09/07/2024
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 018
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. [chương_files]
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09/07/2024
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 014
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. “Die Nacht – Ein Traumgesicht” und “Coco” übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda [chương_files]
09/07/2024
Flametti, oder Vom Dandyismus der Armen
Der Auf- und Untergang eines Sterns am Züricher Varieté-Himmel, nämlich der von Max Flametti, wird hier beschrieben. Charmant-unverblümt widerspiegelt der Roman das Kolorit dieser Szene samt Artisten, “illustren” Publikums, Freudenmädchen und Polizei. Frisch, gewitzt und überaus sprachgewandt umreißt Hugo Ball eine riesige Fülle von Äußerlichkeiten seiner Charaktere und lässt damit den Leser tief blicken. Er verarbeitet hier auch eigene Züricher Varieté-Erfahrungen. – Summary by Eva K. [chương_files]
09/07/2024
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 008
Diese Sammlung umfasst verschiedene deutschsprachige Texte aller Genres, Fiktion, Non-Fiktion und Lyrik. Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier. “Elternmord” übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda (1863-1931) [chương_files]
09/07/2024
World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain – III
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. The third, fourth, and fifth volumes of this collection concern British speakers. The speeches contained in this fifth volume are ordered chronologically. We begin in the year 1865 with a speech on the Canadian Confederation, and end this volume in 1906, the year in which this volume was published, with a couple of speeches on Liberalism. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
09/07/2024
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01
Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1750 and later served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain. He belonged to the Whig Party. Burke favored underpinning virtues with manners in society and stressed the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. He was an opponent to slavery and expressed appreciation for the complaints of the colonists in America before the outbreak of Revolution. This collection of his writings is the first of twelve available online at Project Gutenberg. (Adapted from Wikipedia by KevinS) [chương_files]
09/07/2024
Orpheus in de dessa
Een romantische ingenieur raakt betoverd door het spel van een Indische fluitspeler, zoals het zakelijke Nederland door het geheimzinnige Indië. ( Marcel Coenders) [chương_files]
09/07/2024
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
De Cive (“On the citizen”) is one of Thomas Hobbes’s major works. “The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam. The English translation of the work made its first appearance four years later (London 1651) under the title ‘Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society’.” It anticipates themes of the better-known Leviathan. The famous phrase bellum omnium contra omnes (“war of all against all”) appeared first in De Cive. – Summary by Wikipedia DPLs for this project were phaedo and craigdav1 [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Lettre à un magistrat sur le commerce de la librairie… et Lettre sur les aveugles…
Deux Lettres écrites avec tout le talent de Denis Diderot. 1/ Sur les lois régissant le commerce de librairie, les droits, les contrefacteurs déjà à l’époque … 2/ Sur les capacités des aveugles à percevoir et comprendre le monde. D’importantes et très précieuses réflexions et pensées de Diderot nous apportent une mine de méditations sur la nature humaine, intemporelle. – Summary by Christiane Jehanne [chương_files]
08/07/2024
If I May (Version 2)
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a number of years editing for Punch Magazine. He even wrote a good detective story — The Red House Mystery ! In this collection he addresses a vast range of issues, including: the essence of melodrama; the lingering effects of World War I; knowing geography versus owning an atlas; a new kind of haunted house; the inexplicable nature of high finance; the trouble with “experts;” how the life of bees suggests the social importance of artists; the bad influence of theatre critics on good theatre. All of these short pieces are humorous. Many are informative. Taken together, they will inspire many to navigate over to Milne’s five other book-length humorous collections: Happy Days, The Holiday Round, Not That It Matters, Once a Week, and The Sunny Side — or, perhaps, to The Red House Mystery. – Summary by Kirsten Wever [chương_files]