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31/07/2024
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Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works

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Chapter: 11 | Listen: 2

This book draws together some of Jane Austen’s earliest literary efforts. It includes “Love & Freindship” and “Lesley Castle” both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her wonderful “History of England” and a “Collection of Letters” and lastly a chapter containing “Scraps”. In these offerings, we may see the beginnings of Miss Austen’s literary style. We may also discern traces of characters that we encounter in her later works. G. K. Chesterton in his preface, for example, says of a passage in Love and Freindship; “… is there not the foreshadowing of another and more famous father; and do we not hear for a moment, in the rustic cottage by the Uske, the unmistakable voice of Mr. Bennet?” These works are certainly worth exploring for their own sakes and not simply as historical relics. – Summary by Noel Badrian     [chương_files]  

30/07/2024
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Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

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Chapter: 18 | Listen: 2

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her juvenilia, including the epistolary novels Love and Freindship, Lesley Castle, and Lady Susan, as well as her comic History of England and some shorter pieces. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)     [chương_files]  

30/07/2024
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Dreams Collection 2 – Stories and Poems

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Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry)     [chương_files]  

30/07/2024
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Dreams Collection 1 – Stories and Poems

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This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry)     [chương_files]  

30/07/2024
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Good Dog Book

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Chapter: 17 | Listen: 1

A collection of adult stories and poems – sad, humorous, and adventurous – about Man’s Best Friend. NOTE: Most of these selections contain violence that will be objectionable to some listeners. – Summary by TriciaG     [chương_files]  

29/07/2024
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Contos para Velhos

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Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac foi um jornalista e poeta brasileiro, membro fundador da Academia Brasileira de Letras. Criou a cadeira 15, cujo patrono é Gonçalves Dias. Sua obra compreende além de poemas, textos publicitários, crônicas, livros escolares e poesias satíricas. Foi considerado na sua época, o “Príncipe dos Poetas Brasileiros”. Juntamente com Alberto de Oliveira e Raimundo Correia, foi a maior liderança e expressão do Parnasianismo no Brasil, constituindo a chamada Tríade Parnasiana. A publicação de Poesias, em 1888 rendeu-lhe a consagração. “Contos para Velhos” é uma coletânea de poemas e pequenas histórias de tema adulto, publicada sob o pseudônimo “Bob”.(Sumário escrito por Vicente)     [chương_files]  

27/07/2024

LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection

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For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year. This year is no exception.Readers have contributed 88 recordings in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish and Yiddish, and this feast of fiction, poetry, essays, articles and musical items ranges from lectures to love letters, science to songs, travel to taxes, and politics to pirates, spiced with a dash of humour.It has, as always, been enormous fun for the readers and singers, and we hope that you, the listener, will gain just as much enjoyment as we have had producing it. (Introduction by Ruth Golding) Some additional notes: Section 5, Extract from The Eight-oared Victors, Chapter 35, was written by Howard Garis under his pseudonym Lester Chadwick. Section 37, Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII also includes letters to Henry from Anne Boleyn (1501-1536). Section 53, Letters I to VIII of Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the 18th Century was edited by Emily Fanny Dorothy Osborn McDonnell (1851-1925). Section 54 Eight Little Letters Make Three Little Words: Words by Bert Kalmar (1884-1947); Music by Ted Snyder (1881-1965). Section 55, Koenig Heinrich der Achte – Prologue was translated into the German by Wolf Graf Baudissin (1789-1878). Section 65, The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup was translated into English by Shigeyoshi Obata. Section 77, In The Year 2889 was jointly written by Jules Verne (1828-1905) and Michel Verne (1861-1925). […]

27/07/2024

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 044

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Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier. Das ovale Porträt übersetzt von Theodor Etzel (1873-1930) Die Nachtigall und die Rose übersetzt von Wilhelm Cremer (1874-1932) [Begegnung mit Farinelli] übersetz von Christoph Daniel Ebeling (1741-1817)     [chương_files]  

27/07/2024

LibriVox 10th Anniversary Collection

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Chapter: 100 | Listen: 5

This year is the 10th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox and to celebrate, readers have found and recorded 100 items with a connection to the number ten… … dix… zehn… diez…dez… десять… There are short stories, poems, excerpts from books, bible readings and non-fiction articles.The items are mostly in English, but this year we have eighteen contributions in other languages: French, German, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish..     [chương_files]  

27/07/2024

Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 007

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Chapter: 16 | 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 Japanese – Fushinchuu by Mori Ogai (1862-1922) [1910] – Text. Key words: prose, fiction, constructing, Ginza 02 Russian – Монго by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [] – Text. Key words: poem 03 Spanish – Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [] translated by Alberto Lasplaces (1887-1950) – Text. Key words: Poem 04 Polish – Odsiecz Wiednia by Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874-1941) [1913] – Text. Key words: opowiadanie, humor, bitwa pod Wiedniem, historia 05 French – L’éloge de rien, dédié à personne by Louis Coquelet (1674-1754) [1730] – Text. Key words: Philosophy Satire 06 Portuguese – Língua Portuguesa by Olavo Bilac (1865-1918) [] – Text. Key words: Poetry, Fiction, celebrating the Portuguese Language 07 Portuguese – Velhas Árvores by Olavo Bilac (1865-1918) [] – Text. Key words: Poetry, fiction, nature 08 Spanish – La Confesión de un Crimen, from Spanish Tales for Beginners by Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) [1919] – Text. Key words: Short story 09 Russian – Pervyi Sneg by Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky (1792-1878) [1819] – Text. Key words: Poetry 10 Russian – Rossiya (Россия) by Aleksandr Blok (Александр Блок) (1880-1921) [] – Text. Key words: poem 11-15 Dutch – Sonnets by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647) [1610] – Text Key words: poetry, fiction, love sonnet, Dutch Golden Age 16 Latin – Horace Ode 2: To Augustus (from Odes and Epodes) by Quintus Horatius […]