LibriVox recording of The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey. Read in English by Brian Keenan Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postwar Jazz Age society whose revelers are tired of hearing about the war. Lane attempts to stem the tide of hedonism and debauchery that is sweeping the town with mixed results. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD...
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LibriVox recording of Wildwood Ways by Winthrop Packard. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a journey among the wild woods and ponds alerting us to their many inhabitants. He points out the birds, hornets, muskrat and mink and their habitat, particularly during the New England winter, with free flowing narrative that is both informative and entertaining, sometimes dramatic and sometimes poetic - Summary by Larry Wilson For further...
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LibriVox recording of Memories Of A Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke. (Translated by Jessie Lemont.) Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Memories of a Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 7, 2022. ----- Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926) was an Austrian poet and novelist. He is considered to be one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. His works include one novel,...
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LibriVox recording of The Fifteen Acres by James Stephens. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Fifteen Acres by James Stephens. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 31, 2022. ----- James Stephens was an Irish poet of considerable renown for wit and humor, who often observed the quirky side of things. In this case he considers what a little bird must busy himself with on a typical day, especially if he and the misses are expecting!...
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LibriVox recording of The Merry Wives of Windsor (version 2) by William Shakespeare. Read in English by Hamlet; Sonia; Tomas Peter; Craig Franklin; Jenn Broda; Kelly S. Taylor. After the character’s colorful exploits proved a rousing success in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 , William Shakespeare brought back the roguish knight Sir John Falstaff for one last adventure in The Merry Wives of Windsor , which is notable for being the only play he wrote that is set in his contemporary...
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LibriVox recording of The Romance of Modern Electricity by Charles R. Gibson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern concepts of electricity. The author discusses how man came to know about electricity, and how it powers the world of 1910. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for...
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LibriVox recording of El Libro de Las Mil Noches y Una Noche Volumen 4 by Anonymous. (Translated by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.) Read in Spanish by Victor Villarraza Ningún libro tan conocido, y menos conocido que esta famosa colección de novelas, monumento literario del pueblo árabe. Con el título de Las Mil y Una Noches circula desde hace siglos un libro que todos aceptan como una obra completa, y nada es menos cierto. Las Mil y Una Noches publicadas hasta el presente se componen de unos...
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LibriVox recording of Sugar Plums by Ella Farman Pratt. Read in English by DOLZ “Sugar Plums” by Ella Farman Pratt is a wonderful, sometimes tragic, collection of children's poems that run the spectrum between bliss and misfortune of seemingly ordinary days to the flights of fancy of children, parents and creatures alike; in places like stately homes, humble nests, city streets, and farm fields, just to name a few. Their stories are a masterful blend of whimsy and mischief, beauty and...
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LibriVox recording of Die Ahnen - Die Geschwister by Gustav Freytag. Read in German by Bernd Ungerer Die fünfte Erzählung 'Die Geschwister' ist in sich zweigeteilt und behandelt die Geschichte zweier Militärpersonen aus der Familie. Bernhard König ist der 'Rittmeister von Alt-Rosen' und die Geschichte spielt gegen Ende des 30jährigen Krieges. Der Sohn Bernhard Georg König verbringt seine Militärzeit als Feldprediger und heiratet danach eine vermögende Leipziger Kaufmannstochter. Ihre...
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LibriVox recording of A Romance of the Moors by Mona Caird. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Dick Coverdale is secretly betrothed to his neighbor, the beautiful Bessie Saunders. When a visitor to the area named Margaret Ellwood appears on the scene, however, Dick starts to regret his decision to marry Bessie. After Dick confides his troubles to Margaret, she attempts to guide him down the right path. But Margaret herself is unsure of how to advise him. On the one hand, she knows that it...
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LibriVox recording of The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Read in English by Jim Locke Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson's book is seen to have peculiar significance to the colored race in America. Hers is the first attempt I have known of directly on the part of any Negro to frame a speaker composed entirely of literature produced by black men and...
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LibriVox recording of Joanna Traill, Spinster by Annie E. Holdsworth. Read in English by Ashley Sue Murphy Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a chance at a better life. Through Mr. Boas, Joanna has the opportunity to take in as a ward a girl from a troubled background. When she takes Christine under her wing, her lonely, monotonous life starts to change for the better, and she learns to...
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LibriVox recording of The Arizona Callahan by Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones. Read in English by John; The same distinguished writer who gave you such thrilling stories of far places as “The Brazen Peacock” and “Lou-Lou” knows the odd corners of his own country too—as witness this exciting story of adventure among the untamed Beaver Islanders. - Summary by Blue Book Magazine For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox recording of Birdie and His Fairy Friends by Margaret T. Canby. Read in English by Librivox volunteers This book contains 13 stories for little children, about a little boy named Birdie and his adventures out in nature with the fairies. The stories include "The Frost Fairies", made famous by a very similar short story entitled "The Frost King", penned by deaf/blind Helen Keller when she was a young girl. Helen's story was so similar to Margaret Canby's tale, that...
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LibriVox recording of Dolly and I: Story for Little Folks by Oliver Optic. Read in English by Victoria Alice Bell; Katherine Green an envious girl is given a pretty doll by her Aunt Jane. Christmastime is approaching... Nellie Green her sister who is quite different has a rich friend over by the name of Flora Lee. They would like to use Katherine's doll because all of the other ones are in ruins from over use. Katherine who has been rather protective of her doll straight up refuses. It shows...
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LibriVox recording of Toilers of the Sea (Version 2) by Victor Hugo. (Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.) Read in English by John Greenman The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to convert seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest caliber. Set just after the Napoleonic Wars, Toilers of the Sea deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns...
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LibriVox recording of Canada and Other Poems by Thomas Frederick Young. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers From the author's preface: I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in its infancy. It must not always remain so, or the expectations we have in regard to making it a great nation, will never be fulfilled. Literature gives life to a nation, or rather it is the reflection of a nation's life and thought, in a mirror,...
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LibriVox recording of Random Readings In Racy Rhyme: A Repast For The Recluse, A Refreshment For The Railway Reader by Charles Harwood Greene. Read in English by Krista Zalesk An ecclectic collection of poems by Charles Harwood Greene. A little humor, a little dry wit, and sometimes an unexpected twist. Works include The Railway Solitare, The Lottery Mania, and The Baker's Wife. (Summary by Krista Zaleski) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds,...
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LibriVox recording of The Testament by Taras Shevchenko. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Multilingual Monthly Poetry Project is a project oriented to gather multiple translations and multiple contributions of one chosen poem for the current month. Welcome to the world of interpretations! The poet, while being heavily ill, thought that he was about to die. Feeling the grieve toward the calamity of his Fatherland - Ukraine, he writes this poem as legacy to Ukrainians. Shevchenko tells people of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, war, Ukrainian, multilingual, disease, patriotic, ukraine, legacy, testament,...
LibriVox recording of Representative Men (Version 2) by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Read in English by volunteer readers. Seven Essays: his reasoning why and how great men have always been honored and necessary in our civilization, followed by six chapters dealing with, in order: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare (sic), Napoleon and Goethe. Emerson was an old fashioned "Man of Letters". He was the head of the mid-19th century School of Transcendentalism. Poetry, essay and book on...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, Goethe, montaigne, emerson, plato, napoleon, Swedenborg, great...
LibriVox recording of Totenmesse by Stanisław Przybyszewski. Read in German by Friedrich Sprachlich kunstvoll und ausdrucksstark gestaltete, wortgewaltige Analyse der menschlichen Psyche. Das Werk inspirierte den norwegischen Maler Edvard Munch zu seinem weltberühmten Bild "Der Schrei", welches wiederum Przybyszewski zum Schreiben des gleichnamigen Romans veranlasste. So schließt sich der Kreis .... (Zusammenfassung von Friedrich) For further information, including links to online...
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LibriVox recording of Schnock by Friedrich Hebbel. Read in German by Claus Misfeldt Hebbel schildert in seiner Kurzgeschichte die Umstände einer zufällig gemachten Reisebekanntschaft. - Summary by Claus Misfeldt For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org .
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LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl" by Elizabeth L. Banks. Read in English by TriciaG Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News, Punch, St James' Gazette, and London Illustrated. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she...
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LibriVox recording of The Forgotten Man and Other Essays by William Graham Sumner. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold standard. He also had a long term influence over modern American conservatism. This is the final collection of his essays and is edited by Albert Galloway Keller. It concludes with The Forgotten Man where Sumner argued that, in his day,...
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LibriVox recording of The Sea and the Jungle by Henry Major Tomlinson. Read in English by Tatiana Chichilla. Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the Jungle is H.M. Tomlinson's firsthand account of the first journey of an English steamer up the Madeira in Brazil. Bored with his unfulfilling job in London, Tomlinson boards the steamer "Capella" at Swansea and embarks on a journey to deliver supplies to the men building railroads for the rubber harvest. The book...
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LibriVox recording of The House of Love by Elizabeth Cheney. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. “‘Little gal,’ he repeated, ‘air ye all alone in the world?’ This time the sound resolved itself into an unmistakable sob.” With these words we are introduced to young Doris Avery. Newly orphaned, penniless, and without a single friend, Doris is sent to Waverly Ridge where she has been hired to work in a farm household. With her mother’s last words, “Remember, dear, you are...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children, fiction, music, christian, orphan, children's fiction
LibriVox recording of Children's Short Works, Vol. 050 by Various. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 050: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a...
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LibriVox recording of Favorite Fairy Tales (Version 2) by Logan Marshall. Read in English by T. Craft Love fairy tales? We all do, and here are some of our "Favorite Fairy Tales." Come join us to the land of China to hear the story of "Aladdin", hear about Jack and how he climbs to treasure in "Jack and the Beanstalk," come to the woods and eat a candy house in "Hansel and Gretel." And there are so many more to listen to! - Summary by T. Craft For further...
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LibriVox recording of From Pole to Pole. A Book for Young People. by Sven Hedin. Read in English by Steven Seitel This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europa (Bonnier, Stockholm, 1911). Part 1 tells of Hedin's own extensive travels across Europe and Asia. Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. He provides fascinating...
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LibriVox recording of Cheating the Junk-Pile — The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments by Ethel Rose Peyser. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers This book of advice about the purchase and care of household appliances is intended to cheat the junk-pile by inspiring the buyer to get the utmost advantage out of every purchase thru wise buying and proper care of equipment after it is acquired. The book explains what the householder needs to know about the practical home use of...
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LibriVox recording of Song by Trumbull Stickney. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of "Song" by Trumbull Stickney. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 31, 2022. ----- Mr. Stickney may have reached his highest fame in this century when the first verse of his poem 'Song' was plagiarized by a character in the 2006 film "The Good Shepherd." - Summary by KevinS For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of Greenmantle (Version 3) by John Buchan. Read in English by Cliff Stone Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS...
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LibriVox recording of Excursions by Henry David Thoreau. Read in English by PhyllisV Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau. The book, other than R. W. Emerson's biography of Thoreau, contains nine of Thoreau's essays: Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to...
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LibriVox recording of Chronicles of Canada Volume 25 - The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion by Alfred D. DeCelles. (Translated by W. Stewart Wallace.) Read in English by volunteer readers. The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1837 and 1838. The rebellions were motivated by frustrations over lack of political reform. A key goal was responsible government,...
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LibriVox recording of LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection by Various. Read in multiple languages by volunteer readers. "LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..." Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005 In celebration of LibriVox's seventeenth anniversary, here is collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words...
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LibriVox recording of Short Ghost and Horror Collection 061 by Various. Read in English by Volunteer Readers A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for...
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LibriVox recording of Double Crossed by Wilfrid Douglas Newton. Read in English by Howard Skyman Clement Seadon is a young man of free spirit and a lust for a life of independence. However after receiving an odd request from a lawyer he is compelled to involve himself in the prevention of a dangerous plot to swindle an heiress. - Summary by Howard Skyman For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to...
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LibriVox recording of All That Glitters Is Not Gold by John Maddison Morton. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers Fresh from the success of his phenomenally popular farce, “Box and Cox,” playwright James Madison Morton and his brother, Thomas, adapted a French script into this light-hearted romantic Victorian-era melodrama. Wealthy cotton factory owner Jasper Plum has two sons, Stephen and Frederick. One has fallen in love with honest factory worker, Martha Gibbs. The other has lost his...
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LibriVox recording of Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 32, June 8, 1880 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 32nd issue of the serial was published on June 8th, 1880. In this issue, the captain and crew of the Whitewing set sail in the second installment of "The Moral Pirates", "The Story...
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LibriVox recording of The House of Baltazar by William John Locke. Read in English by Simon Evers Twenty years ago, John Balthazar, a notable and brilliant Cambridge mathematician, left England abruptly as he found himself falling in love with a woman who was not his wife. No one hears from him for 20 years and it's assumed he's dead. He travels to China where he steeps himself in the culture and returns incognito 20 years later with his Chinese pupil, Quong Ho. They live in a remote farmhouse...
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LibriVox recording of The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich. Read in English by Ann Boulais Clemens Brentano visited Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich in her Augustinian convent at Agnetenberg, Dulmen, Germany, many times from 1819 until her death in 1824. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is the result of those many interviews. Based on Sister Emmerich's visions about the life of Christ, this book details the visions that she had concerning the Last...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, meditations, Jesus Christ, visions, crucifixion, the passion, last supper
LibriVox recording of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by Phil Chenevert; Phil Chenevert to be filled in later For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (23MB)
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LibriVox recording of The Irish Land Question by Henry George. Read in English by Sean Dalton & KevinS "What I want to impress upon those who may read this paper is this: The Irish land question is not a mere local question; it is a universal question. It involves the great problem of the distribution of wealth, which is everywhere forcing itself upon attention. It can not be settled by measures which in their nature can have but a local application. It can only be settled by measures...
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LibriVox recording of The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 by George Mallory; Francis Edward Younghusband; Charles Granville Bruce; George Ingle Finch; Tom Longstaff; T. Howard Somervell. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain was discovered by George Mallory and Guy Bullock on the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition. It was an exploratory...
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LibriVox recording of Palos of the Dog Star Pack by John Ulrich Giesy. Read in English by marns007; John-Paul Nelson; PARADOXO1; Shashank Jakhmola; Paul Lawley-Jones; Peach; russcallawag; Christine Rottger Jason Croft has learned the art of astral projection, and feels a calling to the region of Sirius, the Dog Star. Projecting his consciousness there, he encounters Naia. Determined that she is his soul mate, and the sole reason he was drawn there, he determines to win her love. Occupying a...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, romance, space travel, astral-projection
LibriVox recording of The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens. Read in English by Christina Fu A pioneering work in the alternate worlds genre, The Heads of Cerberus was serialized in The Thrill Book in 1919 and published as a novel in 1952. A vial of grey dust transports three unwitting time travelers to a totalitarian version of Philadelphia in the year 2118. While certain landmarks stand unchanged, the societal structure is unrecognizable. Superlative adjectives and numbered buttons have...
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LibriVox recording of Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. Read in English by Steven Fellows Dear Denis,—Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure of both tiny dwarf and stalwart mortal. Some of these adventures will fill this little book, and already I can see you sitting in the nursery as you read them. The door is opened but you do not look up. 'Denis! Denis!' You are...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, adventure, siegfried, heroic, nibelung, germanic myth
LibriVox recording of Der rote Stern by Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov. (Translated by Hermynia Zur Mühlen.) Read in German by Friedrich Der kommunistische Schriftsteller Bogdanow (damals Mitglied des Zentralkomitees der Bolschewiki) nutzt die Form des utopischen Romans, um bereits zehn Jahre vor der Großen Sozialistischen Oktoberrevolution das Modell einer sozialistischen Gesellschaft zu entwerfen. Zu diesem Zweck verlegt er die Handlung auf den Mars (den auch symbolisch "roten"...
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LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 230 by Various. This is a collection of 47 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2022. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (66MB)
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LibriVox recording of Predecessors of Cleopatra by Leigh North. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers This book provides such information as was known at the onset of the 20th Century about Egyptian queens in antiquity. Much has been learned in the ensuing 100+ years so this book needs to be considered in the context of the time in which it was written. Queens are covered from Princess Nefert of the 3rd Dynasty through the (in)famous Cleopatra. Leigh North is the pseudonym of Mrs. Elizabeth...
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