15/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 026
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 026: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
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15/07/2024
Confidence
This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated, but still believable happy ending. (wikipedia) [chương_files]
15/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 024
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
14/07/2024
Long Poems Collection 001
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 001: a collection of 5 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake) [chương_files]
14/07/2024
White Rose of Weary Leaf
Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry James, W. Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde and Ezra Pound. In White Rose of Weary Leaf (often considered her best work), principal character, Amy, voices many of Hunt’s New Woman theories of sexual, financial, and intellectual autonomy. Amy manages to successfully navigate through society in her roles as secretary and governess, until her reputation as an “Adventuress” leads to a supreme test. – summary by Lisa Reichert [chương_files]
14/07/2024
Wanted – A Pedigree
Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she goes to live with her religious aunt, who mistreats her because of her temper and her origin. Nina has been haunted by a woman in black for her whole life. She meets Dr. Monteith, who is a widower whose wife died in childbirth. Will Nina be safe with him? Will she come to know the God both her aunt and Dr. Monteith claim to serve? Will she ever be accepted despite her lack of pedigree? When a young man carelessly insults her, she vows revenge. But it is not as simple as she thought. Will she be reconciled to the one she loves? Will the mystery of the woman in black be solved? (Summary by Bria Snow) [chương_files]
14/07/2024
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is a practical handbook written by Grenville Kleiser. Grenville is known for his writings on humor, positive thinking and inspirational thought. This serves as a handbook of pertinent expressions, striking similes and terms for embellishing speech and literature. This book can be used to improve vocabulary for reading, writing and speaking alike. Through mastery of words, the most powerful and perfect expression of thought can be delivered orally. Choosing the correct words conveys ideas in a crisp and clear way that will hold and audience’s attention. Language can also act as an instrument to reach the human heart and awaken the soul. The author spent years of his life to provide the correct expressions in speech and in writing to help people convey their message excellently and extraordinarily. He has provided a means to increase the vocabulary of a person by practical methodology. This book forms the basis for speaking in a pleasing manner. Practice makes perfect and so here studying this book would surely make anyone an eloquent speaker. Do read this book if you want to master public speaking and develop the mental traits of clarity, exactness and precision. [chương_files]
14/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 004
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
14/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 009
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 009: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
14/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 010
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 010: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]