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אסופת מסות ומאמרים Selection of Essays and Articles

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 1

Eliezer Izhak Perlman (1858-1922) signed his articles as E. Ben Yehuda. He was a key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. He regarded Hebrew and Zionism as symbiotic: “The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation and return it to the fatherland,” he wrote. Ben Yehuda wrote essays and articles preaching for the use of Hebrew at schools and at home. His was the first family to do so, but it took more than 20 years before there were 10 more families in Jerusalem who spoke only Hebrew at home. Ben Yehuda was the editor of several Hebrew-language newspapers and became the driving spirit behind the establishment of the Committee of the Hebrew Language, later The Academy of the Hebrew Language, an organization that still exists today. He was also the author of the first modern Hebrew Dictionary coining a large number of new words, many of them in use today. The following is a selection of his articles. [chương_files]

Long Poems Collection 007

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Poetry
Chapter: 15 | Listen:

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 007: a collection of 15 public domain poems greater than 10 minutes in length. Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Jc Guan & TriciaG [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 084

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Poetry
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 3

This is an open collection of poems for the months of November and December 2009. [chương_files]

Farmer’s Bride

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 2

The Farmer’s Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this edition, published in 1921, contains 11 more poems. Mew’s poetry is varied in style and content, but manifests a concern with gender issues throughout. Mew’s life was marked by loneliness and depression, and she eventually committed suicide. Her work earned her the admiration of her peers, including Virginia Woolf, who characterized her as “very good and quite unlike anyone else.” (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]

Declaration of Rights

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 2

On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York. Though New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia did not send delegates, the Assemblies of those missing colonies nonetheless agreed to support the works of the Congress. The meetings were held in Federal Hall in New York, and the delegates assembled on October 2. They spent less than two weeks in discussion and at their final meeting on October 19, 1765 adopted the Declaration of Rights and approved its use in petitions to the King and two letters to Parliament. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances raised thirteen points of colonial protest. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 083

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Poetry
Chapter: 32 | Listen:

This is a collection of poems submitted by LibriVox volunteers for the months of September and October 2009. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 080

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009. [chương_files]

Tremendous Trifles

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
Chapter: 39 | Listen: 7

“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don’t let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or a coloured cloud. I have attempted some such thing in what follows; but anyone else may do it better, if anyone else will only try. ” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [chương_files]

The Riot Act

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 5

The Riot Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1714, the first year of the reign of George I, and came into effect in August 1715. This was a time of widespread social disturbance, as the preamble describes; the Act sought to put an end to this. A group of twelve or more people, “being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled”, would be read a proclamation; they must disperse within an hour, on pain of death. The same fate would befall anyone preventing the reading of the proclamation, or damaging buildings while on a riot. If the law enforcement officers happened to injure or kill a rioter, they were immune from prosecution. The reading of the proclamation, the wording of which is detailed in the Act, was the necessary first step before action could be taken against the rioters. This gave us the phrase “to read the riot act”, to give a stern warning or rebuke. The Act was repealed in Britain in 1973, but had long since fallen into disuse there. A version is still in force in Canada. [chương_files]

Baby’s Songbook

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General, Poetry
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane’s “The Baby’s Opera” and “The Baby’s Bouquet” containing classic nursery rhymes from England, France, and Germany. The songs are sung by LibriVox’s very own Carol Stripling. [chương_files]