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    25/07/2024

    Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 005

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    Chapter: 19 | Listen: 2

    This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions: 01 Japanese – Shisyuu by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1925] – Key words: prose, fiction, poetries 02 Japanese – Utsukushii Inu by Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951) [1947] – Key words: prose, fiction, dog 03 Japanese – Konoteni kagiruyo by Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) [1937] – Key words: prose, fiction, dream 04 Japanese – Ookina Komorigasa by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) [1926] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, umbrella 05 Polish – O kaznodziei by Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) [1883] – Key words: poetry, fraszka, ksiądz, pieniądze 06 Japanese – Niwa by Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) [1946] – Key words: prose, essay, garden 07 Japanese – Kakehino Hanashi by Kajii Motojiro (1901-1932) [1928] – Key words: prose, fiction, water 08 Japanese – Iseini taisuru kankakuwo senrenseyo by Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939) [1935] – Key words: prose, women 09 Polish – Król chory i lisy by Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) translated by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1893] – Key words: fable, bajka, lisy, lew, król 10 Japanese – Kinno Kubikazari by Ono Hiroshi (1894-1933) [1928] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, golden necklace 11 Japanese – Kusuriyubino magari by Tanaka Koutarou (1880-1941) [1934] – Key words: prose, doctor, ring finger 12 Japanese – Sorano bi by Miyamoto Yuriko (1899-1951) [1926] – Key words: prose, sky 13 German – Der Sturm auf dem Tyrrhener Meer by Vergil (70 BC – 19 […]

    25/07/2024

    Address to Free Colored Americans

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    Chapter: 6 | Listen: 4

    The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child. One outcome of this important event was a statement of the organization’s role in the abolitionist movement as expressed in AN ADDRESS TO FREE COLORED AMERICANS, which begins: “The sympathy we feel for our oppressed fellow-citizens who are enslaved in these United States, has called us together, to devise by mutual conference the best means for bringing our guilty country to a sense of her transgressions; and to implore the God of the oppressed to guide and bless our labors on behalf of our “countrymen in chains.” This significant event was a precursor to the growing women’s rights movement of the time and to greater female involvement in other political reform movements.     [chương_files]  

    25/07/2024

    Essays and Literary Studies

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    Chapter: 9 | Listen: 2

    A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock.     [chương_files]  

    25/07/2024

    Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 031

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    Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

    Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the Faust Legend, Stephen Crane, Sundials and the Statue of Liberty.     [chương_files]  

    25/07/2024

    Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

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    Chapter: 18 | Listen: 1

    Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita Loos; the Lincoln highway, joys of gardening, goldfish, skunk raising, and the cultivation of tobacco. “Earthquakes” was co-authored by Louis Pakiser.     [chương_files]  

    25/07/2024

    Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 004

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    Chapter: 20 | Listen:

    This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions: 01 Japanese – Natto Gassen by Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948) [1919] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, fermented soybeans 02 Japanese – Shikino e by Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) [1911] – Key words: prose, non-fiction, painting 03 Japanese – Carmen by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1926] – Key words: prose, fiction, Tokyo, theater 04 Japanese – Sanbikino Kogumasan by Murayama Kazuko (1903-1946) [1931] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, bears 05 Japanese – Nakunatta Ningyo by Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) [1918] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, doll 06 Polish – Latarnik by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) [1881] – Key words: prose, opowiadanie, tęsknota, emigracja 07 French – Suicides by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) [1883] – Key words: prose, fiction, suicide, suicides, letter, lettre 08 Polish – Świtezianka by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1899] – Key words: ballad, legend, love, betrayal, water nymph, temptation 09 Japanese – Abuno Orei by Yumeno Kyusaku (1889-1936) [1925] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, horsefly 10 Japanese – Amedama by Niimi Nankichi (1913-1943) [1933] – Key words: prose, candy, children, mother, samurai 11 Japanese – Shoshuno ichinichi by Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) [1912] – Key words: prose, non-fiction, early autumn 12 Polish – Tchórz na wyborach by Jean de la Fontaine(1621-1695) translated by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1893] – Key words: fable, bajka, zwierzęta, wybory 13 Japanese – Yuubinkyoku by Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) […]

    25/07/2024

    Oxford Book of American Essays

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    Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

    Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of Horace. It seems to be an attempt to show off the Americans as writers.     [chương_files]  

    25/07/2024

    Spirit of American Literature

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    Chapter: 22 | Listen: 1

    THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century and assessing the uniquely American characteristics of their growing body of work. Excerpted from the author’s preface: “In this book something is said about most, if not quite all, of the emergent figures in American literature; an attempt is made to survey the four corners of the national library and to give an impression of its shape and size. If its purpose is approximately realized, this volume will be found to be a little nearer to a collection of appreciative essays than to a formal history or bibliographic manual. …To be sure, the historian avowedly and properly puts emphasis on writers who are dead in the flesh, and finishes off his contemporaries briefly because they are not yet established and are too numerous to mention. But it seems well, in books about literature, not to discuss writers admittedly dead in the spirit, whose names persist by the inertia of reputation…All that I wish to plead is that a living lion is better than a dead mouse…If, as I believe, accepted handbooks and histories of American literature pay too much attention to doubly dead worthies, whose books are not interesting, and miss or but timidly acknowledge contemporary excellence, there is a way of accounting for it.”     [chương_files]  

    25/07/2024

    Verteidigung des Unsinns, der Demut, des Schundromans und anderer mißachteter Dinge

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    Chapter: 17 | Listen: 4

    Verschiedene Essays, in denen Dinge wie Schundromane, Planeten, Posse, Demut und unüberlegte Gelübde verteidigt werden. Ein hochvergnügliches Augenzwinkern ist unüberseh- bzw. unüberhörbar. ( Zusammenfassung von Bernd Ungerer)     [chương_files]  

    24/07/2024

    Astounding Stories 07, July 1930

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    Chapter: 23 | Listen: 2

    Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine     [chương_files]