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1900 or The Last President

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 3

The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York. The city was paralyzed with dread. Mobs organized under the lead of Anarchists and Socialists. Farther South, people celebrated. This was a President elected by the working class and he was a President who followed through with his commitment to fight for the rights of the people. This president would fight to end the enslavement of the people by money lenders, big bankers, corporations and government overtax. But can he be successful in a society that is rapidly absorbing socialist ideologies? – Summary by CJ Plogue [chương_files]

Doctor Luttrell’s First Patient

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 1

Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial problems make their marriage more and more difficult. They make ends meet before their rich neighbor needs doctor Luttrell. Would they be able to come up in the world? Would they be happy? – Summary by Stav Nisser. [chương_files]

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 4

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage. The stories, “Stella,” “The Prompter’s Daughter,” and “The Unknown Tragedian” reveal the every-day challenges faced by Victorian theatrical workers and argue against prejudices against this profession still held by many people at that time. – Summary by Kelly S. Taylor [chương_files]

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series

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Essays & Short Works, Travel & Geography
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 9

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinating he decided to stay there for the rest of his life. In these essays and recollections he expresses his curiosity, bewilderment, and marvel at Japanese tradition, culture and lifestyle. Lafcadio Hearn is best known as the most notable person to introduce Japan to the West. He produced about thirty works, including translations, retellings of folktales, and travelogues. – Summary by mlcui [chương_files]

Sunshine Factory (Version 2)

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Religion, Short Works
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 4

Sunshine Factory, written under the pseudonym Pansy, is a warm-hearted, cheerful, inspiring, and witty collection of Christian children’s tales, focusing on the character essentials of love, service, innocence, and pure faith in Christ. Uniting children, parents, and relatives, these charming vintage tales combine the wisdom of the old and new, troubles and hope, disappointment and success, tears and smiles, and truly serves to show, with beautiful simplicity, the deep importance of “sunshine factories” in every home. – Summary by DariaAM [chương_files]

Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 4

This is the 10th book in the “Outdoor Girls” series. The Hostess House at Camp Liberty having burnt down, the chums find themselves forced to take a much-needed, although not entirely welcome, vacation and had decided to spend it at a romantic spot near the ocean called Bluff Point. The cottage on the bluff had been loaned to the girls by Grace’s patriotic Aunt Mary, who declared that she owed something to the chums for having worked so hard for the good old Stars and Stripes. Mrs. Ford, worn out with war work, had gone with the girls to chaperon them. Bad tidings at first threaten to overwhelm the chums. The Fords received word that Will was seriously wounded “somewhere in France” and later Mollie received a telegram from her mother saying that the twins, Dodo and Paul, had disappeared. (Summary adapted from the next book) [chương_files]

Coffee Break Collection 026 – It’s a Small World

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Essays & Short Works, Short Stories
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 3

This is the 26th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read poems, fiction and non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes’ duration or less. The subject for this collection is “It’s a Small World”. Readers have interpreted this in their own way, so we have selections such as Asteroids, Small Country Houses of Today and stories for “small people”, such as Jack and the Beanstalk. [chương_files]

Black Star: A School Story for Boys

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 3

A school adventure set in Australia, with secret societies, bullies, mystery, a new student who calls everyone comrade, and sport, at least one handgun, and more. I only wish I could add an Australian accent! (Summary by KevinS) [chương_files]

Vicar of Wakefield

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Published before 1800
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 3

Published in 1766, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ was Oliver Goldsmith’s only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith’s behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off outstanding rent and to release himself from his landlady’s arrest. It is the story of the family of Dr Primrose, a benevolent vicar, and follows them through their fall from fortune and their ultimate rise again. The story provides insight into family life and circumstances in the mid 18th century and the plot has many aspects of a pantomime like quality: Impersonation, deception, an aristocratic villain and the abduction of a beautiful heroine. Goldsmith himself dissipated his savings on gambling whilst a student at Trinity College Dublin and subsequently travelled in Europe sustaining himself by playing the flute and disputing doctrinal matters in monasteries and universities. Later he worked as an apothecary’s assistant, a doctor and a school usher (experiences shared in this story by Dr Primrose’s son). (Summary by Martin Clifton) [chương_files]

Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

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Reference
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 6

The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. ($400?). It would be years before “Johnson’s Dictionary”, as it came to be known, would ever turn a profit; authors’ royalties being unknown at that time, Johnson, once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no further monies connected to the book. Johnson, once again a freelance writer, albeit now a famous one, faced a grim hand-to-mouth existence; however, in July 1762 the twenty-four year old King George III granted Johnson an annual pension of £300. While not making Johnson rich, it allowed him a modest yet comfortable independence for the remaining thirty years of his life. (Summary from Wikipedia). [chương_files]