18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 208
This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020. [chương_files]
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18/07/2024
Coleção de Autoras em Português
A literatura lusófona, do século XVII ao século XX, vem aqui representada por algumas de suas maiores escritoras. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Aemilia Lanyer’s 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all women), elegant praises for her female patrons, a catalogue of virtuous women of the ancient world, and closes with the first “country house” poem written by a woman in English. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
The Early History of the Airplane
The Brothers Orville (1871 – 1948) and Wilbur (1867 – 1912) Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot to steer the aircraft, which made fixed wing powered flight possible. The Early History of the Airplane consists of three short essays about the beginnings of human flight. The second essay retells the first flight: “This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.” (Introduction by Availle) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Psalms and Odes of Solomon
One of the Pseudepigrapha, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) that are not part of any scriptural canon (they are, however, found in copies of the Peshitta). The Psalms of Solomon were referenced in Early Christian writings, but lost to modern scholars until a Greek manuscript was rediscovered in the 17th century. Politically, the Psalms of Solomon are anti-Maccabee, and some psalms in the collection show a clear awareness of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem under Pompey in 63 BCE, metaphorically treating him as a dragon who had been sent by God to punish the Maccabees. The Odes of Solomon is a collection of 42 odes attributed to Solomon. Various scholars have dated the composition of these religious poems to anywhere in the range of the first three centuries AD. The original language of the Odes is thought to have been either Greek or Syriac, and to be generally Christian in background. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 082
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 180
This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 078
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of April 2009. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Damn! A Book of Calumny
Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the “Sage of Baltimore”, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the “Monkey” trial.” [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Essays, Second Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. [chương_files]