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13/08/2024

Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History

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Chapter: 11 | Listen: 1

The history of Britain up to the Norman Conquest in the form of 100 prose commentaries, each followed by a sonnet. The commentaries set the historical scene, quoting from Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and noted historians of the times, Hawkshaws sonnets are both imaginative and reflective, often casting new light on historical figures and events. Born in Yorkshire, Ann Hawkshaw spent much of her creative life in Manchester, where her husband John Hawkshaw was elected to Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and, as a friend of Elizabeth Gaskell, she was drawn into the intellectual and literary circle of the city.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Pond And Stream

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This book is part of the author’s “Nature Books For Children” series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults. Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist who had a reputation as one of the best English writers of children’s books. “This is a book about the things that are jolly and wet: streams, and ponds, and ditches, and all the things that swim and wriggle in them. I wonder if you like them as much as they are liked by the Imp and the Elf? You know all about the Imp and the Elf, do you not? Those two small jolly children, who live in a little grey house in a green garden, and know the country and all the things in it, almost as well as they know each other? The Imp and the Elf love everything that is wet. They paddle in the streams, and build dams, and make waterfalls, and harbours, and sail boats, and do all the other things that every sensible person wants to do.” – Author’s description and david wales     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

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Chapter: 66 | Listen: 3

This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors . This edition with footnotes is by George Birbeck Hill. Boswell took many notes of Johnson’s conversations during the time when he knew one of England’s most influential men of letters and he also gives us frequent glimpses of other famous personalities who were part of Johnson’s circle in eighteenth century London.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Casey at the Bat

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Chapter: 12 | Listen: 1

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote “Casey at the Bat”, the “single most famous baseball poem ever written” according to the Baseball Almanac.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Bell Upon Organ

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Chapter: 17 | Listen: 2

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L’Engle.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Weihnachtsabend (Eine Geistergeschichte) (Version 2)

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Am Heiligen Abend erscheint dem alten Geizhals Scrooge der Geist seines verstorbenen Geschäftspartners Marley, der zu Lebzeiten noch schlimmer als Scrooge war, – und prophezeit diesem ein düsteres Ende für den Fall, dass er sein Leben nicht grundlegend ändere. Danach zeigt sich der Geist der vergangenen Weihnacht, welcher Scrooge in seine Kindheit zurückversetzt, gefolgt vom Geist der gegenwärtigen Weihnacht, der ihn ins Haus seines ärmlich lebenden Schreibers Cratchit und dessen Familie sowie in das Haus seines Neffen geleitet. … Am Ende begegnet er gar seinem eigenen zukünftigen Tod. Wird dies zu einer Läuterung führen? – (Zusammengefasst von crowwings)     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Poetry of St John of the Cross

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Chapter: 16 | Listen: 1

The poems of St John of the Cross, with their mystic depth and spiritual ecstasy, stand among the world’s great poems of Divine Love in all traditions. St John is one of the Roman Catholic Doctors of the Church, was a reformer of the Carmelite Order, and co-founder with St Teresa of Avila of the Discalced Carmelites. Teresa invited John to follow her, and in the protocols of the times, also became her Spiritual Director and Confessor. Many of their individual works could be considered the products of their mutual support and inspiration.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

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Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book, published in 1821, would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Our Little Siamese Cousin

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A book written for children to see what life is like for their ‘cousins’ in Siam. This is part of the “Our Little Cousin” series and like the others, brings to life the day to day occurrences and celebrations of children around the world that are so different, yet at heart, all the same because children and the parents who love and cherish them are the same too no matter where they live. This book lets us attend some of their Siamese festivals, take a peep into the royal palace, enter the temples, and learn something about the ways and habits of that far-away eastern country.     [chương_files]  

13/08/2024

Gods of Mars – (version 2)

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In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet’s inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead. Luck restores his friends and even his son to him, and with them he escapes his imprisonment after unmasking (but not deposing) the cruel “goddess” Issus. He finds the Martians unready, however, to fling off their ancient religion and face the frightful truth of what “eternal peace” awaits those who make the voluntary pilgrimage to the Valley Dor. Worse, his wife’s father and grandfather have failed to return from searching for him, and his wife in despair has taken the fatal pilgrimage down the River Iss. In their absence his worst enemy has seized power, and since John Carter has committed the unforgivable crime of returning from the land of the dead, all agree—for different reasons and with different intentions—that he must return to it.     [chương_files]