17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 063
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
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17/07/2024
Real Mother Goose
A heartwarming collection of nursery rhymes that will take you back to your childhood! (Summary by Allyson Hester) [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Forest
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson’s poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his collected works. (Summary by Sheldon Greaves) [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 03
LibriVox readers present the third collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. – William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres – tragedy, comedy, romance, &c – that there is always at least one monologue in each of his plays. Some of these teach a lesson, some simply characterize Shakespeare at his best, some are funny, some sad, but all are very moving. Each monologue will touch everybody differently. Some people will be so moved by a particular monologue that they will want to record it. (Summary by Shurtagal). [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 042
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 042: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 041
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 041: a collection of 20 public-domain poems [chương_files]
16/07/2024
The Jumping Frog
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.” In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English. He then published all three versions under the title “The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil.” [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Boy’s Will
A Boy’s Will is Robert Frost’s first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet. He later became the major American poet of the twentieth century. A Boy’s Will is characteristic of Frost’s ability to conjure photographically clear physical images while ruminating on the complexities of the human condition, its frailties and strengths, and its temporal state, like that of his beloved New England landscape. (Summary by Becky Miller) [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection)
Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardy’s poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and mankind’s long struggle against indifference to human suffering. (Summary from Wikipedia). [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 037
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 037: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]