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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Languages, Non-fiction
Chapter: 165 | Listen:

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is a practical handbook written by Grenville Kleiser. Grenville is known for his writings on humor, positive thinking and inspirational thought. This serves as a handbook of pertinent expressions, striking similes and terms for embellishing speech and literature. This book can be used to improve vocabulary for reading, writing and speaking alike. Through mastery of words, the most powerful and perfect expression of thought can be delivered orally. Choosing the correct words conveys ideas in a crisp and clear way that will hold and audience’s attention. Language can also act as an instrument to reach the human heart and awaken the soul. The author spent years of his life to provide the correct expressions in speech and in writing to help people convey their message excellently and extraordinarily. He has provided a means to increase the vocabulary of a person by practical methodology. This book forms the basis for speaking in a pleasing manner. Practice makes perfect and so here studying this book would surely make anyone an eloquent speaker. Do read this book if you want to master public speaking and develop the mental traits of clarity, exactness and precision. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 004

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 009

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 1

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 009: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 010

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 1

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 010: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 013

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 013: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6)

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 43 | Listen: 4

Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. This masterpiece by Mark Twain is a delightful mixture of exciting adventures, sad mishaps, floods, lazy days floating on the raft, conniving con men and human beings in their most bewildering variety. It is a great pleasure to read and listen to. (by Phil Chenevert ) [chương_files]

Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers

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Anthologies, Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 4

Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. – Summary by david wales [chương_files]

Uncle’s Dream

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 15 | Listen:

Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russia’s infamous prison for political and social prisoners, one would expect Dostoyevsky’s work to have been dark and bitter. Rather, Uncle’s Dream is a humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society. The story of elderly Prince K. who comes to visit the town of Mordasoff, lorded over by the imperious Maria Alexandrovna, is one of love, hate, deceit and greed. Standing reluctantly at Maria Alexandrovna’s side is her haughty daughter, Zina, who has few friends of her own. The prince’s companion and distant relative is Paul Mosgliakoff, suitor to Zina. Maria Alexandrovna and Zina are the central characters in the charade to lure the senile prince into a marriage of convenience (not for him but for Maria Alexandrovna and Zina). They, and a host of lesser characters, are brought to life in full color by Dostoyevsky’s masterful wordsmithing. Uncle’s Dream is a must listen for any fan of not only Dostoyevsky, but of Russian literature and the “goings-on” of the Russian “upper crust.” (Summary by Greg Giordano) [chương_files]

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 1

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking in 1875 of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo.” (Summary by Bartleby) Editor: Robert S. Bridges (1844-1930) [chương_files]

Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays

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Essays, Literary Criticism
Chapter: 36 | Listen: 3

This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare’s genius in creating and infusing characters with a life-likeness that often challenges, if not overshadows, more material human nature — in both inner and outer worlds. As he writes: “The characters breathe, move, and live, … think and speak and act just as they might do, if left entirely to themselves.” The first printing sold out in weeks, and the second sold briskly, until a harsh and antagonistic appraisal in The Quarterly Review quelled sales altogether — and unraveled Hazlitt’s critical cachet in the eyes of the general public. Not until the mid-twentieth century were Hazlitt and his works re-evaluated, when he was finally recognized as one of Shakespeare’s foremost critics of all time. In literary criticism, the renowned Harold Bloom ranks Hazlitt second only to Dr. Johnson. – Summary by Nemo [chương_files]