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    12/07/2024
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    Forgotten Man and Other Essays

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    Chapter: 43 | Listen: 1

    Sumner’s popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold standard. He also had a long term influence over modern American conservatism. This is the final collection of his essays and is edited by Albert Galloway Keller. It concludes with The Forgotten Man where Sumner argued that, in his day, politics was being subverted by those proposing a “measure of relief for the evils which have caught public attention. (Summary by Michele Eaton )     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

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    Chapter: 15 | Listen: 2

    “Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know.” In this volume of essays, more than in any other single work, we get to see clearly just what Joseph Conrad’s years working on sail-powered ships meant to him — and they certainly meant a great deal to him, for all Conrad’s subsequent fretting that he might be typed as “only” a writer of the sea. This collection is particularly renowned for the lengthy episode titled “The Tremolino”, where Conrad gives us, in the character of the real-world Dominic, the model of his fictional Nostromo, as well as an account of personalities and gun-running activities he would later depict in “The Arrow of Gold”. (Summary by Peter Dann)     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 058

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    Chapter: 10 | Listen: 3

    Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. – Summary by schrm     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Honour of the Gout

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    This droll and ‘enflammatory’ pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of that aflicktion, and upon the vain and mischievous cheats who affeckt to cure it. The gauntlet here so-toss’d by Philander Misaurus was later pick’d up by surgeon John Marten in his rejoinder, titled by the name–”The Dishonour of the Gout”. Which seeketh to shew all minds swayed by Philander’s prettie words that—indubitably—Gout is misfortune. – Summary by Alasdair (Alister)     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Ukraine

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    Chapter: 10 | Listen: 7

    “We are not the same nation with Russian people,” the statement which all Ukrainians wish to convey to the whole world for centuries. The striving for freedom and independence is what these people shed much of their blood on Ukrainian lands for. “The Ukraine” by Bedwin Sands (George Raffalovich) describes Ukrainian problem, which exacerbated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, by looking back at the Ukrainian history, the development of Ukrainian literature and its influence, and by considering its relations with Austria and Russia. (Summary by Anastasiia Solokha)     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Fringe of an Art: Appreciations in Music

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    Chapter: 19 | Listen: 3

    A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summary by Mozartjr)     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Representative Men (Version 2)

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    Chapter: 14 | Listen: 2

    Seven Essays: his reasoning why and how great men have always been honored and necessary in our civilization, followed by six chapters dealing with, in order: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare (sic), Napoleon and Goethe. Emerson was an old fashioned “Man of Letters”. He was the head of the mid-19th century School of Transcendentalism. Poetry, essay and book on Philosophy, human rights and religious and social rights. – Summary by William Jones     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Problems of the Playwright

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    Chapter: 33 | Listen: 3

    A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in Stagecraft, and focusing (as one might expect) on the problems of the playwright. (Summary by Andrew Gaunce)     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

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    Chapter: 30 | Listen: 6

    “LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life…” Hugh McGuire, LibriVox’s founder, August 9, 2005 In celebration of LibriVox’s seventeenth anniversary, here is collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words ‘seventeen’ or ‘seventeenth’ or the number ’17.’ Each piece is selected and read by a LibriVox volunteer.     [chương_files]  

    12/07/2024
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    Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092

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    Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

    Calling men the “Bawling Brotherhood,” Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenography and the Typewriter, and Home Hints were other women centric selections from the 20 reader-chosen nonfiction pieces in volume 092. Social and political history figured in many readings: The Birthplace of American Independence (1687); Roman Remains in Great Britain; the Spanish American War; Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade (1788); State of the Union Address (1817); Disunion Sentiment (1794); and Monument to General Sheridan. Climate’s role in human events was recognized in Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations; The Day the Piano Went Up the Hill; and Launching Icebergs. Selections from science and medicine included The Discovery of Radium; Mercury in Treating Venereal Disease; and William James’ lecture on the possibility of Human Immortality. Rounding out the volume are thoughts on Literature and the Stage; some notes on drawing (Of Line and Form); a bit of Mark Twain humor (The Bee); and an biographical essay on W.H.R. Rivers. – Summary by Sue Anderson     [chương_files]