LibriVox recording of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Read by Kara Shallenberg. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the "literary nonsense" genre, and...
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Librivox recording of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. Read by Librivox volunteers. Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and then straight on till morning. You know the story... and if you don't, please start listening immediately! (summary by Meredith Hughes) For further information, including...
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LibriVox recording of The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells. Read by Mark Nelson. H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon. (Summary by Mark Nelson) For further...
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LibriVox recording of The City at World's End, by Edmond Hamilton. Read by Mark Nelson. A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galaxy Magazine. (Summary by Mark Nelson) 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...
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LibriVox recording of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Read by Eric Leach Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends. The tale plays with...
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LibriVox recording of The Reluctant Dragon, by Kenneth Grahame. Read by Mark F. Smith. What would you do if you discovered a dragon living in a cave on a hill above your home? Make friends, read poetry together? It turns out that not all dragons are intent on pillaging the countryside. Some might actually enjoy peace, quiet, and the occasional banquet. The Boy of this story knows how to handle dragons, and life is good… until a knight in shining armor arrives in town to exterminate his...
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection was developed by librarians at Texas A&M over the past several decades. Now one of the largest collections of its kind, it houses the papers and manuscripts of Chad Oliver and Michael Moorcock, and is a depository for the books and papers of George R. R. Martin. The Web archives of the SFFRC are intended to document the online presences of prominent figures in the genre as well as fan culture.
Topics: Science Fiction, Fantasy Literature
LibriVox recording of Thuvia, Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read by Chymocles. John Carter's son, Carthoris, falls in love with his father's true friend, Thuvia of Ptarth, but she has been promised to another and is kidnapped by a third! Carthoris, suspected of the crime, spends the entire novel in efforts to rescue her and restore her to her fiancé. The adventures introduce to us a philosophical system or fringe science that challenges our conception of the nature of reality itself....
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LibriVox recording of 20 Short Science Fiction Stories by Various. Read in English by KirksVoice Compilation of 20 Science Fiction Short Stories - Summary by Kirk Ziegler 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 Audiobook (278MB)
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LibriVox recording of Sex Life of the Gods, by Michael Knerr. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Beth Danson was about twenty-five and, besides her deep auburn-brown hair and lovely face, she boasted an equally attractive body. He found himself captivated by the warm thrust of her breasts beneath the silk blouse. The clear milk of her flesh, at the “V” of her throat excited him in a strange way. When he thought of her as his wife, it was frightening. It was as though someone had tossed him a...
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LibriVox recording of The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read by Thomas A. Copeland. In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the land of the dead) in a heroic struggle to recover the beautiful Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. He scours the planet from pole to pole, enduring imprisonment and torture, outwitting antagonists, reveling in carnage, accepting aid from unlikely sources, and dealing...
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LibriVox Aufnahme von Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland, von Lewis Carroll. Gelesen von Kara und Elli. Die Titelheldin Alice wird während eines langweiligen Picknicks mit ihrer Schwester auf ein weißes Kaninchen aufmerksam, dem sie schließlich in dessen Bau folgt. Dabei landet sie in einer traumartigen Unterwelt, die vor Paradoxa und Absurditäten nur so strotzt. Beim Versuch, dem Kaninchen zu folgen, passieren dem Mädchen zahlreiche Missgeschicke... (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia) For...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, carroll, fantasy, children, german, Deutsch, Alice’s Adventures...
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"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that moment onward we drift with Alice into another world. When she sees a White Rabbit as it runs through the tall grass (looking worriedly at the watch it takes from its waist-coat pocket), she runs after it and drops into a strange dream. The world is full of chatty animals, from a rather stand-offish hookah-smoking caterpillar to the friendly Cheshire Cat which...
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LibriVox recording of Amadis of Gaul, by Vasco de Lobeira. Translated by Robert Southey. Read by volunteer readers. Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was first written - Portuguese or Spanish. It is imagined to have been composed in the 14th century, but the known first printed edition came to light in Zaragoza in...
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Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, Adventure, Fiction, Fantasy, Literature
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Archive of different materials related to The Witcher Franchise. Mainly fan content ( especially art ) ranging from the most standard fanart, to NSFW fanart with some artistic value. Also, written content from The Witcher Fanon Wikia in PDF format, OST from the different adaptations and more.
Topics: Videogames, Books, Novels, Fantasy, The Witcher
LibriVox recording of The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit. Read by Peter Eastman. Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or is it? The castle turns out to be just a country estate, and the princess is only the housekeeper's niece, playing at dressing up. But the magic ring she shows them proves -- to her surprise and...
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LibriVox recording of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian’s beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil’s, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry’s world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry, fantasy, fiction, horror/ghost stories
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LibriVox recording of Four Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse. Read in English by KirksVoice Four Science Fiction stories published in Science Fiction Adventures Magazine and Galaxy Science Fiction, written by Alan Edward Nourse (August 11, 1928 – July 19, 1992). He was an American science fiction writer and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works sometimes focused on medicine and/or psionics. -...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, science fiction, fantasy, sf
LibriVox recording of Robin Hood, by J. Walker McSpadden. Read by Barry Eads. Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes. The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, adventure, fantasy, fiction, historical fiction, myths/legends
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LibriVox recording of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. Read in English by Thomas A. Copeland Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second twelve were to depict the application of these moral virtues to remedying evils that afflict the world. Each of the first set of quests was to begin at the court of the Fairy Queen,...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, satire, literature, poetry, politics, philosophy, religion, psychology,...
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Widely regarded as a broadcasting landmark, this thrilling dramatization by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell boasts a truly outstanding cast, including Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens, and John Le Mesurier. Tolkien's tale relates the perilous attempt by Frodo Baggins and company to defeat the evil Sauron and dispose of the Ruling Ring. Brian Sibley, one of the original dramatists, wrote the opening and closing narration for the character of Frodo, played by Ian Holm, who now stars...
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Topics: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien, BBC Radio, Radio Drama, Fantasy, Soundtrack
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07/20
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Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The series began in 1983 with The Colour of Magic and continued until the final novel The Shepherd's Crown was published in 2015, following Pratchett's death. The books frequently parody or take inspiration from J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens and...
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LibriVox recording of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Read in English by T. Craft Dorothy, a farm girl is whisked away from her home by a cyclone. She lands in the marvelous land of Oz, where she finds out she has saved the Munchkins from The Wicked Witch of the East. She is given the witch's Silver Slippers and told to go to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz for he is the only one who can send her back home. With the help of a Scarecrow, a Woodsman of Tin and a Cowardly Lion, she must...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Oz, dorothy, fantasy, magic
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products; Dungeon is the other. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007
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A Hollywood feature film with the tagline "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told" is releasing worldwide on Valentine's Day. It is a romantic movie with hot, spicy and erotic scenes that excites couples and lovers worldwide. The feature film name is "The Kamasutra Garden" based on an acclaimed novel that is available in major bookstores worldwide. "The Kamasutra Garden" is the story of the "only brothel in the world" in Nevada that trains the girls...
Topics: Couples, Wild, BDSM, Fetish Scenes, hot, spicy, erotic, romantic, Lovers, sexy, sex, nymphomaniac,...
LibriVox recording of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Recording by Cori Samuel. Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was "Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell." It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, fiction, fantasy, horse, horses, animals
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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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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, fantasy, fiction, science fiction, sea stories
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LibriVox recording of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), by Oscar Wilde. Read by Bob Neufeld. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several alterations, and adding new chapters; the amended version was published by Ward, Lock, and Company in April 1891. The novel tells of a young man named...
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ORIGINAL JAPANESE TITLE: Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji NO SUBS AS OF NOW! THIS ANIMATION IS NOT CHILDREN! FOR ADULTS ONLY! 18+ DISCLAIMER: THIS MOVIE AND ANIME SERIES IS A HENTAI! THIS MOVIE WAS THE FIRST ANIME TO BE GIVEN AN NC-17 RATING BY THE MPAA WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, GRAPHIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE, GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE, DISTURBING IMAGERY, DISTURBING THEMES AND DISTURBING CONTENT! VIEWER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED! PLOT: The relative...
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Topics: nc-17, adults only, 18+, action, hentai, animation, sci fi, horror, supernatural, fantasy, anime,...
Librivox recording of The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Walemar Bonsels. Read by Betsie Bush. The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction that Maya experiences in the beauty of creation and all creatures. Her ultimate and innate loyalty to her Nation of Bees is acted out in the final heroic scenes. This story gives us the delightful sense of having seen...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children, bees, animals, nature, adventure, folklore, fantasy
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Dreams Collection 1 - Stories and Poems by Various. Read in English by Michele Fry; Nemo; dg73; Phil Schempf; Newgatenovelist; Steve Mayer; William Allan Jones; Sarah Brown; Algy Pug; mokka; Colleen McMahon; Amy Gramour This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available),...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fantasy, short stories, dreams, visions
LibriVox recording of The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too, by Alfred Elwes. Read by Allyson Hester. This fictional work is written in 1st person by the dog himself. It's a cute story of the adventures in the life of a noble dog who is appropriately named, Job. The canine society in which he lives is an interesting parallel to human society. (Summary by Allyson Hester) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, adventure, animals, children, fantasy, fiction
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LibriVox recording of Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll. Read by Kara Shallenberg. In this sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Alice is playing with her kittens — a black kitten and a white kitten, the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in the first book — when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection... (summary from wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of Alice in Wonderland (Drama) by Alice Gerstenberg. Read by a full cast. A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes through the looking glass and encounters a variety of strange and wonderful creatures from favorite scenes of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the Through the Looking Glass. Including a conversation with the Red and White Queens, encounters with Humpty Dumpty,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children, play, fantasy, wonderland
LibriVox recording of The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson. Read in English by Mark Nelson The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high – the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of Energy, known as the "air clog", powered from a subterranean energy source...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, librivox, audiobook, fantasy, Hodgson
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Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion. Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins
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The Sandman's main character is Dream, the titular Sandman, also known to various characters throughout the series as Morpheus, Oneiros, the Shaper, the Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, the Dream King, Dream-Sneak, the Cat of Dreams, Murphy, Kai'ckul and Lord L'Zoril, who is the anthropomorphic personification of dreams. At the start of the series, Morpheus is captured by an occult ritual and held prisoner for 70 years. Morpheus escapes in the modern day and, after avenging himself upon...
Topic: Vertigo, Dark Fantasy, comic
here is a Complete American Nintendo Entertainment System ROM set Edit 1: I have also included Nestopia (The best NES emulator ever) and the Nestopia source code Edit 2: I have also included some betas, prototypes, rom hacks, and homebrews, Edit 3: I some times add roms not officially licenced games but Rom Hacks, Prototypes, Betas, and Homebrews. Edit 4: Also I don't include any re-releases for example "Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Rev A)" Or "Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Rev...
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LibriVox recording of Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood. Read in English by Marcelle D Ward; Sylviamb; ToddHW The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity of both two- and four legged neighbours. What to do? Luckily, an old manuscript of the learned Spaniard, Don Constantino Bartolomeo...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, humor, sci-fi, science fiction, fantasy, 1893, 2017, trump
LibriVox recording of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 6) by Lewis Carroll. Read in English by StudioMike Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with...
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LibriVox recording of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Version 7) by Lewis Carroll. Read in English by Craig Franklin Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is probably one of the most well known and popular children's novels in the English language. Written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, better known by his pen name ‘Lewis Carrol’. Lewis, a mathematician, poet, photographer and inventor, tells a surreal fantasy tale, of Alice, who visits a world of unnatural logic after following a...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, children, fiction, fantasy, Moral, funny
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Female Tech Priest Art [ Warhammer 40k ] by Various artists
Topics: Art, Digital Art, Fanart, Science Fiction, Mars, Warhammer 40k, Fantasy, Space Opera
LibriVox recording of The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. Recording by Andy Minter. George MacDonald's fairy stories and fantasy have inspired a number of writers including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and of this popular fairy story, which as you might suspect concerns a little princess plotted against by a race of goblins, G.K. Chesterton said that it "made a difference to my whole existence." (Summary by Andy Minter) For further information, including links to online...
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LibriVox recording of The Book of Dragons, by Edith Nesbit. Read by Laurie Anne Walden. A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses: These eight dragon tales are filled with the imaginative wit of children's author Edith Nesbit. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) View a printable CD booklet. Download Album Art For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD...
Topics: Children, fantasy, literature, Librivox, audiobook
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2013. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. After her younger sister Lavinia discovered the collection of nearly eighteen hundred poems, Dickinson's first volume was published four years after her death. Until the 1955 publication of Dickinson's Complete Poems by Thomas H. Johnson,...
Topics: librivox, literature, poetry, fantasy, horror/ghost stories, mystery, myths/legends, nature
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Librivox recording of The Light Princess, by George MacDonald. Read by Laura Fox. Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it removes all the princess's gravity. What can break the curse before the princess floats away? Perhaps the best thing for her would be to fall in love, but how a person with no gravity can fall in anything is just the problem. (summary by LauraFox) For further information, including...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, children, juvenile, audio book, george macdonald, fairy tale,...
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LibriVox recording of The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen. Read in English by Mark Nelson The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later it describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the...
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Librivox recording of King Arthur and His Knights , by Maude L. Radford. A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, and the search for the Holy Grail. (Summary by Robin Cotter) Read by Robin Cotter. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
Topics: king arthur, librivox, myth, fantasy, knights, round table, holy grail
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02/21
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The Shadow Radio Show 1937-1954 Old Time Radio (All Available Episodes). All shows reviewed for date accuracy and titles. Cover artwork added.
Topics: old time radio, radio, the shadow, crime, mystery, fantasy, action
LibriVox , public domain recording of Terry Carr's Warlord of Kor . Warlord of Kor was originally published in 1963 as half of an Ace Double, selected by legendary editor Donald A. Wollheim. It is an interplanetary adventure, as humans probe the mysteries of the planet Hirlaj and the few remaining aliens who live there. Terry Carr never really shone as a writer, though he did write some remarkably thoughtful stories. However, his talents as an editor and anthologist were important and...
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