Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works – fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued on Dickens’ birthday, February 7th 2012, and further volumes followed during the anniversary year. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
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A Day With Great Poets
Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time to read about a day in his life and learn more about him and his likes, dislikes, background and proclivities. Also, the same with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Keats and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each of them a man or woman of their times, living each day like us, but seeing shades and hues of life that we can only experience through their exquisite poetry. These are meant by the author to be brief biographies with examples of their works and some insights into their common foibles as humans in addition to human geniuses. If you love to read poetry, you will enjoy reading these short bios which contain much of their best poetry in them. The selections are from a number of stand alone sources but Browning is part of another book and the link below is to that directly. (Summary by phil chenevert)
Coffee Break Collection 011 – Science
This is the eleventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is Science - The fascination with research, discovery, and experimentation has contributed to humanity's greatest feats. - Summary by Rosie
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 003
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author?s words all brought to life with different reader voices for each character in our popular Dramatic Reading style. This volume includes readings from Louisa May Alcott, two by L M Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Victor Hugo, Kate Chopin, C K Chesterton, Jack London, and A A Milne. NOTE that Milne died in 1956 and this story is not PD in for listeners in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years. - Summary by ToddHW Cast lists: 1. The Masked Marriage from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. BC for this DR is Salvationist Sam Pickwick: Joanna Michal Hoyt Ferdinand Deveraux: Pelham Flowerdew Count de Avalon: Wayne Cooke Fairy Queen: MaybeCordelia Troubadour: David Purdy 2. Barriers Swept Away from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery. BC for this DR is Bookworm360 Anne Blythe-Shirley: Michele Eaton Leslie Moore: MaybeCordelia Narrator: Joanna Michal Hoyt 3. A Mad Tea Party from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll . BC for this DR is jennlea Narrator: Peter Yearsley Alice: Bookwork360 Hatter: Wayne Cooke March Hare: Eitel Dormouse: Jenn Broda 4. By Courier by O. Henry, from his collection The Four Million. BC for this DR is JoannaHoyt Young Man: ToddHW Boy: Greg Giordano Young Lady: MaybeCordelia Robert Ashburton: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Joanna Michal Hoyt 05. The Bishop Works and Little Gervais, from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. BC for this DR is ElizaZ Narrator: Joanna Michal Hoyt Madame Magloire: TJ Burns Monseigneur Bienvenue: ToddHW Jean Valjean: Wayne Cooke Little Gervais: Jasmin Salma Priest: Larry Wilson 6. The Kiss by Kate Chopin. BC for this DR is wib66 Brantain: ToddHW Harvy: Greg Giordano Natalie: Matea Bracic Narrator: Michele Eaton 7. The Eye of Apollo, by G.K. Chesterton, from The Innocence of Father Brown. BC for this DR is Mozartjr Narrator: Mozartjr Father Brown: Kalamareader Kalon the Prophet: GregGiordano Flambeau: Kalamareader Ms. Joan Stacey: Aligator Ms. Pauline Stacey: LCaulkins 8. The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's by L.M. Montgomery, from The Chronicles of Avonlea. Bookwork360 is the BC for this DR Narrator/Peter-Angelina MacPherson:Bookworm360 Rev. Allan:Kalamareader Mrs. Allan:WendyKatzHiller Alexander Abraham Bennett:ToddHW Dr. Blair:GregGiordano 9. Chapter 5 of Hearts of Three by Jack London. SCaulkins is the BC for this DR Narrator: Lynette Caulkins Francis Morgan: Greg Giordano Pedro Zurita: Scott Caulkins Rafael: Wayne Cooke Gendarme: ToddHW Ignacio: Larry Wilson Augustino: Jim Locke Henry Morgan: Ben Tucker 10. The Making Of A Christmas Story, from Happy Days by A. A. Milne ( - 1956). ElizaZ is BC for this DR NOTE: Milne died in 1956. This story is not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years. Author: Wayne Cooke Editor: Greg Giordano Alice: Lynette Caulkins Robert Hardrow: Mozartjr Elsie: Eliza
Short Science Fiction Collection 054
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author?s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires thought and plants seeds that have led to advances in science. The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind. - Summary by Amy Gramour
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length vary greatly. This collection is a sampling of twenty such articles including one from the Journal de Paris. Although some of the works on the LibriVox catalog such as the Federalist Papers were published in newspapers, this is the first collection of newspaper articles. (Summary by James Smith)
The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 1
Many of B. B. Warfield's diverse and erudite theological writings were published as long articles in The Princeton Theological Review, sometimes spanning many issues of the periodical. The articles in this collection showcase the breadth of Warfield's scholarship and interest, his clarity of analysis of cultural trends and his deep Calvinistic piety. (Summary by IntheDesert) The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 2 The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 3 The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 4
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection
This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in. The "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness account, published in 1836 and purporting to reveal the horrors of life in a convent. The Donation of Constantine is a forged imperial decree, supposedly enacting a perpetual transfer of authority over the western part of the Roman Empire from the emperor to the Pope. George Psalmanazar, who passed himself off as a native of Formosa (Taiwan), wrote a fanciful book about the island, which made a splash in 18th-century London. The Great Moon Hoax was a series of fantastical descriptions of the moon, published in the 1830s by the New York newspaper The Sun, and falsely attributed to the famous astronomer Sir John Herschel. Bram Stoker tells the legend of Sebastian of Portugal, the "Hidden King", and the story of Franz Mesmer, the purveyor of "animal magnetism" from whose name the word "mesmerize" is derived. "An Architectural Monograph on a New England Village" is a painstakingly documented and illustrated description of a village that never existed. James Macpherson presented the Poems of Ossian as a traditional epic cycle translated from Scottish Gaelic, but modern scholars believe that he largely wrote the poems himself. E. G. Redmond tells of a hoax involving postage stamps, the first of which was conceived by a stamp collector in Germany. "Sketch of the Mosquito Shore" was a glowing but false account of the Central American coast, in which one could buy land from the author.
