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Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 2

Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick person’s place and not the doctor’s. Sick people were able and willing to decide what is best for them. In England and abroad, people declared that “a sick person cannot write a healthy book” and that Harriet Martineau was definitely out of her senses. It would be interesting to see how much has changed. – Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia. [chương_files]

Box-Car Children (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 2

Henry, Jess, Violet, and Benny just lost their father and are all alone. To avoid being sent to the grandfather they fear, they have no choice but to run away. What follows is a weary midnight journey and the fun of settling into an old, abandoned boxcar in the woods. When Henry’s job makes them new friends, they don’t realize how important that will be for their future. – Summary by HannahMary [chương_files]

Grace Harlowe’s Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail

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Action & Adventure, Action & Adventure Fiction
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 1

Seeking adventure after the end of the war, Grace Harlowe and friends take a journey through The Old Apache Trail. Along the way they are come up against local bandits. Disclaimer: This novel includes language and opinions that would be deemed racist in todays society. It is Librivox policy to not censor any text. This is a reflection of the time at which the novel was written and not a reflection of the opinions of Librivox or the narrator of this audiobook. (ashleighjane ) [chương_files]

Prejudices, First Series

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Essays & Short Works, Literary Criticism, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 8

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen, Arnold Bennett, William Dean Howells, Irvin S. Cobb. Mencken’s critiques are delivered against a background of his own well known ethnic, racial, religious, and sectional prejudices. (It is said that the only thing Mencken loved about the Southern United States was his wife, who hailed from Alabama.) Not for the faint of heart, Mencken’s prickly, yet unapologetic, prose reveals a window into American attitudes at the time they were written and their influences on the larger American culture. – Summary by DrPGould [chương_files]

Tom Swift and His Motorcycle

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 3

This is the very first Tom Swift adventure. Tom Swift has a newly purchased motorcycle, which he is modifying with his own inventions. He volunteers to use his bike to carry his father’s new turbine design plans to Albany, testing his motorcycle enhancements at the same time. Set upon by corporate spies out to steal his dad’s plans, Tom must escape from them, recover the plans, and complete his trip! (Colleen McMahon) Listeners are forewarned that some elements and characters included in Tom Swift books portray certain ethnic groups in a very dated manner that modern readers, and listeners, may find offensive. It is Librivox policy to maintain the original language of texts. [chương_files]

Boy Scouts on Swift River

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 1

When the adventurous Walter Upton and Hal Harrison set out with the young, but expert guide Louis Woodhull on a canoe trip through the wilderness, they were disappointed to take on an excitable Tenderfoot with them as their fourth. The boys had no idea what sorts of surprises awaited them from Nature, History, and even themselves. Would their training, equipment, and sense of camaraderie be enough to see them safely down Swift River? (Summary by Keith Salis) [chương_files]

Greenstone Door

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Action & Adventure, Historical
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 3

The Greenstone Door is a historical novel, set between 1830-1860’s New Zealand. The main character, Cedric Tregarthen, is remembering his past, telling the story both from his vantage point as an old man remembering, and as a young man experiencing his life. The story starts with the sack of the Te Kuma pa and the death of his father, his subsequent adoption by the trader Purcell and protection of Te Waharoa. He grows up among the Maori people, with his foster sister Puhi-Huia and his friend, Rangiora. Together the three young people penetrate to a secret limestone cave, where in their fancy the stalagmites take the shapes of men and women in some drama of the future; Rangiora and Cedric end the racial hostility of their boyhood with an oath of peace, the compact of the Tatau Pounamu, that the Greenstone Door be closed. Events then move on in history, through the troubles that followed Waitangi. We see Cedric in Auckland, meeting his love interest and observing Governor George Grey at close range. When the Waikato war breaks out, his sympathies and loyalties are divided and, in theory, we are shown both sides. (http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-SteNove-t1-body-d2-d8.html) It is worth remembering that this book was published in 1914 and holds value as an artifact of the Pakeha(1) desire to justify their place in New Zealand and to mythologize the wars for New Zealand. In reality the conflict was ‘brutal, bloody and calculated’ (RNZ). The invasion of the Waikato between 1863 and 1864 is […]

World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

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Essays & Short Works, Historical Fiction, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion
Chapter: 114 | Listen: 2

This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world’s history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part II include India, Siam, Afghanistan, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine. – Summary by Sonia Cast list for Sakoontala, or the lost ring: King: Tomas Peter First Attendant: Eva Davis Second Attendant: TJ Burns Child: lorda Sakoontala: Monika M.C. Matali: DrPGould Kasyapa: ToddHW Aditi: Sandra Schmit Pupil: Nemo Narrator: Sonia [chương_files]

Idle Hours In A Library

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Essays & Short Works, History
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 2

“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to definite scholastic ends. They are, moreover, as will readily be seen, completely unacademic in style and intention.” Published in 1897. Hudson (1841-1922) was a prolific author, naturalist, and ornithologist. His most popular book in the early 20th century was Green Mansions. [chương_files]

Tom Swift and His War Tank (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 3

Tanks are a new wartime technology, and as the US enters WWI, Tom uses his skills and his family’s factory to secretly design and build a bigger, better tank, able to travel at twice the speed of British models, with heavier armor plating, ability to roll over wider trenches, and other innovative improvements. As war fever sets in, many young men are enlisting, except for Tom Swift, which raises many concerns that he is a slacker. Even his girlfriend begins to doubt him, but he has to be secretive even from her, as the Germans do their best to steal his secrets. ( Michele Fry) [chương_files]