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The Jumping Frog

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Humor, Languages, Short Stories
Chapter: 5 | Listen:

“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]

Boy’s Will

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Poetry
Chapter: 3 | Listen: 5

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]

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection)

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Poetry
Chapter: 40 | Listen: 8

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]

Short Poetry Collection 037

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 037: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Walking

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Literature, Nature, Non-fiction
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 2

This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled “The Wild” . He revised it before his death and it was included as part of the June 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly. This essay appears, on the surface, to be simply expounding the qualities of Nature and man’s place therein. Through this medium he not only touches those subjects, but with the implications of such a respect for nature, or lack thereof. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 035

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 035: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

What’s Wrong With the World

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Humor, Politics
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 3

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.” His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. The title of Chesteron’s 1910 collection of essays was inspired by a title given to him two years earlier by The Times newspaper, which had asked a number of authors to write on the topic: “What’s wrong with the world?”. Chesterton’s answer at that time was the shortest of those submitted – he simply wrote: “Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely yours, G.K. Chesterton”. In this collection he gives a fuller treatment of the question, with his characteristic conservative wit. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 046

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 046: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 048

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 048: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Smoke

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 29 | Listen: 3

Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affair between a young betrothed Russian man and a young married Russian woman, while also delivering in the opening chapters the author’s criticism of Russia and Russians of the period. The story takes place largely in the German resort town of Baden-Baden. — Adapted from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_(novel) [chương_files]