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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (version 2)

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 45 | Listen: 3

This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time of the Civil War. It also provides a fascinating character study of a wide variety of people, including various slave owners, families of slave owners, traders, bystanders, the slaves themselves, and participants in the underground railroad. On one hand there is the ignorance, false mindsets, indifference and even blatant cruelty and abuse on the part of some, and on the other hand there is great love and compassion and sacrifice on the part of others. This was the best-selling novel of the 19th Century and is said to have helped fuel the cause of the abolitionists. (Summary by Larraine Paquette and Wikipedia) [chương_files]

13/07/2024

Little Star

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Poetry
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 6

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Little Star, author unknown, which parodies the previous week’s children’s favourite The Star. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 31st, 2013. [chương_files]

Satires and Profanities

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Essays, Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 6

“Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from burial in the great mausoleum of the periodical press. There will doubtless be a diversity of opinion as to their value. One critic, for instance, has called “The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm” a witless squib; but, on the other hand, the late Professor Clifford considered it a piece of exquisite mordant satire worthy of Swift. Such differences are inevitable from the very nature of the subject. Satire, more than any other form of composition, rouses antipathy where it does not command applause; and the greater the satire, the more intense are the feelings it excites.” (G. W. Foote in his Preface) [chương_files]

Three Clerks (version 2)

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 47 | Listen: 2

Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of how ambition within the service can affect friendship and love. (Summary by Anthony Ogus) [chương_files]

North of Boston

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Poetry
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 4

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1* Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man (00:03:45) The Mountain (00:12:20) A Hundred Collars (00:18:14) Part 2* Home Burial (00:00:18) The Black Cottage (00:06:16) Blueberries (00:12:56) A Servant to Servants (00:18:44) Part 3* After Apple-picking (00:00:16) The Code (00:02:16) The Generations of Men (00:08:01) The Housekeeper (00:18:55) Part 4* The Fear (00:00:16) The Self-seeker (00:05:27) The Wood-pile (00:16:35) Good Hours (00:18:47) [chương_files]

Coffee Break Collection 035 – Birds

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Essays & Short Works, Short Stories
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

This is the 35th 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 “BIRDS” (includes bird watching, training, pets, migratory patterns, filming, fantasy fiction, etc) … and the collection is full after 20 pieces have been submitted. [chương_files]

Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire

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Early Modern, Essays & Short Works, Political Science
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 4

Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter’s famous essay “On Friendship.” Here, however, he tackles a different, more impersonal relationship: that of ruler and ruled. The argument in this work is encapsulated in this quote: “A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when, having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or, rather, apparently welcomes it.” Montaigne claimed that Boétie composed this work at the age of 18, and it was published over a decade after the young man’s tragic death at 32. Some commentators up to the present day have argued that Montaigne himself was the author, and that he used the cover of his late friend’s name because of its radical content. Whatever the truth, these words have inspired anti-authoritarian thinking for centuries. – Summary by Ben Adams [chương_files]

The Constant Lover

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Poetry
Chapter: 10 | Listen:

Sir John Suckling (1609-42) was one of the Cavalier poets at the court of King Charles I of England. He took up arms in the conflicts of that era but was said to be more fit for the boudoir than the battlefield. He was a prolific lover, a sparkling wit and an excessive gamester and is credited with inventing the card game, Cribbage. Cavalier poetry was witty, decorous and sometimes naughty. The Constant Lover displays these elements as well as Suckling’s conversational ease and charm. [chương_files]

Excursions

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Essays & Short Works, Nature
Chapter: 25 | Listen:

Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction entitled “Biographical Sketch” in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau. The book, other than R. W. Emerson’s biography of Thoreau, contains nine of Thoreau’s essays: Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, and Night and Moonlight. – (summary from Wikipedia.org) [chương_files]

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

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Essays & Short Works, Letters
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States. [chương_files]