21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 132
This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014. [chương_files]
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21/07/2024
Friar Anselmo, and Other Poems
This is a collection of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 170
This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2017. It includes a longer poem, Parliament of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. Introduction by the reader: This is one of the best-loved classics of Sufi literature. In his own land, Attar is better known than Rumi or Hafiz. Translation is by Edward Fitzgerald, who 160 years ago brought the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam to English-speaking audiences. Lacking governance and beginning to descend into anarchy, the birds come together to agree on leadership. The brilliant and charismatic Tajidar the Wise rises to speak, and proposes that the birds undertake a long and treacherous pilgrimage to seek salvation and transfiguration from Simorgh, the Holy Presence. Each of the birds presents his special reasons for declining the trip, which Tajidar rebuts with a relevant moral tale. The trip will be arduous, and will require each bird to leave behind not just his possessions but his family, his pride, his attachments. But the reward–if Simorgh’s grace be granted–will be freedom and knowledge of self and the world. All the birds set out and the vast majority perish along the way. For the thirty that reach their appointment with destiny, there is a surprise in store. Hint: “Simorgh” in Persian can be read to mean “30 birds”. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 127
This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2013. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 135
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2014. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
The Wound Dresser
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman’s literary executors. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
热风 (Hot Wind)
《热风》是鲁迅的第一本杂文集，收录了41篇他于1918－1924年间发表的短文。这些文章长短不一，题材广泛，灵活多变，风格辛辣尖锐，大大发展重塑了杂文这一文学体裁，在新文化运动中起了重要作用。 This is the first collection of short essays/commentaries by Lu Xun. It contains 41 articles he published between 1918-1924. Sharp, poignant, varying vastly on their topic, length, and style, these articles redefined the genre of “essay” in Chinese literature, as well as played an important part in the new cultural movement. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Poems of Power
This is a volume in a series of books of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the theme is “Power”. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Child’s Garden of Verses (version 2)
A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems – some quite short – including the cherished classics “The Lamplighter,” “The Land of Counterpane,” “Bed in Summer,” “My Shadow” and “The Swing.” (Summary by Wikipedia and Sweet Pea) [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 147
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2015. [chương_files]