Scaramouche by Rafael SABATINI (1875 - 1950), translated by UNKNOWN ( - ) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance Read by: Gord Mackenzie in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - THE REPUBLICAN 00:24:38 - 02 - THE ARISTOCRAT 00:51:58 - 03 - THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN 01:18:33 - 04 - THE HERITAGE 01:33:53 - 05 - THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC 01:46:17 - 06 - THE WINDMILL 02:07:26 - 07 - THE WIND 02:45:13 - 08 - OMNES OMNIBUS 03:08:26 - 09 - THE AFTERMATH 03:31:35 - 10 - THE TRESPASSERS 04:10:12 - 11 - THE SERVICE OF THESPIS 04:33:07 - 12 - THE COMIC MUSE 05:03:25 - 13 - EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS 05:26:52 - 14 - ENTER SCARAMOUCHE 05:50:48 - 15 - CLIMENE 06:29:33 - 16 - THE CONQUEST OF NANTES 06:55:20 - 17 - THE DREAM 07:14:17 - 18 - THE AWAKENING 08:07:58 - 19 - CONTRITION 08:34:29 - 20 - THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU 09:22:53 - 21 - TRANSITION Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him 'Scaramouche' (also called Scaramuccia, a roguish character in the commedia dell'arte), but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship. The later film version includes one of the longest, and many believe, best swashbuckling sword-fighting scenes ever filmed.The novel has a memorable start (Book I: The Robe, Chapter I, 'The Republican'): 'He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillacs had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it.'(Summary by Gord) More information: http://librivox.org/scaramouche-by-rafael-sabatini/

North and South (version 2) by Elizabeth Cleghorn GASKELL (1810 - 1865) Genre(s): Historical Fiction Read by: Kara Shallenberg, Lee Ann Howlett, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Madame Tusk, Yazpistachio, JemmaBlythe, Robin Cotter, thomasina, foudebassan, TinyPines, Michelle Crandall in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 'HASTE TO THE WEDDING' 00:27:28 - 02 - ROSES AND THORNS 00:44:56 - 03 - 'THE MORE HASTE THE WORSE SPEED' 01:14:15 - 04 - DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES 01:45:26 - 05 - DECISION 02:11:54 - 06 - FAREWELL 02:25:50 - 07 - NEW SCENES AND FACES 02:43:11 - 08 - HOME SICKNESS 03:09:22 - 09 - DRESSING FOR TEA 03:20:06 - 10 - WROUGHT IRON AND GOLD 03:42:38 - 11 - FIRST IMPRESSIONS 04:00:02 - 12 - MORNING CALLS 04:12:25 - 13 - A SOFT BREEZE IN A SULTRY PLACE 04:27:28 - 14 - THE MUTINY 04:40:33 - 15 - MASTERS AND MEN 05:13:09 - 16 - THE SHADOW OF DEATH 05:35:49 - 17 - WHAT IS A STRIKE? 05:58:35 - 18 - LIKES AND DISLIKES 06:16:18 - 19 - ANGEL VISITS 06:43:40 - 20 - MEN AND GENTLEMEN 07:04:16 - 21 - THE DARK NIGHT 07:22:54 - 22 - A BLOW AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 07:56:24 - 23 - MISTAKES 08:14:09 - 24 - MISTAKES CLEARED UP 08:28:42 - 25 - FREDERICK 08:55:14 - 26 - MOTHER AND SON 09:07:06 - 27 - FRUIT-PIECE 09:21:07 - 28 - COMFORT IN SORROW North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The change of lifestyle shocks Margaret, who sympathizes deeply with the poverty of the workers and comes into conflict with John Thornton, the owner of a local mill, also a friend of her father. After an encounter with a group of strikers, in which Margaret attempts to protect Thornton from the violence, he proposes to her, telling her that he is in love with her; she rejects his proposal of marriage, mainly because she sees it as if it were out of obligation for what she had done. Later, he sees her with her fugitive brother, whom he mistakes for another suitor, and this creates further unresolved conflict. Margaret, once she believes she has lost his affection, begins to see him in another light, and eventually they are reunited. (Summary from Wikipedeia) More information: http://librivox.org/north-and-south-by-elizabeth-cleghorn-gaskell-version-2/

Earth's Enigmas by Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS (1860 - 1943) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Nature & Animal Fiction, Single Author Collections Read by: Larry Wilson, Jessica Renfro, April6090, Pete McElveen, KHand, Zloot, Matt Bounds, Nemo, Mitzi, Kate Follis in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Do Seek their Meat from God 00:14:19 - 02 - The Perdu 00:47:05 - 03 - The Young Ravens that Call upon Him 00:55:08 - 04 - Within Sound of the Saws 01:19:40 - 05 - The Butt of the Camp 01:38:10 - 06 - In the Accident Ward 01:42:14 - 07 - The Romance of an Ox-Team 02:00:25 - 08 - A Tragedy of the Tides 02:16:56 - 09 - At the Rough-and-Tumble Landing 02:35:36 - 10 - An Experience of Jabez Batterpole 02:47:00 - 11 - The Stone Dog 03:06:35 - 12 - The Barn on the Marsh 03:18:46 - 13 - Captain Joe and Jamie 03:35:04 - 14 - Strayed 03:43:49 - 15 - The Eye of Gluskâp Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which seemed to me to have a coherency, completeness, and symbolic significance sufficiently marked to justify me in setting them down. The rest are scenes from that simple life of Canadian backwoods and tide-country with which my earlier years made me familiar. - Summary by CHARLES G D ROBERTS More information: https://librivox.org/earths-enigmas-by-sir-charles-g-d-roberts/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2 by Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE (1749 - 1832), translated by John OXENFORD (1812 - 1877) Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography Read by: Craig Campbell, Barbara Baker, Jan Moorehouse, jeandelfrio, corina23 in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 13 - Book Thirteen: Part 2 00:43:18 - 14 - Book Thirteen: Part 3 A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) wrote his autobiography between the years 1811 and 1833. It covered the years from his youth until he was going to leave Weimar after the completion of his first book, The Sorrows of Young Werther. The Librivox recording of Volume 1 includes books one through ten. This second volume includes books ten through thirteen. Johann Goethe was an interesting individual. Here is a sample of Goethe's observations.We (Goethe and Herder) had not lived together long in this manner when he confided to me that he meant to be competitor for the prize which was offered at Berlin, for the best treatise on the origin of language. His work was already nearly completed, and, as he wrote a very neat hand, he could soon communicate to me, in parts, a legible manuscript. I had never reflected on such subjects, for I was yet too deeply involved in the midst of things to have thought about their beginning and end. The question, too, seemed to me in some measure and idle one; for if God had created man as man, language was just as innate in him as walking erect; he must have just as well perceived that he could sing with his throat, and modify the tones in various ways with tongue, palate, and lips, as he must have remarked that he could walk and take hold of things. If man was of divine origin, so was also language itself: and if man, considered in the circle of nature was a natural being, language was likewise natural. These two things, like soul and body, I could never separate.Silberschlag, with a realism crude yet somewhat fantastically devised, had declared himself for the divine origin, that is, that God had played the schoolmaster to the first men. Herder's treatise went to show that man as man could and must have attained to language by his own powers. I read the treatise with much pleasure, and it was of special aid in strengthening my mind; only I did not stand high enough either in knowledge or thought to form a solid judgment upon it. But one was received just like the other; there was scolding and blaming, whether one agreed with him conditionally or unconditionally. The fat surgeon (Lobstein) had less patience than I; he humorously declined the communication of this prize-essay, and affirmed that he was not prepared to meditate on such abstract topics. He urged us in preference to a game of ombre, which we commonly played together in the evening. P. 349-350 (Wikipedia and Craig Campbell) More information: http://librivox.org/the-autobiography-of-goethe-volume-2-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)