17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 056
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
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17/07/2024
What I Saw in America
“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is that he should be ashamed of thinking it wrong because it is funny.” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 052
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 052: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
17/07/2024
The Spirit of Christmas
A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man [chương_files]
17/07/2024
Lincoln at Cooper Union
On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City. When he gave the speech, Lincoln was considered by many to be just a country lawyer. After he gave the speech, he soon became his party’s nominee for president. [chương_files]
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]
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]