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Fancies Versus Fads

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 1

A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander.” (From the Introduction) [chương_files]

Romance Of The Commonplace

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Essays & Short Works, Humor
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 2

Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist. Nonsense verse (none in this collection) was a specialty. – Summary by David Wales [chương_files]

Alice’s Abenteuer im Wunderland

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 3

Die Titelheldin Alice wird während eines langweiligen Picknicks mit ihrer Schwester auf ein weißes Kaninchen aufmerksam, dem sie schließlich in dessen Bau folgt. Dabei landet sie in einer traumartigen Unterwelt, die vor Paradoxa und Absurditäten nur so strotzt. Beim Versuch, dem Kaninchen zu folgen, passieren dem Mädchen zahlreiche Missgeschicke… (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Hints to Pilgrims

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Essays & Short Works, Humorous Fiction
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 3

In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in everyday life. His two “frightful” comedies, “Wappin’ Wharf” and “At the Sign of the Greedy Pig”, are already in our catalogue as full-cast stage plays. (Summary by Sonia) [chương_files]

Avventure d’Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

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Action & Adventure, Literary Fiction
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 2

Traduzione italiana del celebre romanzo fantastico di Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (meglio noto sotto lo pseudonimo di Lewis Carroll) fatta dal suo amico Teodorico Pietrocola. La traduzione di Pietrocola in un italiano ottocentesco garbato e ironico ci restituisce l’atmosfera originale di questa famosa storia che tutti conosciamo spesso però solo attraverso vari adattamenti letterari, teatrali o cinematografici. (Summary by Pier) [chương_files]

Billy Whiskers in France

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 3

Billy Whiskers is in France, but he is homesick. Of course, he makes new friends and entangles himself in many adventures. He has encounters with nurses, farmers, and a terrible wharf rat. Why is he at a dog cemetery? Why is there a submarine explosion? Join our favorite goat on his adventures in France. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Niels Holgersens wunderbare Reise mit den Wildgänsen – Zweiter Teil

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 51 | Listen: 3

Dies ist die Geschichte des 14-jährigen Niels Holgersen, der von einem Kobold, den er ärgert, selbst auf Koboldgröße geschrumpft wird. Mit der Hausgans Martin, die sich einem Schwarm Wildgänsen anschließt, fliegt er durch ganz Schweden bis zu den Brutgebieten der Gänse im nördlichen Lappland und wieder zurück. Unterwegs erlebt er viele Abenteuer, wird erwachsener und lernt im Umgang mit den Tieren, ein besserer Mensch zu sein. Dieses Buch ist ein Abenteuerroman und ein Entwicklungsroman, gleichermaßen ein Buch für Kinder und Erwachsene. Selma Lagerlöf erhielt wohl auch für den Niels Holgersen 1909 als erste Frau den Literaturnobelpreis. Dies ist der zweite von zwei Teilen. (Zusammenfassung von Sonja) [chương_files]

Billy Whiskers’ Adventures

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature
Chapter: 16 | Listen:

Billy Whiskers, Stubby and Button return from France to New York where new adventures await our favorite goat and his friends. Trouble is sure to turn up in all sorts of places – at school, an unexpected shower, up in a dirigible and in Chicago. Who are the old crow and the elephant? – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Uses of Diversity

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 35 | Listen:

A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in “The Illustrated London News” and the “New Witness”. The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen’s Emma, from “On Pigs as Pets” to Mormonism and Christian Science. (Summary by Maria Therese) [chương_files]

Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 39 | Listen: 3

Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his characteristic wit. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]