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Hymns to the Night

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Poetry
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 3

“Hymns to the Night” is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George MacDonald, who cited it as a great – and early – inspiration. (Summary by Pete Williams) “Hymns to the Night” is also available to Librivox listeners in the original German. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 061

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s New Short Poetry Collection 061: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 056

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

What I Saw in America

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Travel
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 3

“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]

Short Poetry Collection 052

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Poetry
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 052: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

The Spirit of Christmas

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Holiday, Religion, Short Stories
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A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man [chương_files]

Lincoln at Cooper Union

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
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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]

Short Poetry Collection 066

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 4

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 066: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, selected and read by Librivox volunteers. [chương_files]

The Appetite of Tyranny

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
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“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]

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 4)

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Poetry, Sonnets
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 2

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]