The Amateur by Richard Harding DAVIS (1864 - 1916)
Genre(s): General Fiction, Detective Fiction, Short Stories
Read by: Crln Yldz Ksr in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter I
00:32:29 - 02 - Chapter II
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist in finding people, Mr. Ford agrees to help her in her quest. However, something appears to be not quite right about the lady and her story... (Summary by Carolin)
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O Cortiço by Aluísio AZEVEDO (1857 - 1913)
Genre(s): Romance, Published 1800 -1900
Read by: Adriana Sacciotto in Portuguese
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 14 - Capítulo 14
00:26:22 - 15 - Capítulo 15
00:55:31 - 16 - Capítulo 16
01:30:07 - 17 - Capítulo 17
01:41:36 - 18 - Capítulo 18
01:58:11 - 19 - Capítulo 19
02:36:19 - 20 - Capítulo 20
03:00:14 - 21 - Capítulo 21
03:35:41 - 22 - Capítulo 22
03:55:48 - 23 - Capítulo 23
Nesse Romance Naturalista, Aluísio Azevedo, autor de origem maranhense, expõe as nuances comportamentais da classe menos privilegiada da sociedade carioca no final do século XIX. A miséria, a falta de escrúpulos e a exploração humana são alguns dos pontos trabalhados pelo escritor nessa obra até hoje influente, lida por estudantes e cobrada em exames para ingresso nas principais Universidades brasileiras. (Summary by Adriana Sacciotto)
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Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams by Annie DENTON CRIDGE (1825 - 1875)
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Fantastic Fiction, Satire
Read by: Elsie Selwyn, Louise J. Belle, Anita Sloma-Martinez, Jeff Burke, Kathleen Moore, Lucretia B., TriciaG in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Dream Number One
00:15:11 - 02 - Dream Number Two
00:35:21 - 03 - Dream Number Three
00:56:00 - 04 - Dream Number Four
01:10:05 - 05 - Dream Number Five
01:27:16 - 06 - Dream Number Six
01:48:18 - 07 - Dream Number Seven
02:05:44 - 08 - Dream Number Eight
02:30:03 - 09 - Dream Number Nine
'Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams' is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first seven dreams, she visits the planet Mars, finding a society where traditional sex roles and stereotypes are reversed. The narrator witnesses the oppression of the men on Mars and their struggle for equality. In the last two dreams, the narrator visits a future United States ruled by a woman president. (Summary by Jeff Burke)
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Theodoric the Goth by Thomas HODGKIN (1831 - 1913)
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Antiquity
Read by: Patrick Eaton in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 15 - Chapter 14: Theodoric's Tomb
00:17:22 - 16 - Chapter 15: Amalasuentha
00:59:34 - 17 - Chapter 16: Belisarius
01:41:49 - 18 - Chapter 17: Totila
02:13:58 - 19 - Chapter 18: Narses
02:30:47 - 20 - Chapter 19: The Theodoric of Saga Part 1
03:24:46 - 21 - Chapter 19: The Theodoric of Saga Part 2
Theodoric the Great (~454-526) was king of the Ostrogoths during the time of the terminal decline of the Western Roman Empire. After wandering with his people through the Balkans, at times allied with the Eastern Empire, and at others, its enemy, he was invited by the Emperor Zeno to invade and conquer Italy on behalf of the Empire. He defeated the Germanic king Odovacar, who had himself deposed the last Emperor of the West, and established the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy. He became known as 'King of the Goths and Romans in Italy', ruling according to the principle of civilitas. His reign was a time of stability and prosperity. ( Patrick Eaton)
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Song (Poe version) by Edgar Allan POE (1809 - 1849)
Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Read by: David Lawrence, Ezwa, Algy Pug, Jason Mills, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, mikeinfl, ravenotation, tmckenny in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Song - Read by DL
00:00:59 - 02 - Song - Read by EZWA
00:02:01 - 03 - Song - Sung by EZWA
00:04:08 - 04 - Song - Read by GHS
00:05:10 - 05 - Song - Read by JCM
00:06:15 - 06 - Song - Read by LAH
00:07:17 - 07 - Song - Read by LLW
00:08:24 - 08 - Song - Read by MG
00:09:18 - 09 - Song - Read by RN
00:10:29 - 10 - Song - Read by TWM
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011.Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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White Fang (Version 2) by Jack LONDON (1876 - 1916)
Genre(s): General Fiction
Read by: Mark F. Smith in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 24 - Part 5, Ch 4 - The Call of Kind
00:14:13 - 25 - Part 5, Ch 5 - The Sleeping Wolf
When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to explore and learn laws of the Wild. But then his mother is caught and held by old memories of a past relationship with Man, and White Fang follows her into service with the Indians. Life among sled dogs is hardly less cruel and dangerous than living in the Wild, but brutality notches upward when his drunken master sells him to a nasty, twisted hanger-on at a riverside town of white men. He is stripped of everything soft and gentle when forced to fight to the death for a crowd of bettors.Taming this savage spirit and reclaiming the nobility within looks impossible. Fortunately, and heart-warmingly, a man arrives in White Fang's life to try.'White Fang' is often called the mirror image of Jack London's acclaimed 'The Call of the Wild' in which a dog follows the reverse arc from tame to free. (summary by Mark)
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Version 2) by L. Frank BAUM (1856 - 1919)
Genre(s): General
Read by: Phil Chenevert in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - The Earthquake
00:08:56 - 02 - 02 - The Glass City
00:29:09 - 03 - 03 - The Arrival of the Wizard
00:45:23 - 04 - 04 - The Vegetable Kingdom
00:57:07 - 05 - 05 - Dorothy Picks the Princess
01:09:56 - 06 - 06 - The Mangaboos Prove Dangerous
01:21:15 - 07 - 07 - Into the Black Pit and Out Again
01:28:52 - 08 - 08 - The Valley of Voices
01:39:23 - 09 - 09 - They Fight the Invisible Bears
01:56:27 - 10 - 10 - The Braided Man of Pyramid Mt
02:06:46 - 11 - 11 - They Meet the Wooden Gargoyles
02:21:13 - 12 - 12 - A Wonderful Escape
02:37:45 - 13 - 13 - The Den of the Dragonettes
02:51:13 - 14 - 14 - Ozma Uses the Magic Belt
03:08:06 - 15 - 15 - Old Friends Are Reunited
03:26:45 - 16 - 16 - Jim, the Cab-Horse
03:41:03 - 17 - 17 - The Nine Tiny Piglets
03:55:43 - 18 - 18 - The Trial of Eureka, the Kitten
04:05:23 - 19 - 19 - The Wizard Performs Another Trick
04:18:19 - 20 - 20 - Zeb Returns to the Ranch
Dorothy is swallowed by an earthquake! And that is just the start of Dorothy's adventures in this exciting and fun book. She and her kitten, Eureka are on their way home and stop to visit a relative in California. But the earthquake opens the ground under their feet and everyone, including the horse and buggy and her cousin Zeb fall deep, deep into the earth. Down there they find they can walk on air, but are attacked by the strange and dangerous vegetable creatures. But who should drop in but Dorothy's old friend the Wizard of Oz with 9 tiny piglets! And all the animals can talk! From there the adventure really begins to get strange but in the end all is well when Ozma rescues them but I won't tell you how. Whew! what an exciting book! (Summary by Phil Chenevert)
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Kasperl in der Türkei by Franz Graf von POCCI (1807 - 1876)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Plays
Read by: in German
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Erster Akt
00:11:01 - 02 - Zweiter Akt, Dramatis Personae
Franz Graf von Pocci, der „Kasperlgraf' verfasste mehr als 40 Kasperlstücke für das Marionettentheater mit Themen aus der Märchen- und Sagenwelt sowie Beiträge für die Münchener Bilderbogen. Seine Kasperlgeschichten ranken sich um den Kasperl Larifari, der jedoch kein netter Held, sondern eine eher ambivalente Figur ist. Larifari weist auch dunkle Seiten auf und ist als ein nie erwachsen gewordener Erwachsener zu verstehen. Er hat nie die Chance, in einer intakten Familie aufzuwachsen und wird zum Blender, Trickser und Narzissten. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia und Elli)
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel DEFOE (c.1660 - 1731)
Genre(s): Romance
Read by: Denny Sayers (d. 2015), miette, Nocturna, JemmaBlythe, Kristin LeMoine, Chip, Elizabeth Palmer, Nikolle Doolin, chriss the girl, Kirsten Ferreri in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Preface
00:15:06 - 02 - My true name is so well known...
00:43:38 - 03 - Thus far I have had a smooth story to tell...
01:06:54 - 04 - But things did not end here...
01:38:17 - 05 - I was reduced very low indeed...
02:19:31 - 06 - I loved the company indeed of men of mirth...
02:59:38 - 07 - But I come now to my own case...
03:29:41 - 08 - I was now the most unhappy of all women...
04:11:59 - 09 - When I parted with my brother...
04:37:17 - 10 - We lived thus near two years...
05:06:47 - 11 - I was now a single person again...
05:34:25 - 12 - I came the next evening...
06:08:50 - 13 - He rose before me in the morning...
06:54:29 - 14 - While I was here, and before I was brought to bed...
07:35:22 - 15 - The first sensible reflect I made...
08:29:32 - 16 - My comrade, having the brand of an old offender...
09:06:26 - 17 - With all these fine compliments we parted...
09:44:44 - 18 - I had dressed myself up in a very mean habit...
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated. - Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll. The full title of the novel tells part of its story: 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.' (Summary from Wikipedia)
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