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Librivox: Märchen - Almanach auf das Jahr 1827 by Hauff, WilhelmJoin Now to Follow
Hauffs Märchen entstanden in der Spätromantik. Der zweite Band um den Scheik von Alessandria und seine Sklaven verlässt den rein orientalischen Handlungsraum; Zwerg Nase und zwei von Wilhelm Grimm übernommene Märchen (in dieser Aufnahme nicht enthalten) stehen in der europäischen Märchentradition. (Summary by Wikipedia) Der Scheik von Alessandria und seine Sklaven (Rahmenerzählung) Der Zwerg Nase Abner, der Jude, der nichts gesehen hat Der Affe als Mensch Die Geschichte Almansors LibriVox-Aufnahme von Band 1, Märchen - Almanach auf das Jahr 1826
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Librivox: Trésor des Fèves et Fleur des Pois by Nodier, CharlesJoin Now to Follow
C'est ainsi que commence ce conte de fées : « Il y avait une fois un pauvre homme et une pauvre femme qui étaient bien vieux, et qui n'avaient jamais eu d'enfants : c'était un grand chagrin pour eux, parce qu'ils prévoyaient que dans quelques années ils ne pourraient plus cultiver leurs fèves et les aller vendre au marché. Un jour qu'ils sarclaient leur champ de fèves pour ôter les mauvaises herbes, la vieille découvrit dans un coin, sous les touffes les plus drues, un petit paquet fort bien troussé qui contenait un superbe garçon de huit à dix mois, comme il paraissait à son air, mais qui avait bien deux ans pour la raison, car il était déjà sevré. Tant il y a qu'il ne fit point de façons pour accepter des fèves bouillies qu'il porta aussitôt à sa bouche d'une manière fort délicate. » (Extrait)
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Librivox: Penrod by Tarkington, BoothJoin Now to Follow
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. (Summary by Jonathan)
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Librivox: Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective, The by Leblanc, MauriceJoin Now to Follow
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes. If in the last story of "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar" Sherlock Holmes arrives too late (the name was at a later date changed to Herlock Sholmes in reply to complaints and threats by Conan Doyle regarding copyrights), in the two stories that compose "The Blonde Lady" these two great intellects are bound in opposite directions. Where one chooses to abide to the law, the other uses his power and wits to crime - and who is going to win? These two stories appeared in chapters and as separate pieces in the magazine Je Sais Tout , during the years of 1906 and 1907, and were published together as a book first in 1908, being the second of the books where Arsène Lupin, the kind-hearted and humorous thief, is the main character. (Summary by Leni)
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Librivox: Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by Wood, Louis AubreyJoin Now to Follow
'Thayendanegea!' The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name of the Mohawks meaning two sticks of wood bound together, a sign of strength; and the woman hoped that her tiny child might one day be a man of valour among the Mohawks. Could she have but known it, her desire was to be more than realized, for in vigour of mind and body he was destined to surpass all the offspring of his race. Joseph Brant was his English name and this is his story. Summary from chapter one.
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Librivox: Old-Fashioned Girl, An (version 2) by Alcott, Louisa MayJoin Now to Follow
Country-girl Polly Milton visits her fashionable cousins in the city, who make fun of her old-fashioned values. Will Polly adapt to city life? A coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1870. (Summary by Gesine)
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Librivox: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (version 3) by Twain, MarkJoin Now to Follow
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature. The book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. Although the Southern society it satirized was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book immediately became controversial, and has remained so to this day.(Summary from Wikipedia)
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Librivox: Жития Святых, т. 06 - февруарий (Zhitiia Sviatykh, v. 06 - February) by Dimitriĭ, Saint Metropolitan of RostovJoin Now to Follow
Жития и похвалы святых подобятся светлостию звездам: якоже бо звезды положением на небеси утвержденны суть, всю же поднебесную просвещают, тыяжде и от Индиан зрятся, ни сокрываются от скифов, землю озаряют, и морю светят, и плавающих корабли управляют: ихже имен аще и не вемы множества ради, обаче светлей доброте их чудимся. Сице и светлость святых, аще и затворены суть мощи их во гробех, но силы их в поднебесней земными пределы не суть определенны: чудимся тех житию, и удивляемся славе, еюже Бог угодившыя Ему прославляет. [St. Symeon Metaphrastes on the Lives of the Saints, 10th century A. D. ENGLISH TRANSLATION: The lives and the eulogies of the Saints resemble, by their luminosity, the stars: for as the stars, firmly studded in the firmament as they are, illume the entire universe, and the same stars are beheld by the Indians, and are not hid from the Scythians, and shed their radiance over the earth and the seas, and show the way to the ships: and even if we know not their names for their multitude’s sake, we as yet admire their brilliant loveliness. So, too, doeth the brilliance of the Saints, even when their relics are shut under a tombstone, yet their miracles in the entire universe are not bound by earthly confines: we admire their lives and wonder at the glory wherewith God glorifieth those who have pleased Him. This succinct description is found as introduction to each of the 12 volumes of the Church Slavonic Lives.]
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Librivox: Flood-Tide Of Flowers by Van Dyke, HenryJoin Now to Follow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Flood-Tide Of Flowers by Henry Van Dyke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 5th, 2009.
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Librivox: Horla, Der by Maupassant, Guy deJoin Now to Follow
Seltsame Dinge geschehen um den Ich-Erzähler, der seine Gedanken und Gefühle seinem Tagebuch anvertraut. Woher kommen die schrecklichen Albträume und wer trinkt nachts seine Wasserflasche leer? Ist er ein Schlafwandler, wird er langsam wahnsinnig oder ist es der Horla? Horla von franz. "hors de la" = "außerhalb". (Summary by Hokuspokus)
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