The Bishop's Secret by Fergus HUME (1859 - 1932) Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Historical Fiction, Published 1800 -1900 Read by: David Wales in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Publisher's Preface 00:02:55 - 01 - Chapter 01 'Enter Mrs. Pansey As Chorus' 00:22:30 - 02 - Chapter 02 The Bishop Is Wanted 00:43:39 - 03 - Chapter 03 The Unforeseen Happens 01:04:06 - 04 - Chapter 04 The Curiosity Of Mr. Cargrim 01:24:42 - 05 - Chapter 05 The Derby Winner 01:42:24 - 06 - Chapter 06 The Man With The Scar 01:58:54 - 07 - Chapter 07 An Interesting Conversation 02:18:31 - 08 - Chapter 08 On Saturday Night 02:36:21 - 09 - Chapter 09 An Exciting Adventure 02:54:21 - 10 - Chapter 10 Morning Service In The Minster 03:12:23 - 11 - Chapter 11 Miss Whichello's Luncheon-party 03:30:56 - 12 - Chapter 12 Bell Mosk Pays A Visit 03:47:31 - 13 - Chapter 13 A Stormy Night 04:06:39 - 14 - Chapter 14 'Rumour full Of Tongues' 04:24:21 - 15 - Chapter 15 The Gipsy Ring 04:43:54 - 16 - Chapter 16 The Zeal Of Inspector Tinkler 05:02:05 - 17 - Chapter 17 A Clerical Detective 05:22:21 - 18 - Chapter 18 The Chaplain On The Warpath 05:39:55 - 19 - Chapter 19 The Bishop's Request 05:58:19 - 20 - Chapter 20 Mother Jael 06:18:12 - 21 - Chapter 21 Mrs. Pansey's Festival 06:40:02 - 22 - Chapter 22 Mr. Mosk Is Indiscreet 06:57:33 - 23 - Chapter 23 In The Library Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What transpired between them that has so upset the good churchman? And then there is the murder. Fergus Hume was one of the most prolific and most popular of 19th century novelists. 'Mr. Hume won a reputation second to none for plot of the stirring, ingenious, misleading, and finally surprising kind, and for working out his plot in vigorous and picturesque English. In 'The Bishop's Secret,' while there is no falling off in plot and style, there is a welcome and marvelous broadening out as to the cast of characters, representing an unusually wide range of typical men and women. These are not laboriously described by the author, but are made to reveal themselves in action and speech in a way that has, for the reader, all the charm of personal intercourse with living people....'(Book Preface and david wales) More information: http://librivox.org/the-bishops-secret-by-fergus-hume/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

French History for English Children by Caroline Emelia STEPHEN (1834 - 1909) Genre(s): Children's Fiction, *Non-fiction, History Read by: Guero, nzk, Delmar H Dolbier, Snapdragon, Cate Barratt, nlonghu, zcameo, Kalynda, Diana Majlinger, Stephanie Lee, Sarah Jennings, K.G.Cross, Cebes, Grace, Joni, Betty Chen in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Ancient Gaul 00:07:54 - 02 - 02 - Caesar in Gaul (B.C. 58-51) 00:16:38 - 03 - 03 - Gaul a Roman Province (B.C. 70-250 A.D.) 00:21:30 - 04 - 04 - Conquest of Gaul by the Franks (300 A.D.) 00:27:41 - 05 - 05 - The Merovingian Kings (481-687) 00:39:26 - 06 - 06 - The Mayors of the Palace (687-741) 00:48:47 - 07 - 07 - The Carlovingians (741-768) 00:57:02 - 08 - 08 - Charlemagne (771-814) 01:08:29 - 09 - 09 - Descendants of Charlemagne (814-843) 01:14:59 - 10 - 10 - The Last Carlovingian Kings (843-987) 01:25:42 - 11 - 11 - Hugh Capet - Robert (987-1031) 01:35:56 - 12 - 12 - Henry I (1031-1060) 01:47:13 - 13 - 13 - Philip I (1060-1108) 02:00:23 - 14 - 14 - Louis VI (1108-1137) 02:07:32 - 15 - 15 - Louis VII (1137-1180) 02:22:14 - 16 - 16 - Philip II (1180-1223) 02:35:06 - 17 - 17 - Philip II (continued) 02:47:30 - 18 - 18 - Louis VIII (1223-1226) 02:52:11 - 19 - 19 - Louis IX (1226-1270) 03:10:37 - 20 - 20 - Philip III (1270-1286) 03:22:04 - 21 - 21 - Philip IV (1286-1314) 03:36:46 - 22 - 22 - Louis X (1314-1316) 03:43:48 - 23 - 23 - Philip V (1316-1322) 03:51:06 - 24 - 24 - Charles IV (1322-1328) 03:57:19 - 25 - 25 - Philip VI (1328-1350) 04:16:16 - 26 - 26 - John (1350-1364) 04:35:47 - 27 - 27 - Charles V (1364-1380) 04:46:03 - 28 - 28 - Charles VI (1389-1422) 04:58:30 - 29 - 29 - Charles VI (continued) 05:10:27 - 30 - 30 - Charles VII (1422-1461) 05:29:51 - 31 - 31 - Louis XI (1461-1483) 05:44:29 - 32 - 32 - Charles VIII (1483-1498) 05:56:16 - 33 - 33 - Louis XII (1498-1515) 06:07:22 - 34 - 34 - Francis I (1515-1547) 06:23:39 - 35 - 35 - Francis I (continued) 06:36:38 - 36 - 36 - Henry II (1547-1559) 06:50:50 - 37 - 37 - Francis II (1559-1560) A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children. (Summary by Guero) More information: http://librivox.org/french-history-for-english-children-by-caroline-emelia-stephen/

Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 1 by François-René de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848) Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction Read by: Christiane Jehanne in French Parts: Part 2 https://youtu.be/DyAomtc5kDA Part 3 https://youtu.be/fRxFd0fzIHo Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction par Edmond Biré 00:29:39 - 01 - Introduction par Edmond Biré Suite 01:11:56 - 02 - Préface testamentaire 01:24:58 - 03 - Avant-propos 01:31:34 - 04 - 1ère partie, livre 01 02:09:54 - 05 - 1ère partie, livre 01, suite 02:48:49 - 06 - 1ère partie, livre 02 03:36:31 - 07 - 1ère partie, livre 02, suite 04:07:15 - 08 - 1ère partie, livre 03 04:45:46 - 09 - 1ère partie, livre 03, suite 05:17:12 - 10 - 1ère partie, livre 04 05:37:54 - 11 - 1ère partie, livre 04, suite 06:18:46 - 12 - 1ère partie, livre 05 Ouvrage relatant, depuis l'enfance, la vie de CHATEAUBRIAND, avec l'Histoire de France , Bonaparte, Napoléon, la Restauration, etc... , guerres, exil, voyages en Amérique, Angleterre, proche-Orient, une vie politique, diplomatique, littéraire , si riche! , sa famille, madame Récamier, et des reflexions philosophiques, littéraires, poétiques... : une 'tapisserie' parfaite de différents sujets qui s'entremêlent, se rejoigent avec l'érudition si vaste er le talent prodigieux de l'auteur. - Résumé par Christiane Jehanne More information: https://librivox.org/memoires-doutre-tombe-1-de-chateaubriand/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy TAYLOR (1613 - 1667) Genre(s): Christianity - Other Read by: KHand, MaryAnn, Chris Bunn, Ed Humpal, Joseph Tabler, David Lawrence, OCTL7, TriciaG, Amelia Chesley, DeAnna Dailey, sgrace, Tony Addison, Jill Preston, Anna Roberts in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Dedication 00:23:29 - 01 - I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life 00:41:00 - 02 - I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice 01:00:16 - 03 - I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life 01:22:19 - 04 - I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life 01:35:42 - 05 - I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice 01:42:39 - 06 - II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life 01:54:45 - 07 - II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed 02:15:53 - 08 - II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life 02:22:48 - 09 - II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices 02:33:27 - 10 - III.I. Of the State of Sickness 02:42:20 - 11 - III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience 02:48:26 - 12 - III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience 02:54:32 - 13 - III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration 03:15:18 - 14 - III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise 03:26:25 - 15 - III.VI. Advantages of Sickness 04:04:03 - 16 - III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies 04:17:27 - 17 - III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise 04:31:46 - 18 - III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified 04:51:34 - 19 - IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience 05:10:57 - 20 - IV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 05:30:18 - 21 - IV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness 05:41:13 - 22 - IV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation 05:51:11 - 23 - IV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness 06:04:06 - 24 - IV.VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness 06:27:11 - 25 - IV.VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 06:42:17 - 26 - IV.VIII. An Analysis or Resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the Duties commanded, and the Sins forbidden in every Commandment, for the helping the Sick Man in making his Confession Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional quality; and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, and Edmund Gosse for its literary qualities.Holy Dying is meant to instruct the reader in the 'means and instruments' of preparing for a blessed death, written in a time when death was a constant companion to life and not to be encountered without being ready for it. It assumes illness and a death-bed, with recommended meditations and prayers for the sick, the family, and the clergyman attending to the dying one. (Summary by TriciaG, with help from Wikipedia) More information: http://librivox.org/the-rule-and-exercises-of-holy-dying-by-jeremy-taylor/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)