LibriVox recording of 20,000 Leagues under the Seas, by Jules Verne. Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board the incredible submarine the Nautilus, courtesy of its mysterious pilot Captain Nemo and in the company of his servant Conseil and sailor Ned Land. (Introduction by Piper Hale) For...
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LibriVox recording of 1891 Collection by Various. Read by Bellona Times A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover, M4B or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio...
Topics: Romance, mystery, commentary, Max O'Rell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Orne Jewett, A J Payne, Edith...
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LibriVox recording of 12 CREEPY TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE(1809 - 1849) This is a collection of 12 creepy stories by that master of creepiness, Poe. The Black Cat; The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven; The Tell Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, the Premature Burial and six others that are a shuddering delight to read and listen to. Turn off the lights, settle down and hear these stories read to you as only LibriVox readers can perform them. (Summary by Phil Chenevert) For further...
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LibriVox recording of BIBLE: 1 CHRONICLES (KING JAMES VERSION). Read by Joy Chan. Written to aid those returning to Israel after the exile to understand how to worship God. 1 Chronicles covers the ascent and reign of King David. (Summary of Joy Chan) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader,...
Topics: bible, ancient texts, non-fiction, religion, christianity
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LibriVox recording of Being a Boy, by Charles Dudley Warner. Read by Mark Penfold. Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download...
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Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the abrupt arrival of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary who fought for the Serbian army. He takes refuge in her bedroom after the battle and although he is initially threatening, reveals that he carries chocolates instead of bullets. Will Raina...
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LibriVox recording of Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888, by Frances M. A. Roe. Read by Sue Anderson. "There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instantly, giving deep sighs, preparing to snort, I knew . . . To give myself courage, I talked to the horse, slowly turning him around . . . when out of the bushes in front of us, there came a third wolf! The situation was not pleasant and without...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, letters, Old West, army life, Fort Lyon
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LibriVox recording of Doom Castle by Neil Munro. Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilious journey, Count Victor arrives at Doom Castle as a guest of the enigmatic Baron of Doom, his two strange servitors and his beautiful daughter... (Summary by Carolin) For further information,...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, munro, neil munro, yldz, doom castle, count victor, drimdarroch
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Verzameling van gedichten in het Maastrichts, afkomstig uit "Van de Schelde tot de Weichsel. Nederduitsche Dialecten in Dicht en Ondicht, uitgekozen en opgehelderd door Joh. A. Leopold en L. Leopold", uitgegeven in 1882. De gedichten zijn geschreven door Theodoor Weustenraad, Guillaume Franquinet en L. Polis. Gelezen door Ans Wink. Voor meer gratis luisterboeken (in meer dan 25 talen) of om zelf vrijwilliger te worden, ga naar LibriVox.org . For further information, including links to...
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A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself. In an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Sherlock Holmes and Lupin actually meet, briefly in this first volume, and more...
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LibriVox , public domain recording of Charlton Miner Lewis' Gawayne and the Green Knight recorded by Betsie Bush. Charlton Miner Lewis’ version of Gawayne and the Green Knight , a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight’s challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady Elfinhart. The name Gawayne is often also spelled Gawain. (Summary by Betsie Bush) For more information or to volunteer, please visit...
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LibriVox opname van Geen Uitweg, van Charles Dickens. Gelezen door Marcel Coenders. Vertaling van het kerstverhaal van 1867. Een verwisseling van twee vondelingen in hun vroege jeugd veroorzaakt op volwassen leeftijd de nodige complicaties. Bijzonder is dat dit boek de noodzaak aantoont van snelle en betrouwbare internationale communicatie tussen banken zoals dat pas 100 jaar later in 1977 operationeel is. (Introductie door Marcel Coenders) Voor meer informatie, inclusief een link naar de...
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Librivox recording of The Fur Country by Jules Verne read by Esther. In 1859, officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company are given the mission to found a fort at 70 degrees north of the polar circle. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from then on, laws of physics seem altered (a total eclipse happens to be only partial; tides are not perceived anymore). They eventually realize that they are not where they are supposed to be. (wikipedia) For further information, including links to online...
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LibriVox recording of Comic History of the United States, by Bill Nye. Read by Allyson Hester. This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous remarks. The reader will enjoy a "different" type of history book based on facts, yet caustically embellished for entertainment purposes. (Summary by Allyson Hester) For further...
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Topics: history, comedy, comic, nye, bill, william, united, states, us, usa, new world, civil war, slavery,...
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LibriVox recording of The Coming People, by Charles F. Dole. Read by Max Cusimano. Dole briefly sketches the history of life, and shows how it has a definite direction - toward the survival of the kind and gentle people. It's a challenging, and quite persuasive argument, and also a much needed one in light of the dog-eat-dog theories out there. Dole shows that in our evolving society, our traditional understanding of "survival of the fittest" needs to be updated. A book that was way...
Topics: Philosophy, politics, religion, Librivox, audiobook
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LibriVox recording of Commentaries on the Gallic War, by Gaius Julius Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed Roman domination. The work has been a mainstay in the teaching of Latin to schoolchildren, its simple, direct prose...
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Compilation de poèmes - 004 d'auteurs divers. Lus pour Librivox par Britannia, BubbleReader, Ezwa, Herman Roskams, Jeckert, Kalynda, Kasper Nijsen, Marlène, maximoo, Nathalie Mussard, Patrick Wallace, severinelec, Violette. Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa) Pour obtenir d'autres renseignements, notamment sur le texte en ligne, la lectrice, les flux RSS, la jaquette de CD et les autres formats éventuellement disponibles,...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, livre audio, littérature, French, français, francais, French,...
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LibriVox recording of Daddy Long Legs, by Jean Webster. Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, epistolary fiction, orphan, letters
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LibriVox recording of British and American Periodical Articles 1852-1905, by various authors. Read by Bellona Times. A dozen assorted articles from British and American periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The Chicago Record-Herald, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, The Library, St. Nicholas, American Missionary, The Great Events by Famous Historians, and The Continental Monthly. (Summary by BellonaTimes) For further...
Topics: Nonfiction, literature, Librivox, audiobook
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Librivox recording of The Death of the Lion by Henry James. Read by Christine Dufour. This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the celebrity of the day. The sudden and untimely death of the author, with his latest work unfinished, presents a troubling dilemma for the narrator, which he resolves with...
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LibriVox Recording of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. IV, by Edward Gibbon The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were...
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Topics: Roman History, Rome, Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, Gibbon, LibriVox
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LibriVox recording of The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper. Read by Josh Smith & Bill Boerst. The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. (Introduction by Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Departed Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2001. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, and for further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (6MB)
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry, instruction, nature, philosophy
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LibriVox recording of De Anima, by Aristotle. Read by Geoffrey Edwards. On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations. Thus plants have the capacity for nourishment and reproduction, the minimum that must be possessed by any kind of living organism. Lower animals...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, philosophy, classics (antiquity), logic, non-fiction, aristotle
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LibriVox recording of The Defiant Agents, by Andre Norton. Read by Mark Nelson. Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet ahead of the Reds. Travis Fox had been an eager volunteer, but the morning he dragged himself half-conscious from the wrecked spaceship on the planet Topaz, he sensed the terror which would threaten the project. Travis never learned why the ship had crashed, nor why he and the other Apache agents had been shot into space without warning and...
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LibriVox recording of Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen, by Heinrich Heine. Read by Sonja. This reading is in German. Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen ist ein satirisches Versepos des deutschen Dichters Heinrich Heine (1797–1856). Unzufrieden mit den politischen Verhältnissen im Deutschland der Restaurationszeit, die ihm als getauftem Juden keine Möglichkeit für eine juristische Tätigkeit bot, und um der Zensur zu entgehen, emigrierte Heine 1831 nach Frankreich. 1835 verbot ein Beschluss des...
Topics: Deutsch, history, poetry, politics, literature, satire, Librivox, audiobook
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LibriVox recording of The Diamond Cross Mystery by Chester K. Steele. Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stolen. Whodunnit, and how can the Colonel's expertise in fishing help to solve the case? (Summary by Carolin) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
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LibriVox recording of "Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 001" Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Texte verschiedener Genres. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Hörbuch (30MB)
Topics: short stories, Kurzgeschichten, audio books, librivox, Hörbuch, German
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012. As a lecturer and orator, Emerson—nicknamed the Concord Sage—became the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States. Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had "a defect in the region of the heart" and a "self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry, fantasy, philosophy, myths/Legends
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LibriVox recording of DIANA, by SUSAN WARNER. Read by BRIDGET GAIGE. Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother wishes her to marry someone else. Yet, despite her mother's strong objections, she chooses her own husband. However, she can be truly happy only if she forgets her first love. Will she find the strength do do that? (Introduction by Stav Nisser) For further information, including links to...
Topic: fiction
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LibriVox recording of What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Recording by Betsie Bush. Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate the circumstances of women in the early 20th century. Diantha Bell is a normal young woman desiring marriage and a home, but also a challenging career in a new territory which raises many eyebrows and sets malicious tongues wagging. Her effort to elevate housework...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, fiction, careers, domestic science
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LibriVox Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1. The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume is released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow during the anniversary year. Volume 1 includes short stories including,...
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LibriVox recording of Fidelity, by Susan Glaspell. Read by Arielle Lipshaw. The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married man. Now that she's returned home to take care of her dying father, she faces some hard truths about who her true friends are and where her life is headed. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of The Film of Fear by Arnold Fredericks. Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and a viable career. But she soon becomes the target of a malicious stalker who begins sending her a series of cryptic threats. Dismissed at first, the stalker soon emerges as a legitimate -- and mysterious -- threat. She soon must call for the services of Richard and Grace Duvall, a husband and wife detective team who soon find themselves...
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LibriVox recording of Find the Woman, by Gelett Burgess. Read by Grant Hurlock. Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the secret loom of fate, weaving in and out through many-colored threads, until the pattern of the mystery is made clear. For the warp of his strange, adventurous career - love and beauty and diamonds. For the...
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Topics: audiobook, librivox, fiction, adventure, mystery, Gelett Burgess
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LibriVox recording of The First Apology of Justin Martyr , by Saint Justin Martyr. The purpose of the Apology is to prove to the emperors, renowned as upright and philosophical men, the injustice of the persecution of the Christians, who are the representatives of true philosophy … Christians are the true worshipers of God, the Creator of all things; they offer him the only sacrifices worthy of him, those of prayer and thanksgiving, and are taught by his Son, to whom they assign a place next...
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Topics: librivox, religion, first apology, justin martyr, audiobook
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LibriVox recording of Farewell, by Honoré de Balzac. Read by Martin Geeson. In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the wings; the Lady of Shalott waits for the shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion. Freud’s earliest patients will soon enter the waiting-room...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, French literature, war stories.
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LibriVox recording of Favorite Fairy Tales. This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Little Red Riding Hood; Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and Rose Red, The Wild Swans, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, and 4 others that are not so famous. The stories included were based upon the those that various famous men remembered as their favorites when...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, children, fiction, fairy tales, peter newell,
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LibriVox recording of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basil Hallward. Once the painting is complete, Dorian realizes that it will always be young and attractive, while he will be forced to age and wither with the years. Carelessly, he wishes the opposite were true. What happens is a treatise on morals, self-indulgence and how crucial personal...
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LibriVox recording of The Fortunate Youth, by William John Locke. "Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our story. But his desired success comes at a very high price." (Summary by Stav Nisser) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, fiction, England, poverty
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LibriVox recording of Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln, by James Baldwin. Read by Sibella Denton. Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be interesting for adults as well. The stories touch on the little humanities of the great men, rather than dwelling on the great works and great events of their lifetimes, without ignoring the latter. (Summary written by Sibella Denton)...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, children, biography, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster,...
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LibriVox recording of Four Science Fiction Stories by G. L. Vandenburg Read by Phil Chenevert G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. These four are a selection that give a good taste of his offbeat approach, strange sense of humor and relaxed narrative style that brought joy and excitement to those of us who bought these magazines and saw his name on the cover. In the first, Martian V.F.W., some 6...
Topics: science fiction, SF, librivox, vandenburg, audiobook
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LibriVox recording of France in the Nineteenth Century, by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer. Read by Cathy Barratt. Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to...
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LibriVox recording of FRATERNAL CHARITY, by FATHER BENOIT VALUY. Read by Dave7. This short treatise comes from a work by the Roman Catholic priest Father Valuy, S.J., and bears an imprimatur. It was written for members of religious orders; yet, as the translator notes, it may be of interest to others, for "love, the sunshine of existence, is wanted everywhere." The first five chapters cover the fundamentals of fraternal charity. Chapters 6 through 17 discuss twelve characteristics of...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, religion, Catholic, religious life, virtues
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Librivox Aufnahme von Frau Jenny Treibel , von Theodor Fontane. Read in German by Hans Hafen. Frau Jenny Treibel oder „Wo sich Herz zum Herzen find’t“ ist ein Roman Theodor Fontanes. Ende 1892 ausgeliefert, gewann der Roman sehr schnell die Gunst von Publikum und Kritik. Er hat sie bis heute ohne erkennbare Einschränkung bewahrt. Mit scheinbar nur halbem Ernst wird dem Leser eine Geschichte vorgeplaudert nach dem Muster einer Komödie. Im Zentrum des Romans stehen zwei Berliner Familien:...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, german, literatur, hörbuch
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LibriVox recording of Fräulein Minna und der Reitknecht, by Wilkie Collins. Read in German by Hokuspokus Minnas neuer Reitknecht Michael kennt weder seine Mutter noch seinen Vater. Sie ist fasziniert von dem Mann, der versucht, das Beste aus seiner Situation zu machen und fühlt sich mehr zu ihm hingezogen, als es ihrem Stand entspricht. Sehr sonderbar ist das Benehmen von Minnas Tante Claudia gegenüber dem Reitknecht. Welches Geheimnis verbirgt sich hinter der Abneigung, die sie Michael...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, german, Deutsch, Detektiv, Collins
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LibriVox recording of The Essentials of Prayer, by Edward M. Bounds. Read by Elsa Gallo. The Sunday School Times says of the author, "he was a specialist in prayer and his books are for the quiet hour, for careful meditation and for all who wish to seek and find the treasures of God." This book is a ready helper for those who want to follow his path, with more and better communication with the Lord. (Summary by Editor & Reader) For further information, including links to online...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, Prayer, religion, faith, meditation, God, spiritual, worship, Christianity
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LibriVox recording of The Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza. The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in Latin. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. In The Ethics, Spinoza attempts to demonstrate a "fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it...
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Topics: Librivox, Philosophy, Audiobook, Ethics, Spinoza, God, emotions, logic, mind
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This is a LibriVox recording of Two Years in the Forbidden City, by Princess Der Ling. Recording by Jc Guan. THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese officials of his generation. she became First Lady-in-Waiting to the Empress Dowager, and while serving at the Court in that capacity she received the impressions which provide...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, china, der ling, princess, forbidden city, chinese history, biography, life in...
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LibriVox recording of Free Air, by Sinclair Lewis. Read by Hollis Hanover. This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by a noble but simple commoner she meets along the way. Lewis is at his usual wryly humorous self, poking fun at the upper class and treating the common people only slightly better. Summary by Hollis Hanover....
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Topics: audiobook, librivox, adventure, travel, comedy, car, automobile trip
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
