A wonderful recording of one of Dickens’ masterpieces. Read by Mil Nicholson.

The Magic World by E. Nesbit.
An enchanting and timeless collection of short stories by this much-loved author. Read by Ruth Golding.

King Lear by William Shakespeare.
This recording marked the 400th anniversary of the first performance of the play on December 26th 1606, and still holds the Librivox record for a major dramatic work – being completed in just a week.

History of the United States, Vol. I: The Colonial Period by Charles and Mary Beard.
The first volume of this seven-part work by the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. Volumes II – V are also available, and Volume VI is currently being recorded.

Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf von Immanuel Kant.
In der Abhandlung „Zum ewigen Frieden” wendet Kant die Grundsätze seiner Moralphilosophie auf die Beziehungen zwischen Staaten an. Aufgenommen von Christian Al-Kadi.

The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by John Charles Dent.
Spooky stories read by Moira Fogarty.

White Fang by Jack London.
Written as a companion to Jack London’s successful Call of the Wild (1903), this is the tale of a wild dog born in the wild and eventually brought to civilization.

Have fun!

A new selection of recordings for you to try!

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. This is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal, read by various readers.

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Different characters (and readers) in turn take up the narrative of this mystery novel.

The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper
Sci-fi read by Mark Nelson

Märchen 1 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Diese Sammlung umfaßt so berühmte Geschichten wie Rapunzel, Hänsel und Gretel, Rumpelstilzchen.

Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
The sequel to ‘The Prisoner of Zenda‘ read by Andy Minter.

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
A Lord Peter Wimsey who-done-it read by Kristin Hughes and Kara Shallenberg.

Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The classic children’s story read by Kara Shallenberg.

Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
One of the best known of Chesterton’s works of Christian apologetics, read by Ray Clare.

The Fairyland of Science by Arabella Buckley
Perhaps a little twee in places, but there is still good science for children in this book, written and read (by various readers) in a very accessible way.

La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas par Molière
Une comédie-ballet, cette pièce de théâtre est lu en francais par plusieurs lecteurs.