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Don Juan, Canto 5

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Poetry
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 3

Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smuggled into the Sultan’s harem for a steamy assignation. Unbelievably, Byron’s publisher almost baulked at this feast of allusive irony, blasphemy (mild), calumny, scorn, lesse-majeste, cross-dressing, bestiality, assassination, circumcision and dwarf-tossing. This was the last Canto published by the stuffy John Murray (who had, however, made a tidy fortune on the earlier parts of the Epic). Although Byron’s mood starts, after this, to grow darker and his bitterness at English hypocrisy to grow sharper, his discursive comedy and precise and intriguing rhyme is rarely better than in Canto V. (Summary by Peter Gallagher) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 077

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Poetry
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 1

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

Short Poetry Collection 086

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Poetry
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of February 2010. [chương_files]

Book of Old English Ballads

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 1

In this selection… the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse which is still, it is to be feared, unfamiliar to a large number of those to whom it would bring refreshment and delight. (Summary from introduction) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 073

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 5

This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008. [chương_files]

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]