Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks
by Free Audiobook Library · 114 episodes
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Explore the most controversial, censored, and suppressed books ever written. This podcast features full audiobook recordings of banned books, forbidden literature, and public domain classics that have been challenged, restricted, or removed throughout history. From politically suppressed texts and revolutionary writings to novels accused of obscenity, heresy, or moral corruption, these works have shaped culture while facing resistance, censorship, and public backlash. Many of these books were banned in schools, censored by governments, or condemned for challenging authority, religion, and social norms. Each episode presents a complete audiobook experience, allowing you to hear these powerful works in full, exactly as...
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9 h 30
🟡 Pitt (Full Audiobook) | Archibald Primrose (Part 3 of 3)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), the controversial young prime min…
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9 h 30
🟡 Pitt (Full Audiobook) | Archibald Primrose (Part 2 of 3)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), the controversial young prime min…
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9 h 30
🟡 Pitt (Full Audiobook) | Archibald Primrose (Part 1 of 3)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), the controversial young prime min…
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7 h 26
🟡 United Nations Agreements (Full Audiobook) | United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945 is the constituent treaty of the United Nations. It is as well one of the constitutional texts of the Inte…
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3 h 21
🟡 On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Henry David Thoreau
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s.Author: Henry David ThoreauLe…
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8 h 23
🟡 Walpole (Full Audiobook) | John Morley (Part 3 of 3)
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biography of this important and controversial st…
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8 h 23
🟡 Walpole (Full Audiobook) | John Morley (Part 2 of 3)
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biography of this important and controversial st…
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8 h 23
🟡 Walpole (Full Audiobook) | John Morley (Part 1 of 3)
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biography of this important and controversial st…
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7 h 28
🟡 Labor and Freedom (Full Audiobook) | Eugene V. Debs (Part 2 of 2)
"While there is a lower class I am in it; While there is a criminal class I am of it; While there is a soul in prison I am not free. " (Eugene V.Author: Eugene V. DebsLength: 4 hou…
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7 h 28
🟡 Labor and Freedom (Full Audiobook) | Eugene V. Debs (Part 1 of 2)
"While there is a lower class I am in it; While there is a criminal class I am of it; While there is a soul in prison I am not free. " (Eugene V.Author: Eugene V. DebsLength: 4 hou…
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5 h 29
🟡 Orestes (Full Audiobook) | Euripides
In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands. Despite Apollo's earlier proph…
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3 h 48
🟡 Apology of Socrates (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Plato ()
The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in…
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8 h 46
🟡 Hard Times , Locked Out and On Strike (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens (Part 4 of 4)
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the n…
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8 h 46
🟡 Hard Times , Locked Out and On Strike (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens (Part 3 of 4)
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the n…
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8 h 46
🟡 Hard Times , Locked Out and On Strike (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens (Part 2 of 4)
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the n…
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8 h 46
🟡 Hard Times , Locked Out and On Strike (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens (Part 1 of 4)
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the n…
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8 h 54
🟡 Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Darwin (Par…
This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive Edition.Author: Charles DarwinLength: 23 hours 44…
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8 h 54
🟡 Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Darwin (Par…
This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive Edition.Author: Charles DarwinLength: 23 hours 44…
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8 h 54
🟡 Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Darwin (Par…
This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive Edition.Author: Charles DarwinLength: 23 hours 44…
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8 h 54
🟡 Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Darwin (Par…
This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive Edition.Author: Charles DarwinLength: 23 hours 44…