This is a volume of selected essays by “the great master of reason” Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. [chương_files]
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were written. (Lee Smalley ) [chương_files]
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. [chương_files]
Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Have nearly ready the volume of “Easter Hymns” selected by Miss J.E.C. Chapman, an accomplished lady of Boston, and introduced by a note from her uncle, Rev. Dr. J.I.T. Coolidge. The hymns are excellently chosen, and the volume will be brought out in tasteful style. It will commend itself to the favor of all Episcopalians, and to the devout in all denominations, to whom Easter is not a mere churchly date but a day of deep and glad significance. – The Publisher’s Weekly, March 18th, 1876. [chương_files]
This is a collection of Easter poems by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins. The poems all center around the Easter holiday, in both a religious as well as a more generally festive tone. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the hypocrisy of the law. A vivid ballad which you would not be able to resist. – Summary by Stav Nisser. [chương_files]
This is a collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Kendall. It is the second volume of his collected poems, and contains some of his most widely-known verses, such as “Bell-Birds”, “The Hut by the Black Swamp”, and “The Last of His Tribe”. This collection is also the work on which Kendall’s particular reputation for nature poetry was first based. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot “And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” – Genesis 4:21 Re-imagined from a few bare lines in Genesis, George Eliot’s epic poem describes man’s loss of innocense, the birth of animal husbandry, of industry, commerce, and art. In a surprise ending, she tells of human transcendence. Each of us has a divine gift to offer the world. (Summary by Josh Mitteldorf) [chương_files]
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 […]
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]
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