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Librivox: Aquis submersus by Storm, TheodorJoin Now to Follow
Das rätselhafte Porträt eines toten Knaben und die Aufzeichnungen des Malers Johannes aus dem 17. Jahrhundert führen den Erzähler der Rahmengeschichte auf die Spuren einer unglücklichen Liebe und zur allmählichen Enthüllung des Schicksals des gemalten Kindes.(Summary by Al-Kadi)
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Librivox: Sammlung deutscher Gedichte 005 by VariousJoin Now to Follow
Eine Sammlung 10 deutscher Gedichte für LibriVox.
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Librivox: Land God Forgot, The by Service, Robert W.Join Now to Follow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Land God Forgot by Robert Service. This was the weekly poetry project for January 25th, 2009.
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Librivox: Trail of the Hawk, The: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, SinclairJoin Now to Follow
Narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Mike the Auctioneer, this early novel by Sinclair Lewis (his third) is said to be autobiographical. The protagnatist, Carl Ericson, born in 1855 becomes whiteness to a period of great technological and social change in America. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)
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Librivox: Tremendous Trifles by Chesterton, G. K.Join Now to Follow
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or a coloured cloud. I have attempted some such thing in what follows; but anyone else may do it better, if anyone else will only try. ” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
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Librivox: Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream by Bangs, John KendrickJoin Now to Follow
From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for 0 apiece--" "Mercy!" cried Alice, "Why, that is--that is terrible." "It certainly is," said the March Hare ruefully, it's rotten. Here I've been holding out for ,250 for mine, and these duffers want to go in for a cut rate that will absolutely ruin the business." John Kendrick Bangs takes Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and turns it into a political satire in many ways as fresh, keen and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
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Librivox: Selected Riley Child-Rhymes by Riley, James WhitcombJoin Now to Follow
Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American working-class childhood. (Summary by Val Grimm)
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Librivox: Manxman, The by Caine, HallJoin Now to Follow
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, CH, KBE (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular and at the peak of his success and his novels outsold those of his contemporaries. Many of his novels were also made into films. His novels were primarily romantic in nature, involving the love triangle, but they did also address some of the more serious political and social issues of the day. He was a lover of the Isle of Man and Manx culture and purchased a large house, Greeba Castle, on the island. For a time he was a Member of the House of Keys. In 1916 The Manxman, which was produced by the London Film Company, was filmed on the Isle of Man and when it was released in 1917 it drew huge crowds in Britain and America. The Manxman tells the story of two childhood friends, a poor fisherman, Pete Quilliam, and a lawyer, Philip Christian. Pete is in love with Kate but when her father, Old Caesar refuses to consent to their marriage, Pete sets off for Africa to make his fortune, asking Philip to take care of Kate until he returns... (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Librivox: History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1 by Machiavelli, NiccoloJoin Now to Follow
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to write a history of Florence. Although Machiavelli was reluctant to accept, accepting was at that time his only possible way to regain the good graces of the Medici. Doing the history also provided a way for Machiavelli's views to become the "official" history of Florentine and Italian affairs. Once completed, the work was presented officially to Giulio, now Pope, in May of 1526. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.)
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Librivox: Animal Ghosts by O'Donnell, ElliottJoin Now to Follow
Summary: This is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of ghost sightings by each group of animals, you will hear of hauntings by dogs, cats, birds, jungle animals, etc. (Summary by Allyson Hester)
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