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200 free public-domain audiobooks: fairy tales, novels, philosophy and poetry, to listen to at Al-Warraq Library or download whole.

Free audiobooks you can listen to right here, chapter by chapter, or download whole to hear wherever you like. They are all recordings from LibriVox, a worldwide volunteer project whose readers record texts that are out of copyright and give their recordings to the public domain; the Internet Archive keeps the audio files.

The collection now holds two hundred books: three in Arabic, Kalila wa Dimna, al-Kawakibi's Tabai al-Istibdad and al-Mawardi's Adab al-Dunya wa al-Din; English readings of works from the Arab and Eastern heritage such as the Arabian Nights, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, the travels of Ibn Battuta, Gibran's Prophet and Scott's Talisman, with Saladin among its heroes; classics of world literature, from fairy tales to Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and The Great Gatsby; and books of philosophy, history and lives, with two for learners of English. Every book has its own page with our notes on it, its readers, its length and its chapters, and the player remembers where you stopped, so you can pick up where you left off.

From the Arab and Eastern heritage (16)

The TalismanWalter Scott14 h 27 min · EnglishEothenAlexander Kinglake8 h 34 min · EnglishKalila wa DimnaIbn al-Muqaffa'8 h 54 min · ArabicThe Arabian Nights EntertainmentsAndrew Lang10 h 34 min · EnglishThe ProphetKahlil Gibran1 h 29 min · EnglishTabai al-Istibdad wa Masari al-Isti'badAbd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi5 h 16 min · ArabicHayy ibn Yaqzan (The Improvement of Human Reason)Ibn Tufail3 h 11 min · EnglishAdab al-Dunya wa al-DinAbu al-Hasan al-Mawardi17 h 7 min · ArabicThe Travels of Ibn BattutaIbn Battuta7 h 12 min · EnglishThe Madman and The ForerunnerKahlil Gibran1 h 33 min · EnglishThe Fables of PilpayIbn al-Muqaffa'6 h 47 min · EnglishThe Confessions of al-GhazaliAbu Hamid al-Ghazali1 h 30 min · EnglishThe Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam15 min · EnglishThe AlhambraWashington Irving10 h 57 min · EnglishThe Poetry of Sa'di: A SelectionSa'di1 h 58 min · EnglishBy Desert Ways to BaghdadLouisa Jebb7 h 6 min · English

Philosophy and wisdom (20)

Tao Te ChingLao Tzu1 h 35 min · EnglishThe Nicomachean EthicsAristotle10 h 0 min · EnglishThe Apology of SocratesPlato1 h 15 min · EnglishUtopiaThomas More3 h 54 min · EnglishMeditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes3 h 29 min · EnglishPoliticsAristotle9 h 15 min · EnglishEssays: First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson8 h 29 min · EnglishSadhana: The Realisation of LifeRabindranath Tagore4 h 26 min · EnglishHow to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a DayArnold Bennett1 h 37 min · EnglishAcres of DiamondsRussell Conwell4 h 30 min · EnglishThe Art of Money GettingP. T. Barnum1 h 39 min · EnglishA Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft9 h 46 min · EnglishThe Art of WarSun Tzu1 h 12 min · EnglishMeditationsMarcus Aurelius6 h 59 min · EnglishThe PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli5 h 55 min · EnglishThe RepublicPlato13 h 14 min · EnglishThe Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius5 h 13 min · EnglishThe Sayings of ConfuciusConfucius3 h 12 min · EnglishWaldenHenry David Thoreau14 h 18 min · EnglishAs a Man ThinkethJames Allen54 min · English

Science, history and lives (21)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass4 h 3 min · EnglishThe Autobiography of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin2 h 45 min · EnglishUp from SlaveryBooker T. Washington7 h 58 min · EnglishTwelve Years a SlaveSolomon Northup8 h 5 min · EnglishThe Story of MankindHendrik Willem van Loon13 h 30 min · EnglishThe History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides20 h 57 min · EnglishHistory of Julius CaesarJacob Abbott4 h 48 min · EnglishAround the World in Seventy-Two DaysNellie Bly6 h 6 min · EnglishSailing Alone Around the WorldJoshua Slocum7 h 52 min · EnglishUnbeaten Tracks in JapanIsabella Bird12 h 56 min · EnglishLife on the MississippiMark Twain14 h 53 min · EnglishA Journal of the Plague YearDaniel Defoe12 h 5 min · EnglishHow to Speak and Write CorrectlyJoseph Devlin5 h 42 min · EnglishEdison, His Life and InventionsFrank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin29 h 42 min · EnglishOn the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin24 h 23 min · EnglishRelativity: The Special and General TheoryAlbert Einstein3 h 40 min · EnglishThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin7 h 31 min · EnglishThe Story of My LifeHelen Keller3 h 51 min · EnglishAlexander the GreatJacob Abbott5 h 56 min · EnglishCleopatraJacob Abbott6 h 29 min · EnglishThe Art of Public SpeakingDale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein19 h 51 min · English

Children's books and fairy tales (35)

Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll3 h 20 min · EnglishJust So StoriesRudyard Kipling3 h 33 min · EnglishEnglish Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs5 h 35 min · EnglishThe Blue Fairy BookAndrew Lang13 h 39 min · EnglishJapanese Fairy TalesYei Theodora Ozaki7 h 36 min · EnglishThe Reluctant DragonKenneth Grahame57 min · EnglishThe Enchanted CastleE. Nesbit8 h 34 min · EnglishFive Children and ItE. Nesbit5 h 39 min · EnglishThe Book of DragonsE. Nesbit4 h 7 min · EnglishThe Story of Doctor DolittleHugh Lofting3 h 9 min · EnglishPollyannaEleanor H. Porter6 h 7 min · EnglishAnne of AvonleaL. M. Montgomery8 h 49 min · EnglishLittle MenLouisa May Alcott9 h 44 min · EnglishDaddy-Long-LegsJean Webster3 h 38 min · EnglishThe Velveteen RabbitMargery Williams23 min · EnglishThe Princess and the GoblinGeorge MacDonald5 h 11 min · EnglishHans Brinker, or the Silver SkatesMary Mapes Dodge9 h 57 min · EnglishLittle Lord FauntleroyFrances Hodgson Burnett6 h 26 min · EnglishAlice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll2 h 44 min · EnglishPeter PanJ. M. Barrie5 h 4 min · EnglishThe Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett9 h 8 min · EnglishThe Adventures of PinocchioCarlo Collodi4 h 36 min · EnglishGrimms' Fairy TalesJacob and Wilhelm Grimm10 h 32 min · EnglishAndersen's Fairy TalesHans Christian Andersen5 h 49 min · EnglishThe Aesop for ChildrenAesop3 h 12 min · EnglishThe Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum3 h 45 min · EnglishA Little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett5 h 41 min · EnglishThe Railway ChildrenE. Nesbit5 h 1 min · EnglishBlack BeautyAnna Sewell6 h 15 min · EnglishHeidiJohanna Spyri9 h 45 min · EnglishThe Jungle BookRudyard Kipling5 h 2 min · EnglishThe Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame6 h 30 min · EnglishThe Swiss Family RobinsonJohann David Wyss12 h 45 min · EnglishAnne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery8 h 38 min · EnglishThe Happy Prince and Other TalesOscar Wilde1 h 42 min · English

Adventure (26)

IvanhoeWalter Scott19 h 25 min · EnglishKimRudyard Kipling13 h 8 min · EnglishTwenty Years AfterAlexandre Dumas25 h 43 min · EnglishThe Black TulipAlexandre Dumas7 h 34 min · EnglishCaptain BloodRafael Sabatini12 h 12 min · EnglishScaramoucheRafael Sabatini17 h 12 min · EnglishThe Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope5 h 42 min · EnglishTarzan of the ApesEdgar Rice Burroughs9 h 21 min · EnglishAllan QuatermainH. Rider Haggard13 h 7 min · EnglishThe Sea-WolfJack London11 h 29 min · EnglishCaptains CourageousRudyard Kipling5 h 57 min · EnglishThe Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper15 h 24 min · EnglishThe Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas54 h 57 min · EnglishTreasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson7 h 33 min · EnglishRobinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe13 h 55 min · EnglishThe Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas24 h 50 min · EnglishKing Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard9 h 51 min · EnglishThe Call of the WildJack London3 h 24 min · EnglishWhite FangJack London8 h 28 min · EnglishKidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson8 h 17 min · EnglishAround the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne6 h 33 min · EnglishTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJules Verne16 h 30 min · EnglishThe Mysterious IslandJules Verne21 h 58 min · EnglishThe Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle11 h 1 min · EnglishThe Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Orczy7 h 49 min · EnglishGulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift11 h 23 min · English

Crime and mystery (17)

The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle11 h 7 min · EnglishThe Valley of FearArthur Conan Doyle6 h 6 min · EnglishHis Last BowArthur Conan Doyle7 h 10 min · EnglishThe Amateur CracksmanE. W. Hornung5 h 25 min · EnglishWhose Body?Dorothy L. Sayers6 h 31 min · EnglishThe Red House MysteryA. A. Milne6 h 56 min · EnglishThe Innocence of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton10 h 23 min · EnglishThe Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-BurglarMaurice Leblanc5 h 55 min · EnglishThe MoonstoneWilkie Collins20 h 9 min · EnglishThe Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins25 h 35 min · EnglishThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle10 h 18 min · EnglishThe Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle8 h 35 min · EnglishThe Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle5 h 53 min · EnglishA Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle4 h 14 min · EnglishThe Sign of the FourArthur Conan Doyle4 h 17 min · EnglishThe Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan4 h 21 min · EnglishThe Mystery of the Yellow RoomGaston Leroux8 h 22 min · English

Science fiction and gothic tales (20)

The Lost WorldArthur Conan Doyle8 h 23 min · EnglishThe Island of Doctor MoreauH. G. Wells4 h 40 min · EnglishThe First Men in the MoonH. G. Wells8 h 3 min · EnglishA Princess of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs7 h 10 min · EnglishA Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne8 h 9 min · EnglishFrom the Earth to the MoonJules Verne4 h 39 min · EnglishThe Canterville GhostOscar Wilde1 h 23 min · EnglishThe Turn of the ScrewHenry James5 h 43 min · EnglishGhost Stories of an AntiquaryM. R. James10 h 7 min · EnglishThe Man Who Was ThursdayG. K. Chesterton6 h 1 min · EnglishFrankensteinMary Shelley8 h 17 min · EnglishDraculaBram Stoker16 h 31 min · EnglishThe Time MachineH. G. Wells3 h 40 min · EnglishThe War of the WorldsH. G. Wells6 h 36 min · EnglishThe Invisible ManH. G. Wells4 h 54 min · EnglishThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson3 h 8 min · EnglishThe Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde6 h 26 min · EnglishTwelve Creepy TalesEdgar Allan Poe5 h 9 min · EnglishThe Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux9 h 10 min · EnglishThe Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving1 h 23 min · English

Classic novels (34)

Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky23 h 26 min · EnglishThe Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald5 h 38 min · EnglishAnna KareninaLeo Tolstoy36 h 53 min · EnglishBleak HouseCharles Dickens43 h 30 min · EnglishSense and SensibilityJane Austen10 h 53 min · EnglishNorthanger AbbeyJane Austen8 h 12 min · EnglishPersuasionJane Austen7 h 16 min · EnglishMiddlemarchGeorge Eliot35 h 2 min · EnglishDavid CopperfieldCharles Dickens32 h 29 min · EnglishNotes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky5 h 6 min · EnglishThe Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne9 h 11 min · EnglishThe Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton12 h 33 min · EnglishTess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy17 h 52 min · EnglishEthan FromeEdith Wharton3 h 12 min · EnglishA Room with a ViewE. M. Forster7 h 46 min · EnglishDon Quixote, Part OneMiguel de Cervantes21 h 17 min · EnglishPride and PrejudiceJane Austen13 h 7 min · EnglishThe Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain6 h 46 min · EnglishAdventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain10 h 42 min · EnglishMoby Dick, or the WhaleHerman Melville24 h 38 min · EnglishEmmaJane Austen18 h 2 min · EnglishJane EyreCharlotte Brontë18 h 36 min · EnglishWuthering HeightsEmily Brontë14 h 49 min · EnglishA Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens15 h 0 min · EnglishGreat ExpectationsCharles Dickens20 h 26 min · EnglishOliver TwistCharles Dickens17 h 1 min · EnglishA Christmas CarolCharles Dickens3 h 14 min · EnglishLittle WomenLouisa May Alcott19 h 0 min · EnglishUncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe18 h 7 min · EnglishThe MetamorphosisFranz Kafka2 h 34 min · EnglishHeart of DarknessJoseph Conrad4 h 10 min · EnglishSiddharthaHermann Hesse5 h 6 min · EnglishThe Prince and the PauperMark Twain6 h 56 min · EnglishThe Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky37 h 55 min · English

Poetry, drama and epics (11)

The IliadHomer14 h 30 min · EnglishKing LearWilliam Shakespeare3 h 23 min · EnglishA Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare2 h 4 min · EnglishAn Ideal HusbandOscar Wilde3 h 17 min · EnglishPoems Every Child Should KnowMary E. Burt8 h 8 min · EnglishMyths and Legends of Ancient Greece and RomeE. M. Berens11 h 24 min · EnglishRomeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare3 h 2 min · EnglishHamletWilliam Shakespeare3 h 53 min · EnglishThe Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde2 h 18 min · EnglishThe OdysseyHomer11 h 42 min · EnglishBeowulfAnonymous2 h 46 min · English