Nietzsche, Melville, Jane Austen & More: The Latest Audio Book Classics Released by Librivox

Throughout March, the folks at Librivox were putting on the full court

press. Staging their own version of March Madness, Librivox and its army of volunteers completed 70 audio recordings of public domain texts. Among them, you’ll find some essential classics in literature and philosophy. The list of new additions starts with Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (full zip file - individual mp3 files) and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (full zip file - individual mp3 files), but it also extends to other time-tested classics. Let’s list them quickly:

• Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (full zip file - individual mp3 files),
• Albert Einstein’s Relativity: The Special and General Theory (full zip file - individual mp3 files),
• Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy (full zip file - individual mp3 files),
• Voltaire’s Candide (full zip file - individual mp3 files), and
• The Sayings of Confucius (full zip file - individual mp3 files).

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