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Librivox: Fables de La Fontaine, livre 01 by La Fontaine, Jean deJoin Now to Follow
Voici le premier des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et ont été enregistrées par des lecteurs de divers horizons. This is the first book from a collection of 12. The fables were written and first published in the 17th century. They portray humans' behaviour in the society.
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Librivox: Don Juan, Canto 1 by Byron, George Gordon, LordJoin Now to Follow
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron's self-imposed exile from England appeared, anonymously, in July 1819 and were greeted with scandal, condemnation, admiration and hilarity. Modern critics generally consider the self-proclamed 'epic', which remained incomplete at Byron's death, to be his masterpiece. (Summary by Peter Gallagher).
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Librivox: Awakening, The by Chopin, KateJoin Now to Follow
Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. To give you an idea of the subject matter, Project Gutenburg catalogues The Awakening under "Adultery -- Fiction -- Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions. (Summary by Denny Sayers)
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Librivox: Chamber Music by Joyce, JamesJoin Now to Follow
Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). Although the poems did not sell well, they received some critical acclaim. Ezra Pound admired the "delicate temperament" of these early poems, while Yeats described "I hear an army charging upon the land" as "a technical and emotional masterpiece". In 1909, Joyce wrote to his wife, "When I wrote [Chamber Music], I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me." Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman
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Librivox: Copyright Question, The by Morang, GeorgeJoin Now to Follow
This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding copyrights.
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Librivox: Baby's Own Aesop by Crane, WalterJoin Now to Follow
"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who furnished the draft of the book's poems for Crane to edit. "Baby's Own Aesop" is available in a beautiful facsimile edition of colored engravings from the International Children's Digital Library, with which your child can read along while listening to the recording. (Summary by Denny Sayers)
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Librivox: Railway Children, The by Nesbit, E. (Edith)Join Now to Follow
Edith Nesbit’s classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways. (Summary by Karen Savage)
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Librivox: Spring and Fall by Hopkins, Gerard ManleyJoin Now to Follow
LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of Spring and Fall , by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 12th, 2006.
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Librivox: Oliver Twist by Dickens, CharlesJoin Now to Follow
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. The novel is full of sarcasm and dark humour, even as it treats its serious subject, revealing the hypocrisies of the time. It has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations, and the basis for a highly successful British musical, Oliver!. (Summary from wikipedia)
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Librivox: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Stockton, Frank R.Join Now to Follow
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a very readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to Spanish colonialism. It also features a very cool website version of Buccaneers & Pirates that has an antique map of the Caribbean which is a nice reference for readers and listeners for islands' names, ports, hideaways, buried treasure, and such like. If you liked Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island , you'd best sign on board for this voyage! (Summary by Denny Sayers)
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