Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of? That is a course that would have been unworthy of him, of me, and of you. No, you know it well, the proprieties and dignity are nothing any longer, when passion or necessity predominates. Did your grandmother respect the dignity of her daughter when she gave her up to a prince? - Summary by From the PlayCast list:John de Hun: John BurlinsonNourvady: Kristin GjerløwGodler: K. Adrian StroetRichard: Charlotte DuckettTrevele and Commissary of Police: ToddHWLionnette: SoniaJane and Servant: NewgatenovelistFootman and Servant: jmoon110Raoul de Hun, Age 6, and Stage Directions: TriciaGEdited by: ToddHW
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 24 by Seba Smith (1792 - 1868) and Lawrence Labree
Genre(s): Short Stories
Read by: Alan Mapstone, Jim Locke, Greg Giordano, Gini Rosario, Brize C, yourbookvoice in English
Cover design by Annise.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Manfred
00:08:42 - 02 - The Black Knight
00:37:09 - 03 - The Haunted Manor-House
01:24:21 - 04 - The First and Last Robbery
01:35:47 - 05 - Life on the Gulf of Mexico, by E. K. (Sketch III)
01:55:49 - 06 - Death at the Toilet
02:06:13 - 07 - Escape of the Duston Family
02:27:59 - 08 - The Florentine Mother
02:38:29 - 09 - Pulpit Ingenuity
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Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 2, February 1901 by VARIOUS ( - )
Genre(s): Nature
Read by: Jonathan Paul Arnold, canariette, Phil Schempf, David Lawrence, Alan LaFontaine, BettyB, tovarisch, jftocanada, Availle in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - February
00:01:11 - 02 - Frost-Work
00:02:01 - 03 - The Hawks
00:14:36 - 04 - Interesting Stone Houses
00:19:20 - 05 - The Alaskan Sparrow
00:20:40 - 06 - The Dowitcher
00:23:51 - 07 - Some Things We Might Learn From the Lower Animals
00:31:49 - 08 - The Great-Tailed Grackle
00:34:17 - 09 - The Eagle
00:34:58 - 10 - The Georgrapical Distribution of Birds
00:56:37 - 11 - The Hooded Warbler
01:00:32 - 12 - Mrs. Jane's Experiment
01:04:23 - 13 - A Stroll in the Frost King's Realm
01:09:21 - 14 - Snails of the Forest and Field
01:32:02 - 15 - The Gila Monster
01:50:22 - 16 - Bird Notes
01:51:42 - 17 - The Pomegranate
01:57:21 - 18 - Fishes and Fish-Culture Among the Greeks and Romans
02:18:03 - 19 - Cinnamon
02:24:56 - 20 - At Dusk
'Birds and Nature' was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, 'Birds,' 'Birds and All Nature,' 'Nature and Art' and 'Birds and Nature.'In June 1900, 'Birds and All Nature' was changed from 'Birds and All Nature' to 'Nature and Art' for a single issue (Vol VIII, No. 1). The title was changed again for the following issue in September 1900 to 'Birds and Nature,' and this was kept through the remaining years of publication. - Summary by J. M. Smallheer
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A Princess of Mars (Version 3) by Edgar Rice BURROUGHS (1875 - 1950)
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction, Romance
Read by: Thomas A. Copeland in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Foreword
00:07:48 - 01 - Chapter 1
00:24:21 - 02 - Chapter 2
00:35:17 - 03 - Chapter 3
00:52:13 - 04 - Chapter 4
01:06:04 - 05 - Chapter 5
01:15:42 - 06 - Chapter 6
01:25:58 - 07 - Chapter 7
01:38:52 - 08 - Chapter 8
01:51:33 - 09 - Chapter 9
02:00:39 - 10 - Chapter 10
02:23:32 - 11 - Chapter 11
02:38:30 - 12 - Chapter 12
02:51:12 - 13 - Chapter 13
03:06:31 - 14 - Chapter 14
03:27:09 - 15 - Chapter 15
03:45:45 - 16 - Chapter 16
04:09:45 - 17 - Chapter 17
04:28:32 - 18 - Chapter 18
04:38:15 - 19 - Chapter 19
04:49:24 - 20 - Chapter 20
05:10:43 - 21 - Chapter 21
05:33:51 - 22 - Chapter 22
05:56:21 - 23 - Chapter 23
06:10:29 - 24 - Chapter 24
06:28:05 - 25 - Chapter 25
06:40:20 - 26 - Chapter 26
06:55:03 - 27 - Chapter 27
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior martial abilities, and he is treated with deference by this fierce race. Falling in love with a princess of red humanoids (two-armed but egg-bearing), he contrives a daring escape and later rescues the red men from the hostility of another nation of their own race. In this struggle he enlists the aid of his former captors, whom he gradually civilizes, teaching them first the practical advantages of kindness to their beasts of burden and then of casting aside centuries of communal living in favor of the nuclear family. At last he even starts them on the path to mastering the arts of friedship and diplomacy. When the failure of the atmosphere-generator threatens the planet's inhabitants with extinction, Carter's luck, memory, and sheer determination make possible the salvation of the planet, but Carter himself falls unconscious before he knows the success of his efforts. The novel ends with his sudden involuntary return to Earth. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)
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Birds of Prey by Mary Elizabeth BRADDON (1835 - 1915)
Genre(s): Literary Fiction
Read by: KirksVoice in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Book the 1st, Part 1
00:48:27 - 02 - Book the 1st, Part 2
01:33:29 - 03 - Book the 1st, Part 3
02:13:48 - 04 - Book the 2nd, Part 1
02:32:35 - 05 - Book the 2nd, Part 2
03:18:30 - 06 - Book the 2nd, Part 3
03:57:33 - 07 - Book the 3rd, Part 1
04:19:02 - 08 - Book the 3rd, Part 2
05:04:27 - 09 - Book the 3rd, Part 3
05:39:54 - 10 - Book the 3rd, Part 4
06:07:12 - 11 - Book the 3rd, Part 5
06:44:09 - 12 - Book the 3rd, Part 6
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This book is the first of a two part story, the second part is the book Charlotte's Inheritance.
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Rimas Versión 2 by Gustavo Adolfo BÉCQUER (1836 - 1870)
Genre(s): Single author
Read by: Epachuko in Spanish
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Rimas de la I a la X
00:10:46 - 02 - Rimas de la XI a la XX
00:17:53 - 03 - Rimas de la XXI a la XXX
00:24:56 - 04 - Rimas de la XXXI a la XL
00:31:05 - 05 - Rimas de la XLI a la L
00:36:26 - 06 - Rimas de la LI a la LX
00:43:07 - 07 - Rimas de la LXI a la LXX
00:49:17 - 08 - Rimas de la LXXI a la LXXVI
Las 'Rimas' de Becquer pueden presumir de ser, probablemente, el conjunto de poemas más conocido, y recitado de memoria, por la mayoría de los hablantes de español. Poesía del Romanticismo por excelencia. - Summary by Epachuko
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The Family Kitchen Gardener by Robert Buist
Genre(s): Gardening
Read by: Bellona Times, storm, nblyleven, Kalynda, Annise, Linda Ferguson, Jennifer Stearns, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Lynne Carroll, dana-allen, Ray Smith, JenniferW in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 22 - 21 - Quince - Pepper
The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It includes the best mode of cultivating, propagating, and managing them in the garden or under glass, and a description of the best implements used in maintaining such gardens.(Summary by BellonaTimes)
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Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan LE FANU (1814 - 1873)
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction, Detective Fiction
Read by: Tina Nuzzi, Jessamy Gloor, Christine Blachford, Cate Barratt, Amy Gramour, Rachael Lapidis, Rosie, Crln Yldz Ksr, oneiros81, Lmwong, Dianne Lanning, Debra Lynn in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 36 - 36 - The Ball Room
00:17:53 - 37 - 37 - The Supper-Room
00:28:41 - 38 - 38 - After The Ball
00:48:07 - 39 - 39 - In Which Miss Rachel Lake Comes To Brandon, And Doctor Buddle Calls Again
01:05:45 - 40 - 40 - The Attorney's Adventures On The Way Home
01:16:55 - 41 - 41 - In Which Sir Francis Seddley Manipulates
01:26:47 - 42 - 42 - A Paragraph In The County Paper
01:39:31 - 43 - 43 - An Evil Eye Looks On The Vicar
01:53:09 - 44 - 44 - In Which Old Tamar Lifts Up Her Voice In Prophecy
02:03:35 - 45 - 45 - Deep And Shallow
02:16:22 - 46 - 46 - Debate And Interruption
02:31:11 - 47 - 47 - A Threatening Notice
02:51:33 - 48 - 48 - In Which I Go To Brandon, And See An Old Acquaintance In The Tapestry Room
03:15:32 - 49 - 49 - Larcom, The Butler, Visits The Attorney
03:26:58 - 50 - 50 - New Lights
03:41:24 - 51 - 51 - A Fracas In The Library
03:55:29 - 52 - 52 - An Old Friend Looks Into The Garden At Redman's Farm
04:12:02 - 53 - 53 - The Vicar's Complications, Which Lively People Had Better Not Read
04:22:31 - 54 - 54 - Brandon Chapel On Sunday
04:37:50 - 55 - 55 - The Captain And The Attorney Converse Among The Tombs
04:53:18 - 56 - 56 - The Brandon Conservatory
05:08:18 - 57 - 57 - Concerning A New Danger Which Threatened Captain Stanley Lake
05:23:53 - 58 - 58 - Miss Rachel Lake Becomes Violent
05:46:11 - 59 - 59 - An Enemy In Redman's Dell
06:04:04 - 60 - 60 - Rachel Lake Before The Accuser
06:20:33 - 61 - 61 - In Which Dame Dutton Is Visited
06:35:07 - 62 - 62 - The Captain Explains Why Mark Wylder Absconded
06:48:29 - 63 - 63 - The Ace Of Hearts
The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But to where? And how will the people around him react to his disappearance? (Summary by Miss Stav and LibriFoxy)
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The Death Ship by William Clark RUSSELL (1844 - 1911)
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Read by: saloni, Gloria Begemann, Linda Johnson, Acacia Wood, Mark Nelson, Honnha Newberry in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 30 - The Dead Helmsman
00:07:33 - 31 - The Dutch Sailors board the Wreck
00:21:02 - 32 - The Dutchmen obtain Refreshments
00:34:07 - 33 - My Life is attempted
00:50:13 - 34 - My Sweetheart's Joy
01:14:45 - 35 - We tell our Love again
01:23:17 - 36 - We sight a Sail
01:39:00 - 37 - The Death Ship is boarded by a Pirate
02:10:16 - 38 - My Life is again attempted
02:28:18 - 39 - A Tempest bursts upon us
03:01:26 - 40 - We spring a Leak
03:20:21 - 41 - Imogene fears for me
03:40:42 - 42 - Land
03:57:57 - 43 - We bring up in a Bay
04:26:40 - 44 - The Weather helps my Scheme
04:43:45 - 45 - My Poor Darling
05:06:48 - 46 - I am alone
William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy. This is one of the finest examples of his maritime ghost stories.Everyone knows the story of the ghostly ship, the Flying Dutchman, which is cursed and doomed to sail the seven seas forever, bringing destruction to anyone crossing its path. Geoffrey Fenton, narrator of this story, is one of those unlucky persons who do cross this ship's path, and who even gets captured by it. When he finds himself on the famous Death Ship, the adventure of his life begins, including deadly storms, pirates, and a very particular beautiful damsel in distress. - Summary by Carolin
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Ardath by Marie CORELLI (1855 - 1924)
Genre(s): Fantastic Fiction
Read by: Lisa Statler, Jim Locke in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 28 - The Sacrifice
00:25:57 - 29 - The Cup of Wrath and Trembling
01:05:35 - 30 - Sunrise
01:53:49 - 31 - Fresh Laurels
02:25:28 - 32 - Zabastesism and Paulism
03:00:50 - 33 - Realism
03:32:43 - 34 - Rewards of Fame
03:56:49 - 35 - One Against Many
04:44:00 - 36 - Heliobas
05:24:18 - 37 - A Missing Record
06:00:10 - 38 - The Wizard of the Bow
06:29:01 - 39 - By the Rhine
06:55:33 - 40 - In the Cathedral
Victorian-era writer Marie Corelli's epic work Ardath, The Story of a Dead Self, is filled with supernatural and gothic themes. We meet Theos Alwyn, an atheist poet who is lost and disconsolate with life. He begins his journey by seeking out a monastery in the Caucasus mountains; his spiritual quest then takes him to the mythical field of Ardath, which becomes a door into a dream of another version of his self that transcends space and time. - Summary by Lisa Statler
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