Timeless public domain literature, narrated for the modern listener.
About
Trill Audio produces full-length audiobooks of works in the public domain — philosophy, literature, history, poetry — voiced with care and released free for everyone to listen to.
Every book is read in full, unabridged, and produced from publicly-available editions. New titles are released regularly on YouTube; the entire catalog lives here.
Our Approach
Every title is in the public domain. No paywalls, no subscriptions, no permission needed to share with a friend.
Full-length readings of complete works. The text the author wrote, beginning to end — nothing skipped, nothing summarized.
Each book is hand-prepared, narrated, and reviewed in multiple passes before release. Quality you'd expect from a small press.
The Catalog
The private journals of a Roman emperor — Stoic reflections written for himself, never meant for publication. Two thousand years later, still the clearest map we have for living a steady life in turbulent times.
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Franklin's own account of the printer's apprentice who became a founder — frank, witty, and full of homespun method. The original American self-help book, written without the genre.
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Dispatches from the Western Front in the final year of the war, written by one of the most-read novelists of the era after a tour of British forces at Roosevelt's urging. A civilian eyewitness account of total war as it was still being fought.
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The founding document of the modern scientific method, written when most of Europe still treated learning as the recovery of ancient authority. Bacon argues for observation, experiment, and humility before the natural world.
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Eleven working novelists of the 1890s — Norris, Parr, Walford, Baring-Gould, Macquoid, Gray, Falconer, Molesworth, Church, Douglas, Meade — each writing a short essay on a corner of their trade: style, plot, manners, color, vision, character, the short story, children's fiction, the historical novel, ethics, and editing. A practitioner's roundtable from the high Victorian era.
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The young publishing house's self-portrait after five years in business — essays by its authors, a who's-who of the writers Knopf had brought into English, and selected passages from his catalog. A snapshot of the Modernist moment from the desk of the publisher who chose what America would read.
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A scholarly life of the Anglo-Saxon king who turned back the Vikings, revived law and learning, and laid the foundations of England.
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First-hand accounts of daring escapes, scouting missions, and narrow brushes with death from soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War.
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An anthology celebrating the pleasures of walking — essays on roads, rambles, and the open country, introduced by Hilaire Belloc.
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Lectures and essays from leading 19th-century scientists on evolution, physics, and the nature of life — popular science from the Victorian frontier.
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The candid, witty correspondence of the great Russian writer — on art, travel, illness, and the writing life.
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A concise illustrated life of the French painter Ernest Meissonier, master of meticulous military and historical scenes.
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Chekhov's private jottings — story seeds, aphorisms, and observations — a glimpse into the workshop of a master.
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Appreciations of the great women novelists of the Victorian age, written by their literary successors — a tribute to Austen's heirs.
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Twelve sketches of the great philosopher-economist by his distinguished contemporaries, published the year of his death.
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