16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 028
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 028: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
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16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 034
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 034: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Long Poems Collection 006
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 006: a collection of 17 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length. [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 033
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 033: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Local Color Collection
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald)
“Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1123). “Rubaiyat” (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) means “quatrains”: verses of four lines.” (summary from Wikipedia.) [chương_files]
16/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 031
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 031: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
15/07/2024
Historical Newspaper Articles
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length vary greatly. This collection is a sampling of twenty such articles including one from the Journal de Paris. [chương_files]
15/07/2024
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to “take the waters” with her husband, described as “a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.” But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects, she finds herself the center of a conspiracy between her father, the Marquis, and the “fossil” medical team in an effort to solve the problem of a lack of heir. Suddenly the discovery of a new spa throws the resort into disarray and brings a lowly family to prominence. Romantic intrigue, financial speculation, satire in the medical profession, a social commentary on the status of women, are all delivered in de Maupassant’s picturesque prose. (Lynne Thompson) [chương_files]
15/07/2024
Rocket Book
The Rocket Book can be listened to while viewing a beautiful facsimile edition at the International Children’s Digital Libarary (ICDL): http://childrenslibrary.org/ The Rocket Book begins when the son of a building superintendent sets a match to a rocket he discovered in the basement. Suddenly, the rocket blasts its way up through apartment after apartment in a high-rise, disrupting and transforming the humdrum goings-on of twenty families till it is finally stopped cold by something in the attic. An elliptical hole is punched in each of the book’s pages and illustrations to signify where the rocket passed through every apartment! As in all of Newell’s books, the verse on the verso-page provides commentary on the recto-page illustration. This book and Newell’s The Slant Book pioneered the “special format” children’s literature of today, such as pop-up books or cutout books like Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Newell’s books from 80 years ago have been reprinted, since Newell has undergone a resurgence in popularity much as Dr. Seuss’s books did during the 1980s. This is a boon for teachers and home-schooling parents, since this recording can now be listened to as youngsters page through a real book (ISBN: 0-8048-0505-9) or as they view the ICDL scanned version online (both are a real treat)! (Summary by Denny Sayers) [chương_files]