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Librivox: Histoires ou Contes du temps passé avec des moralités by Perrault, Charles show

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Cette édition de 1742 nous rapporte les contes de ma mère l'Oye adaptés par Charles Perrault et agrémentés de moralités. Pleines d'enseignements, ces histoires du temps passé, contées, en France, depuis le Moyen Âge, nous ferons encore rêver ou frissonner avec leurs jeunes filles et jeunes gens dans l'adversité, leurs princesses et leurs princes et, bien sûr, leurs fées. Retrouvons donc le petit Chaperon rouge, Cendrillon, le Chat botté, ... et redécouvrons d'où nous vient ce « Anne, ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir ? » In this book, published in 1742, Charles Perrault accompanies his Tales of passed times, by Mother Goose, with witty morals. In the French language, let us discover or rediscover what happens to Cinderella, the Sleeping Beauty and their folk-tales peers. (Summary by Ezwa)

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Librivox: Short Poetry Collection 019 by Various show

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Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 019: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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Librivox: Child's Garden of Verses, A by Stevenson, Robert Louis show

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Beloved by many generations of children, A Child's Garden of Verses is a beautiful collection of children's poetry. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always fun. (Summary by Arctura)

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Librivox: Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness,  The by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie show

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Chronicles of Canada series Volume 4. These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion.. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives of the new world. (Summary by Esther)

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Librivox: Oxen, The by Hardy, Thomas show

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LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different recordings of The Oxen , by Thomas Hardy. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 17th, 2006.

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Librivox: Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph show

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A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, "the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and Stevenson and a complexly wrought 'art novel' in the tradition of Flaubert and James. (summary by Stewart Wills)

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Librivox: Golden Road, The by Montgomery, Lucy Maud show

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In the sequal to The Story Girl Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town of Carlisle.

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Librivox: Lost Princess of Oz, The by Baum, L. Frank show

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Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Along the way, they explore regions never seen in other Oz books, meeting strange and interesting people and animals, and falling into peril more than once. It’s a desperate mission – for if the thefts are all linked, then it means that some magician unknown to them has acquired powers beyond any available to them now. How will they find him? And how will they conquer him? Not one of them knows – but with continuing faith that goodness will triumph, they march forth to try. (Summary by Mark)

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Librivox: Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by Yeats, William Butler show

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LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven , by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 10th, 2006.

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Librivox: Cobb's Anatomy by Cobb, Irvin S. show

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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News , his hometown paper. At nineteen he became the managing editor; up to that point, our nation's youngest. He worked as a columnist, a humorist and an author. But 'horror,' and 'short stories,' are not why he is remembered. He is remembered because he was, and still is, funny. And although he is now dead--he died March 11, 1944--this work "Cobb's Anatomy," among others, has left an indelible mark upon mankind: a smile. (Summary by Carl Vonnoh, III)

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