20/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 155
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016. [chương_files]
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20/07/2024
On Something
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that went with a passed time, or we discover after the long night a shaft of light upon the tops of the hills at morning: there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” – Hilaire Belloc [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 119
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013. [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 183
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2018. [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Chimneysmoke
A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. (Summary by Carmen H) [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works – fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by Dickens’ birthday on February 7th 2012. Further volumes were added during the anniversary year. (Summary by Ruth Golding) [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works – fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by Dickens’ birthday on February 7th 2012, and further volumes followed throughout the anniversary year. (Summary by Ruth Golding) [chương_files]
20/07/2024
This, That, and the Other
“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, having achieved it, relax effort nor (a much greater peril) think he has done his work because some Fame now attaches thereto.” — Hilaire Belloc [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 106
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2012. [chương_files]
20/07/2024
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.” What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very much the genial fireside companion: opinionated, but never malicious; a marvellous practitioner of the inclusive monologue. In this collection of nine pieces he discusses the art of appreciating unattractive scenery, traces the complex social life of dogs, and meditates in several essays upon the experience of reading literature and writing it. Perhaps his most personal passages concern death and mortality. Here we meet him at his most undogmatically optimistic, as he affirms a wholesome faith in “the liveableness of Life”. [chương_files]