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Light Princess, The by MACDONALD, George show

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<p>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)</p>

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Épigramme by MAYNARD,  François show

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LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of a poem in French: Épigramme, by François Maynard. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 9th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02), The by MACAULAY, Thomas Babington show

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<p>This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II.<br><br>In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward the Roundheads, Army and, of course the Puritans. An examination of the character of Charles II. We see Charles attempting to recruit assistance from France so he can attain absolute monarchy and so emulate Lewis the Fourteenth, the French Sun King. <br>(Summary by Jim Mowatt)</p>

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Leonce und Lena by BüCHNER, Georg show

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<p>Das 1895 uraufgeführte Lustspiel Leonce und Lena von Georg Büchner setzt sich an Hand der Liebesgeschichte der Königskinder Leonce und Lena sartirisch mit Sinn und Rolle des Einzelnen im gesellschaftlichen Gefüge auseinander. Sowohl dem gelangweilten, sinnsuchenden Prinz Leonce, als auch der depressiv, erduldenden Prinzessin Lena, ist die zwischen ihnen arrangierte Hochzeit unerträglich. Unabhängig von einander fliehen sie nach Italien und stellen bei einem zufälligen Treffen, ohne Kenntnis der jeweils anderen Identität, fest, dass sie füreinander bestimmt sind. Als Automaten verkleidet lassen sie sich schlieβlich an Stelle des vermeintlich abwesenden Brautpaars bei Leonce und Lenas Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten trauen und erkennen erst hinterher die schicksalhafte Fügung. (Zusammenfassung von Franziska)</p> <b>Die Rollen wurden gelesen von: </b><br><i>König Peter vom Reiche Popo</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1138">Karsten Roeseler</a><br><i>Prinz Leonce vom Reiche Popo</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/145">Carsten Thiel</a><br><i>Prinzessin Lena vom Reiche Pipi</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1139">Franziska Glaβmeier</a><br><i>Valerio</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1140">Lars Kasper</a><br><i>Die Gouvernante</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1141">Kirstin Strokorb</a><br><i>Der Hofmeister</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1142">Jakob Bierwagen</a><br><i>Der Ceremonienmeister</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1143">Sabrina Kombrink</a><br><i>Der Präsident des Staatsraths</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1142">Jakob Bierwagen</a><br><i>Der Hofprediger</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1143">Sabrina Kombrink</a><br><i>Der Landrath</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1144">Thorsten Trieschmann</a><br><i>Der Schulmeister</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1145">Andre Schlipp</a><br><i>Rosetta</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1143">Sabrina Kombrink</a><br><i>Erster Kammerdiener</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1144">Thorsten Trieschmann</a><br><i>Zweiter Kammerdiener</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1145">Andre Schlipp</a><br><i>Erster Bedienter</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1146">Anne Tomczak</a><br><i>Zweiter Bedienter</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1147">Christiane Strokorb</a><br><i>Regieanweisungen</i> – <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1148">Daniel Rettstadt</a><br><br>

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Calendar of Sonnets, A by JACKSON, Helen Hunt show

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Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet for each month of the year, devoted simply and beautifully to the shifting wonder of nature through the seasons. (Summary by Laura Fox)

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Warden, The by TROLLOPE, Anthony show

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<p> Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and the clerical (The Barsetshire Chronicles) are the best known. This book is the first of the Barsetshire series and was also Trollope’s first really successful novel. <br><br>In the mid nineteenth century there were a number of financial scandals in the Church of England including those of Rochester, where the endowments which should have supported the King’s School Canterbury had been diverted to the Dean and Chapter; and of the hospital of St Cross at Winchester where the Rev. Francis North, later the Earl of Guildford, had been appointed to the mastership of the hospital by his father the bishop. The revenues of the hospital were very considerable, the work involved minimal. The scandal soon broke. <br><br>Trollope based ‘The Warden’ on the St Cross case, but in the novel the Warden is a kindly, devoted, priest, beloved by all that knew him and is racked by fear that he is accepting money to which he is not entitled. His antagonist is his prospective son-in-law John Bold and his (somewhat unwelcome) ally is one of Trollope’s strongest characters, the Archdeacon of Barchester, Dr. Theophilus Grantly. (summary by Andy Minter) </p>

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Among the Pond People by PIERSON, Clara Dillingham show

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Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. (Summary by Jill Engle)<p></p>

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Answer to a Child's Question by COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor show

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)<p></p>

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Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by BAUM, L. Frank show

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Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation is a juvenile novel for girls, written by L. Frank Baum. It is the seventh in the ten volumes in the Aunt Jane's Nieces series, and carries forward the continuing story of the three cousins Lousie Merrick Weldon, Patsy Doyle, and Elizabeth De Graf. Like all the books in the series, it was issued under Baum's "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

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Songs of Innocence and Experience by BLAKE, William show

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<p> William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was impossible without experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems either written from the perspective of children or written about them. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience, with quite a different perspective of the world. The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the despair found in Songs of Experience. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy. He did not, however, believe that children should be kept from becoming experienced entirely. In truth, he believed that children should indeed become experienced but through their own discoveries, which is reflected in a number of these poems. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman)</p>

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