The Milky Way by F. Tennyson JESSE (1888 - 1958) Genre(s): Published 1900 onward Read by: Grant Hurlock in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 26 - 26 - We 'Leap Screaming' 00:18:56 - 27 - 27 - 'Seals of Love, But Sealed in Vain' 00:27:38 - 28 - 28 - Abroad 00:45:29 - 29 - 29 - A Skeleton out of the Cupboard 01:02:02 - 30 - 30 - I Get Me to a Nunnery 01:21:41 - 31 - 31 - Mostly on Food and Money 01:40:05 - 32 - 32 - I Begin to Understand 02:02:11 - 33 - 33 - Via Amoris - (1) The Court of Love 02:34:55 - 34 - 34 - Via Amoris - (2) Aucassin and Nicolete 03:04:50 - 35 - 35 - Via Amoris - (3) Petrarch and Laura 03:30:44 - 36 - 36 - The World Obtrudes Itself 03:53:15 - 37 - 37 - The View from the Attic The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel - began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky Cornish painter/model Vivian Lovel recounts events of her twenty-first year: en route from Penzance to London by steamer, she catches a baby dropped over the side of a sinking ship - and decides to keep it. Penniless, however, she 'platonically' pairs up with pan-like fellow passenger Peter Whymperis, an actor and aspiring writer, and together they find work with a fifth-rate repertory troupe. Soon sacked, they nevertheless leave with money enough to buy milk for the baby. They then spend a night locked in a wax museum devoted to notorious murders and later trace a fugitive from justice to his lair. At a costume party, Viv rescues her beautiful friend Chloe from a cruel seducer, by taking her place (and his car). Viv then flits to Cornwall for a stint of modeling at an artists' colony. She's tempted to put down roots, but Peter appears, and they dance away as faun and nymph into the night. Back again in London, a publisher, whose home they invade, commissions Peter to write and Viv to illustrate a travel book about Provence, so they promptly decamp for France. While visiting the romantic locale of famous lovers Aucassin & Nicolete, Viv retells the fable so vividly to a filmmaker they meet that he decides to shoot the movie, with Aucassin played by Peter and Nicolete by - Chloe! Will Viv's faun succumb to the charms of her BFF? Or will her milky way have a honeyed end? The Milky Way is the only novel F. Tennyson Jesse completed before inadvertently touching a whirling airplane propeller with her painting/writing hand, the treatment of which left her with fewer fingers and a lifelong opiate addiction. Subsequently, she turned to crime - writing much about murders such as those that terrified Viv in the wax museum - and her later novels seem just a bit darker, harder, more impersonal and less ingenuous than this jeu d'esprit which was her first. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock) More information: http://librivox.org/the-milky-way-by-f-tennyson-jesse/

A Jewish State by Theodor HERZL (1860 - 1904) Genre(s): Political Science Read by: Adrian Praetzellis in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Editor's Preface 00:22:26 - 02 - Author's Preface 00:31:03 - 03 - Chap 1 Introduction 00:59:55 - 04 - Chap 2, part 1 The Jewish Question 01:17:37 - 05 - Chap 2, part 2 01:36:19 - 06 - Chap 2, part 3 01:52:32 - 07 - Chap 2, part 4 02:12:54 - 08 - Chap 3 Local Groups 02:42:05 - 09 - Chap 4 Society of Jews & the Jewish State 03:20:22 - 10 - Chap 5 Conclusion Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discussion of 'the Jewish Question' so it would 'no longer take the form of violent abuse or sentimental vindication but of a debate, practical, large, earnest, and political.' While few of Herzl's proposals were actually carried out, the importance of A JEWISH STATE was in the groundswell of support for a Jewish homeland engendered by its solutions to the practical problems of establishing a new state. In the words of a contemporary, '[Herzl] made it seem possible.' Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl (1860-1904) was a Hungarian writer, political economist, and Jewish activist. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis) More information: http://librivox.org/a-jewish-state-by-theodor-herzl/