06/07/2024
Valda berättelser
A selection of short stories by Selma Lagerlöf. In Swedish, but with a short foreword in English. Edited by Jules Mauritzon. – Summary by AnnaSofia [chương_files]
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06/07/2024
Woman’s War
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the “good” Dr. James Murchison and Betty and the “bad” Dr. Parker Steele. But, of course, no one is all good or all bad and there are hurdles to overcome, in this case in the form of alcoholism. The cost of the war between the two women is greater than either woman imagined. Deeping draws on his experiences as the son of a doctor in portraying some of the less pleasant facts of physiological reality, maybe more than in many other fictional works in this engrossing and heart-wrenching tale. – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]
06/07/2024
Spider
Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disastrous if this were known among his associates at the club, and especially if his intended in-laws found out. But he is quite sure no one else knows, that is until his old college classmate, Constantine Maunders, visits him with a proposition he can’t refuse. Maunders knows all, and he wants to be made a partner in the agency, providing “Nemo” with black-mail worthy information on other people in society in return for a share of the financial rewards for their silence. Vernon is appalled, particularly as “Nemo” is engaged in solving a high profile blackmail case. These are the beginning of Vernons conundrums as the clues unfold. – Summary by Don W. Jenkins [chương_files]
06/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079
“It was about the month of May…that I received information …that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England under circumstances which seemed to put fraud out of the question.” (Arthur Conan Doyle 1920). Differing foundational beliefs and the varied ways men and women seek truth, whether through science, faith, philosophic speculation or political involvement, are highlighted in the selections for vol 079: The Cottingley Fairies; Scientific Ghosts; Matter and Memory; A Village Discussion; The Early Narratives of Genesis; The Connection Between Church and State; The Prince; Miss Morrison’s First Visit to the Petit Trianon; The Scientific Work of Miss N.M. Stevens; Homicide; Religion and Philosophy in Germany; The Public Bath Movement; The Right to Work; and Rivers of the Nameless Dead. People and places are the subject of The Pinehurst Tea Gardens; Sights and Tastes in Tripoli; and William Coppin and Marine Salvage. For respite, there are essays featuring nature and solitude: In the Christmas Woods and A Lazy Morning. Finally, cats win out, when governor Adlai Stevenson vetoes a legislative proposal banning roaming felines in Illinois. Summary by Sue Anderson [chương_files]
06/07/2024
Coffee Break Collection 031 – Springtime
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
Totenmesse
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
G.K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine
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
Women, Children, Love and Marriage
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
Leo Tolstoy
Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson) [chương_files]
06/07/2024
Coffee Break Collection 030 – Mythical Creatures
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]