Literature Podcasts
Librivox: War and Peace, Book 03: 1805 by Tolstoy, LeoJoin Now to Follow
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Librivox: Short Poetry Collection 054 by VariousJoin Now to Follow
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 054: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
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Librivox: Märchen 4 by Grimm, Jacob & WilhelmJoin Now to Follow
Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene Erzählungen zusammenzutragen. Diese Sammlung ist als die Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm weltbekannt geworden und umfaßt so berühmte Geschichten wie Rapunzel, Hänsel und Gretel, Rumpelstilzchen, Rotkäppchen und viele andere. Diese Märchen wurden später stark editiert und 'beschönt'. Die hier vorliegenden Versionen entsprechen aber stärker den originalen, teils drastischen Fassungen. (Zusammenfassung von Rainer)
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Librivox: Pays des fourrures, Le by Verne, JulesJoin Now to Follow
En 1959, des officiers de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson sont chargés d'aller fonder un fort au nord du 70e parallèle, au-delà du cercle polaire. Le fort est établi sur le Cap Bathurst, qui semble être le lieu parfait. Malheureusement, ce cap n'est pas fait de terre, mais de glace, et lors d'une éruption volcanique, le cap se détache du continent et part à la dérive, emportant tous ses occupants avec lui. Cela se gâte encore plus quand arrive le printemps et que le glaçon commence à fondre...
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Shadow RealmsJoin Now to Follow
Sometime people catch glimpses - an old man's eyes peering out from the trunk of a tree, a monstrous shadow lurking in the corner of your eye that disappears when you turn your head. A trick of your mind? Or another realm separated from our world by a fine fabric. Join us each week as we fall into the Shadow Realms.
By Dream Dragon Press
Mrs. Trimble's Tuck In - Bedtime StoriesJoin Now to Follow
Mrs. Trimble reads relaxing bedtime stories to help you fall asleep. Each season is a different theme of family friendly bedtime stories.
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The Rev Up ReviewJoin Now to Follow
The Rev Up Review podcast features reviews of speculative fiction, comment and chit-chat, as well as original fiction.
By Paul S. Jenkins
Librivox: Road Builders, The by de Cleyre, VoltairineJoin Now to Follow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of The Road Builders, by Voltairine de Cleyre. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 29th, 2008.
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Librivox: Zhetvariat (The Reaper) by Yovkov, YordanJoin Now to Follow
In the tiny village of Lyulyakovo fiercely clash human greed, hate and lust for power. However, the souls of the adversaries are still open to the light of Jesus: the light which transfigures through the miracle of His Icon: who is the Reaper, Who blesses the harvesting of good grains in the souls and uproots the tares of evil from there: this is what the master of the Bulgarian literature, Yordan Yovkov, relates with words of golden wheat and azure skies, taking the reader beyond the passions and mundane dust, through the suffering of the awaken conscience to the final victory of truth and good. (Summary by Euthymius)
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Librivox: Early Kings of Norway by Carlyle, ThomasJoin Now to Follow
"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. The Icelanders, it seems, not only made beautiful letters on their paper or parchment, but were laudably observant and desirous of accuracy; and have left us such a collection of narratives (Sagas, literally "Says") as, for quantity and quality, is unexampled among rude nations. Snorro Sturleson's History of the Norse Kings is built out of these old Sagas; and has in it a great deal of poetic fire,. . . and deserves to be reckoned among the great history-books of the world. It is from these sources that the following rough notes of the early Norway Kings are hastily thrown together." (Excerpted from Thomas Carlyle's preface by Karen Merline)
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