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    26/07/2024

    Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 1

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    Chapter: 11 | Listen: 3

    Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) “Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia.” 2.) “The Austrian Edison keeping school again” 3.) “The Canvasser’s tale.” 4.) “The Czar’s Soliloquy.” 5.) “English as She is Taught.” 6.) “Grasses in the South.” 7.) “Hawaii.” 8.) “A Helpless Situation.” 9.) “How I Escaped being Killed in a Duel.” 10.) “Important to Whom it may Concern.” 11.) “The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again” 12.) “Jim’s Investments, and King Sollermun.”     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Multilingual Short Works Collection 012

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    Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

    This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. 01 Russian – Послушайте! (Poslushayte!) (poetry, non-fiction, звезда, послушайте, Mаяковский, простое как мычание, кричу кирпичу) 02 Russian – Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека (Noch’, ulitsa, fonar’, apteka) (poetry, non-fiction, пляски смерти, Блок) 03 Russian – Ничего не понимают. (Nichego ne ponimayut.) (poetry, non-fiction, причешите, уши, Mаяковский, простое как мычание, кричу кирпичу) 04 Finnish – Kevätkylmät (prose) 05 Finnish – Kevät ja kesä (prose) 06 Polish – Biały wyrak (kominiarz, legenda, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, potwór) 07 French – Jeannot et Colin (prose, fiction , conte philosophique, conte moral, conte satirique, critique sociale, XVIIIème siècle, siècle des Lumières) 08 Polish – Zemsta żywiołaków (pożar, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, demon) 09 Polish – Czerwona Magda (pożar, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, demon) 10 Polish – Zez (groza, horror, opowiadanie, opętanie) 11 Russian – Муравей и голубка (Muravey i Golubka) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой) 12 Russian – Черепаха и Орел (Cherepaha i Orel) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой) 13 Russian – Два товарища (Dva Tovarisha) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой) 14 Russian – Хорек (Horek) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой) 15 Spanish – Lo fatal (poetry, modernism, modernismo, poesía, Nicaragua) 16 Spanish – Si ves un monte de espumas (poetry, poesía, Cuba, Versos sencillos) 17 Russian – Альбом (Albom) (prose, Chekhov, Чехов, рассказы, юмор) 18 Russian – Авиатор (Aviator) […]

    26/07/2024

    1891 Collection

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    Chapter: 10 | Listen: 3

    A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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    Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

    A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor, philosophy, nature and baseball.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Negro Problem

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    Chapter: 7 | Listen: 3

    This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as “racial uplift ideology.” These and other similar narratives of the time were a reaction to the gradual erosion of the African-American’s civil rights across the United States that began during Reconstruction.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

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    Chapter: 18 | Listen: 1

    Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures–Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers–Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers–Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders–Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents–the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history–the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures–the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper’s tips for watermelons and cantaloupes.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

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    Chapter: 18 | Listen: 1

    Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women’s rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky’s blue-grass region, and wintry weather.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Collected Prose

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    Chapter: 22 | Listen: 1

    Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story), short sketches, a dialogue, and several critical studies.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 046

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    Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

    Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. Das Faß Amontillado übersetzt von Gisela Etzel Vor der Galavorstellung übersetzt von Franz Weil Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.     [chương_files]  

    26/07/2024

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

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    Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

    Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and a deep religious faith. His prose is famous for its Baroque complexity and its frequent eloquence. Sir Thomas endowed English with numerous quotations and was a notable coiner of words, many of which are still in common use.     [chương_files]