17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 066
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 066: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, selected and read by Librivox volunteers. [chương_files]
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17/07/2024
The Appetite of Tyranny
“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people’s weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk; it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, and perished arguing about the expense of the fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the thing. The mere facts of the story about the present European conflagration are quite as easy to tell.” [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 4)
Shakespeare’s sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous “young man” and the alluring yet dangerously sexual “dark lady.” (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 055
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 055: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Told after Supper
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when… But no, I won’t spoil the fun. This is a little gem: Jerome at his tongue-in-cheek best. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 069
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 069: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 129
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 050
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 050: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 067
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 067: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 031
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 031: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. [chương_files]