The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias SMOLLETT (1721 - 1771) Genre(s): Published before 1800 Read by: Arthur Krolman in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 35 - Chapter 35 00:07:36 - 36 - Chapter 36 00:18:00 - 37 - Chapter 37 00:33:55 - 38 - Chapter 38 00:42:58 - 39 - Chapter 39 00:59:30 - 40 - Chapter 40 01:09:42 - 41 - Chapter 41 01:23:04 - 42 - Chapter 42 01:34:53 - 43 - Chapter 43 01:42:58 - 44 - Chapter 44 01:58:44 - 45 - Chapter 45 02:10:52 - 46 - Chapter 46 02:38:26 - 47 - Chapter 47 02:55:41 - 48 - Chapter 48 03:08:26 - 49 - Chapter 49 03:28:15 - 50 - Chapter 50 03:47:02 - 51 - Chapter 51 04:06:58 - 52 - Chapter 52 04:20:02 - 53 - Chapter 53 04:32:32 - 54 - Chapter 54 04:44:31 - 55 - Chapter 55 05:01:47 - 56 - Chapter 56 05:12:34 - 57 - Chapter 57 05:23:41 - 58 - Chapter 58 05:39:19 - 59 - Chapter 59 05:56:04 - 60 - Chapter 60 06:19:51 - 61 - Chapter 61 06:35:37 - 62 - Chapter 62 06:59:15 - 63 - Chapter 63 You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed extra loot by wandering through the battlefield stripping the dead and dying of valuables. I don't even know who my father was, except he must have had my handsome looks. People liked looking at me. And people liked how I talked too. Early on, I learned that telling the truth didn't get you the same quick reward as telling them what they wanted to hear, being assiduously charming, dissimulating. In a word, lying. I became good at it. And I became the favorite of a rich Hungarian count who took me in and coaxed his pathetically naïve son to look up to me and learn to be like me. Ha! How I wanted to sell my soul to trade places with Renaldo! I wanted his money. I wanted his beautiful life. I wanted his beautiful wife -- at least for an extra notch on my belt. This is the story of how I went about achieving those things. It was easy, especially at first. Because, to tell the truth, people secretly yearn for tall tales. - Summary by Arthur Krolman More information: http://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-ferdinand-count-fathom-by-tobias-smollett/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Epistles of Cyprian by Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200 - 258) Genre(s): Christianity - Other Read by: David Ronald in English Cover design by Annise. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr by Pontius Deacon 00:48:11 - 01 - To Donatus 01:21:32 - 02 - To Carthaginian clergy from clergy of Rome, about Cyprian's retirement 01:28:20 - 03 - To presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome 01:31:11 - 04 - To presbyters and deacons of Carthage 01:34:41 - 05 - To same 01:43:05 - 06 - To Rogatianus presbyter, and other confessors 01:53:33 - 07 - To clergy, concerning prayer to God 02:09:08 - 08 - To Martyrs and confessors 02:20:12 - 09 - To clergy, concerning granting peace to lapsed prematurely, without privity of bishops 02:27:28 - 10 - To martyrs and confessors who sought that peace should be granted to lapsed 02:35:19 - 11 - To his people 02:40:35 - 12 - To clergy, concerning lapsed and catechumens, that they should not be left without superintendence 02:44:23 - 13 - To clergy, concerning those who were in haste to receive peace 02:48:32 - 14 - To presbyters and deacons assembled at Rome 02:54:12 - 15 - To Moyses and Maximus, and rest of confessors 03:03:09 - 16 - confessors to Cyprian 03:04:08 - 17 - To presbyters and deacons about foregoing and following letters 03:06:49 - 18 - Caldonius to Cyprian 03:09:10 - 19 - Cyprian to Caldonius 03:11:48 - 20 - Celerinus to Lucian 03:19:38 - 21 - Lucian to Celerinus 03:25:06 - 22 - To clergy at Rome, concerning confessors, and forwardness of Lucian, and modesty of Celerinus 03:33:12 - 23 - To clergy, on letters sent to Rome-and about appointment of Saturus as reader and Optatus as subdeacon 03:35:33 - 24 - To Moyses and Maximus and rest of confessors 03:40:51 - 25 - Moyses, Maximus, Nicostratus, and other confessors, in reply 03:57:26 - 26 - Cyprian to lapsed 04:02:06 - 27 - To presbyters and deacons 04:07:09 - 28 - To presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome 04:09:03 - 29 - presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome to Cyprian 04:17:45 - 30 - Roman clergy to Cyprian 04:33:53 - 31 - To Carthaginian clergy, about letters sent to Rome and received thence 04:36:12 - 32 - To clergy and people about ordination of Aurelius as a reader 04:41:02 - 33 - To same about ordination of Celerinus as a reader 04:50:15 - 34 - To same about ordination of Numidicus as presbyter 04:53:05 - 35 - To clergy, concerning case of poor and strangers 04:55:23 - 36 - To clergy, bidding them show every kindness to confessors in prison 05:00:25 - 37 - To Caldonius, Herculanus, and others, about Excommunication of Felicissimus 05:05:34 - 38 - Caldonius, Herculanus, and others, on Excommunication of Felicissimus with his people 05:06:48 - 39 - To people, concerning five schismatic presbyters of faction of Felicissimus 05:20:48 - 40 - To Cornelius on his refusal to receive Novatian's ordination 05:25:23 - 41 - To Cornelius about Cyprian's approval of his ordination, and concerning Felicissimus 05:33:52 - 42 - To same on his having sent letters to confessors whom Novatian had seduced 05:35:32 - 43 - To Roman confessors, urging their return to unity 05:38:30 - 44 - To Cornelius, concerning Polycarp Adrumetine 05:43:31 - 45 - Cornelius to Cyprian on return of confessors to unity 05:50:57 - 46 - Cyprian to Cornelius, congratulating him on return of confessors from schism 05:54:53 - 47 - Cornelius to Cyprian, concerning faction of Novatian with his party 05:56:54 - 48 - Cyprian's answer to Cornelius concerning crimes of Novatus 06:05:14 - 49 - Maximus and other confessors to Cyprian about their return from schism 06:06:32 - 50 - Cyprian to confessors, congratulating them on their return from schism 06:12:22 - 51 - To Antonianus about Cornelius and Novatian 06:56:16 - 52 - To Fortunatus and his other colleagues concerning those who had been overcome by tortures Little is known of the early history of Thascius Cyprian until the period of his intimacy with the Carthaginian presbyter Cæcilius, which led to his conversion A.D. 246. That he was born of respectable parentage, and highly educated for the profession of a rhetorician, is all that can be said with any degree of certainty. At his baptism he assumed the name of his friend Cæcilius, and devoted him self, with all the energies of an ardent and vigorous mind, to the study and practice of Christianity. His ordination and his elevation to the episcopate rapidly followed his conversion. With some resistance on his own part, and not without great objections on the part of older presbyters, who saw themselves superseded by his promotion, the popular urgency constrained him to accept the office of bishop of Carthage , which he held until his martyrdom . The writings of Cyprian, apart from their intrinsic worth, have a very considerabl... More information: https://librivox.org/epistles-of-cyprian-by-saint-cyprian-of-carthage/

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (version 2) by Anne BRONTË (1820 - 1849) and Charlotte BRONTË (1816 - 1855) and Emily BRONTË (1818 - 1848) Genre(s): Anthologies Read by: Libby Gohn, Elizabeth Klett, Drew Johnson, Elizabeth KlettLibby Gohn, Libby GohnDrew Johnson in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Pilate's Wife's Dream 00:10:01 - 02 - Mementos 00:22:52 - 03 - The Wife's Will 00:33:05 - 04 - Frances 00:44:55 - 05 - Gilbert 01:02:23 - 06 - Life 01:03:44 - 07 - The Letter 01:07:34 - 08 - Regret 01:09:18 - 09 - Presentiment 01:12:49 - 10 - The Teacher's Monologue 01:17:19 - 11 - Passion 01:20:02 - 12 - Preference 01:23:37 - 13 - Evening Solace 01:25:38 - 14 - Stanzas 01:28:07 - 15 - Parting 01:29:49 - 16 - Apostasy 01:33:37 - 17 - Winter Stores 01:36:14 - 18 - The Missionary 01:44:26 - 19 - Faith and Despondency 01:48:23 - 20 - Stars 01:51:03 - 21 - The Philosopher 01:53:58 - 22 - Remembrance 01:56:24 - 23 - A Death-Scene 01:59:10 - 24 - Song 02:00:48 - 25 - Anticipation 02:03:38 - 26 - The Prisoner 02:08:25 - 27 - Hope 02:09:48 - 28 - A Day Dream 02:13:21 - 29 - To Imagination 02:15:43 - 30 - How Clear She Shines 02:18:33 - 31 - Sympathy 02:19:56 - 32 - Plead for Me 02:22:30 - 33 - Self-Interogation 02:25:17 - 34 - Death 02:27:48 - 35 - Stanzas to --- 02:29:45 - 36 - Honour's Martyr 02:33:17 - 37 - Stanzas 02:34:33 - 38 - My Comforter 02:37:01 - 39 - The Old Stoic 02:38:07 - 40 - A Reminiscence 02:39:20 - 41 - The Arbour 02:41:13 - 42 - Home 02:42:55 - 43 - Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas 02:45:52 - 44 - The Penitent 02:46:50 - 45 - Music on Christmas Morning 02:49:28 - 46 - Stanzas 02:51:12 - 47 - If This Be All 02:53:00 - 48 - Memory 02:55:44 - 49 - To Cowper 02:58:13 - 50 - The Doubter's Prayer 03:01:04 - 51 - A Word to the 'Elect' 03:03:54 - 52 - Past Days 03:05:44 - 53 - The Consolation 03:07:39 - 54 - Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day 03:08:49 - 55 - Views of Life 03:17:16 - 56 - Appeal 03:18:08 - 57 - The Student's Serenade 03:20:09 - 58 - The Captive Dove 03:21:54 - 59 - Self-Congratulation 03:24:50 - 60 - Fluctuations 03:26:50 - 61 - Introduction to Selections from the Poems by Ellis Bell 03:32:47 - 62 - I. 03:35:50 - 63 - II. Bluebell 03:37:56 - 64 - III. 03:42:05 - 65 - Untitled ('Shall earth no more inspire thee') 03:44:00 - 66 - The Night-Wind 03:47:53 - 67 - Love and Friendship 03:49:03 - 68 - The Elder's Rebuke 03:51:18 - 69 - The Wanderer from the Fold 03:53:29 - 70 - Warning and Reply 03:55:12 - 71 - Last Words 03:56:52 - 72 - The Lady to Her Guitar 03:58:14 - 73 - The Two Children 04:01:35 - 74 - The Visionary 04:03:35 - 75 - Encouragement 04:05:19 - 76 - Stanzas 04:07:06 - 77 - Untitled ('No coward soul is mine') 04:09:16 - 78 - Introduction to Selections from the Poems by Acton Bell 04:11:26 - 79 - Despondency 04:13:14 - 80 - A Prayer 04:14:27 - 81 - In Memory of a Happy Day in February 04:16:47 - 82 - Confidence 04:18:05 - 83 - Lines Written from Home 04:20:16 - 84 - The Narrow Way 04:22:17 - 85 - Domestic Peace 04:24:03 - 86 - The Three Guides 04:33:51 - 87 - Untitled ('I hoped, that with the brave and strong') The Bronte sisters, most famous for their novels, began their career with a slim volume of poetry, published under pseudonyms. It only sold two volumes, but inspired much interest in the identities of the unknown poets. This is a recording of the more successful 1850 edition, which includes additional poems by Emily and Anne which Charlotte collected after their deaths. (Summary by Libby Gohn) More information: http://librivox.org/poems-by-currer-ellis-and-acton-bell-version-2-by-anne-bronte/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories by Thomas Wallace KNOX (1835 - 1896) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction Read by: Michael F. Plueger Sr., DannyHauger, Mike Pelton, Paezra, Matthew Thompson, Anthony Castellani, ToddHW, Lynda Marie Neilson, Kalynda, NathanTroyer in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - The Talking Handkerchief 00:37:54 - 02 - Frozen to an Ice-Floe 00:53:00 - 03 - Captured by Cannibals 01:12:30 - 04 - In a Shark's Mouth 01:25:30 - 05 - Beset by Chinese Pirates 01:41:40 - 06 - Jugglers of the Orient 02:02:42 - 07 - The Serf's Revenge 02:19:57 - 08 - The Head-Hunters of Borneo 02:34:52 - 09 - A Fight with a Tiger 02:44:37 - 10 - Caught in a Typhoon 02:55:25 - 11 - Chased by Wolves 03:15:11 - 12 - Betrayed by a Mirage 03:27:30 - 13 - To the Great Wall of China 03:42:09 - 14 - A Corroboree in Australia 03:57:35 - 15 - Treed by an Elephant 04:10:09 - 16 - Stopped by Russian Robbers 04:28:55 - 17 - A Battle with a Kangaroo 04:44:01 - 18 - A Russian Elopement 04:58:29 - 19 - Chased by Malay Pirates 05:08:59 - 20 - An Exile's Escape from Siberia 05:24:36 - 21 - Oriental Thieves 05:38:52 - 22 - A Chemical Detective This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural disasters, and are attacked by wild animals. Cunning plans are executed and daring escapes are accomplished, all in the particular style of the 19th century adventure story. Thomas Knox was an author who had travelled around the world by the time he wrote the stories in this volume, and who was no stranger to any of the geographic areas in which he set his stories. - Summary by Carolin More information: http://librivox.org/the-talking-handkerchief-and-other-stories-by-thomas-wallace-knox/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)