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06/07/2024
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Coffee Break Collection 031 – Springtime

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This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes’ duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection is SPRINGTIME.     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Totenmesse

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Sprachlich kunstvoll und ausdrucksstark gestaltete, wortgewaltige Analyse der menschlichen Psyche. Das Werk inspirierte den norwegischen Maler Edvard Munch zu seinem weltberühmten Bild “Der Schrei”, welches wiederum Przybyszewski zum Schreiben des gleichnamigen Romans veranlasste. So schließt sich der Kreis …. (Zusammenfassung von Friedrich)     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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G.K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine

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A collection of 5 articles/essays and 2 letters written by G.K. Chesterton in “The Century Illustrated Magazine”. The pubilcation dates range from 1912-1923. (Summary by Maria Therese)     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Women, Children, Love and Marriage

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This book contains a number of essays about various subjects pertaining to women, children love and marriage – Summary by ashleighjane     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Leo Tolstoy

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Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson)     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Coffee Break Collection 030 – Mythical Creatures

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This is the 30th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes’ duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection is “MYTHICAL CREATURES”… leprechauns, unicorns, angels, demons, ghosts, fairies, gnomes, dragons, mermaids, centaurs, werewolves . . . the list goes on and on. There are 21 stories in this collection.     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2

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Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of a good investigating officer and how to utilize various experts, to tactics employed by criminals, how to analyze footprints and blood stains, and ways that criminals perpetrate crimes. Some of the remarks relate directly to India, such as disguising one’s caste. Volume 2 (of 3) consists of Parts 2 and 3 of the 4 parts in the work. – Summary by TriciaG     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South

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According to the author of the Preface, “Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between the white and black races. His denunciation against mob violence is bitter, but pleads for just treatment and a fair deal in court and equal protection from the authorities of the law.”     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Our Village, Volume 2

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This volume continues Miss Mitford’s reflections on the changes to village life and characters when she returns two years after the end of Volume 1. It follows the same keen and witty observations of villagers and their continuing stories as well as the seasonal and localised general changes over this time. This selection also includes many memories of Miss Mitford’s own school years and her introduction into “society”. (Summary by Anne Fletcher) The text source is missing pages 198, 199, 236 and 237, which can be found in the following links: The Old House at Aberleigh My Godfathers manoeuvering     [chương_files]  

06/07/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080

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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. “Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manner. The pressure of environment, of mass ideas, of the socialized intelligence… is too enormous to be withstood.” (H. L. Mencken, 1919) The individual and society were central to several vol. 080 reads: The Genealogy of Etiquette; A Lounge on the Lawn; Alexander Pushkin; Princess Zizianoff; The Hanseatic League; and The Limits of Atheism. Science and the inventive mind were covered in “On the Science of Experiments; Coffey’s Science of Logic; Medicine and It’s Subjects; How a Fast Train is Run; and The Telephone. Travel and customs were explored in Rupert Brooke & Skyros; Lundy Island; and An Unfamiliar Naples. Nature studies included Wildflowers of the Farm; Birds in the Calendar; Trees in Landscape Painting, and A Tame Rook. Finally, a dog’s life received favorable comparison with our own in The Superior Animal. Summary by Sue Anderson The authorship of Lundy Island, originally ascribed to Anonymous has been determined through genealogical research to be Amelia Ann Heaven, a member of the family which owned the island from 1834 to 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy Roger Bacon’s On the Science of Experiments was translated by Andrew George Little (1863-1945)     [chương_files]