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19/07/2024
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Miscellaneous Pieces

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John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, arguably the most famous published Christian allegory. In the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August. Bunyan became a popular preacher as well as a prolific author, though most of his works consist of expanded sermons. In theology he was a Puritan, but there was nothing gloomy about him. The portrait his friend Robert White drew, which has often been reproduced, shows the attractiveness of his true character.     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 090

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

19/07/2024
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It’s a Good Old World

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In this collection of essays, Bruce Barton, considered to be among the most influential advertising men of the 20th century, uses history, religion and current events of the 1920s to teach common sense ideals. From Jesus to Beethoven to Napoleon to Abraham Lincoln, Barton uses stories of great individuals to encourage the reader to make the most of life and at the same time to build strong character traits.     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 094

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This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of January 2011.     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 103

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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2011.     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3

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2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible of Dickens’ short works which had not previously been recorded for LibriVox. (Summary by Ruth Golding)     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Lyrical Ballads (1798)

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Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (Additionally, though only the two writers are credited for the works, William’s sister Dorothy Wordsworth’s diary which held powerful descriptions of everyday surroundings influenced William’s poetry immensely.) (Summary by Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Absalom and Achitophel

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John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by King David (2 Samuel 14-18) to mirror that faced by Charles II. Each monarch had a son whom a high-ranking minister attempted to use against him. James Scott, first Duke of Monmouth, Charles II’s illegitimate son, was detected planning a rebellion late in 1681, supposedly instigated by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who was tried for high treason, and it is believed that Dryden wrote the poem in an effort to sway the jury in his trial. The fates of both Absalom (Monmouth) and Achitophel (Shaftesbury) are left unspecified at the end of the poem (Monmouth did rebel in 1685, after his father’s death, and was executed, and Shaftesbury was acquitted), but we are left to surmise that their fates would resemble those of their Biblical counterparts: Absalom was killed against David’s instructions and Achitophel hanged himself. The poem can be enjoyed without any special knowledge of either the Bible or seventeenth-century English history, but it is useful to understand why Monmouth (AKA Absalom) was such a useful tool to use against his father: Charles had many illegitimate offspring, but his wife was barren, so at his death the crown would pass (did pass) to his brother, James, who was Catholic, but Monmouth was Protestant as well as well-beloved by both the king and the people. England had good reason to dread a return of officially enforced Catholicism. The […]

19/07/2024
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Alonso Fitz and Other Stories

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A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature      The Grateful Poodle      The Benevolent Author      The Grateful Husband Punch, Brothers, Punch The Great Revolution In Pitcairn The Canvasser’s Tale An Encounter With An Interviewer Paris Notes Legend Of Sagenfeld, In Germany Speech On The Babies Speech On The Weather Concerning The American Language Rogers     [chương_files]  

19/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 128

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This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2014.     [chương_files]