![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | "In a Cellar", Part 1 - Harriet Prescott Spofford
Harriet Prescott Spofford's first published story is a mystery of Parisians, diplomacy, and diamonds. You'll never believe it was written in 1859!
Keywords: Audiobook - Fiction; Mystery
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| "In a Cellar", Part 2 - Harriet Prescott Spofford
Our diplomat detective is still desperate to detect that diamond, in this daring drama with a very different denouement. Do enjoy!
Keywords: Audiobook - Fiction; Mystery
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| I Am Goya, Andrei Voznesensky - Falstaff
Keywords: Poetry English Russian Voznesensky, Andrey Andreyevich (Tr. by Stanley Kunitz)
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| I Colloqui - Guido Gozzano
LibriVox recording of I Colloqui by Guido Gozzano. Read by Sergio Baldelli. Abbandonati gli studi giuridici nel 1908 [Gozzano] si dedica completamente alla poesia e nel 1911 pubblica il suo più importante libro, I colloqui, i cui componimenti sono divisi, secondo un progetto ben preciso, in tre sezioni: Il giovenile errore, Alle soglie, Il reduce. Il successo avuto con I colloqui valse a Gozzano una grande richiesta di collaborazione giornalistica con importanti riviste e quotidiani, come La St...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; poetry; poesia
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| I Come and Stand at Every Door, Nazim Hikmet - Hema Manicka
Keywords: Poetry Turkish English, Hikmet, Nazim
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| I Do Not Love Thee - Caroline Norton
Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 2, 2006: I Do Not Love Thee, by Caroline Norton. For information about our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/i-do-not-love-thee-by-caroline-norton/ For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| I Malavoglia - Giovanni Verga
LibriVox recording of I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga. Read by Lisa Caputo. I Malavoglia è il titolo del romanzo più conosciuto dello scrittore siciliano Giovanni Verga, pubblicato a Milano dall'editore Treves nel 1881. Il romanzo narra la storia di una famiglia di pescatori che vive e lavora ad Aci Trezza, un piccolo paese siciliano nei pressi di Catania. Il romanzo ha un'impostazione corale, e rappresenta personaggi uniti dalla stessa cultura ma divisi dalle loro diverse scelte di vita, sover...
Keywords: librivox; verisimo; sicilia
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| I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2013. This poem is taken from Book 4 of Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry which Whitman would continue editing and revising until his death. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this r...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; nature; philosophy |
| I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red - Joseph Mary Plunkett
LibriVox recording of I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red, by Joseph Mary Plunkett. LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for February 8th, 2009. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; poetry; plunkett; religion
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| I Say No - Wilkie Collins
LibriVox recording of I Say No, by Wilkie Collins. Read by volunteer readers. Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman. However, one of them is lying to her after she discovers that her father's death wasn't natural, as she was led to believe...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; fiction; mystery; romance; suicide; murder; orphans
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| I see His Blood upon the Rose - Joseph Mary Plunkett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of I see His Blood upon the Rose by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 9th, 2008. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/i-see-his-blood-upon-the-rose-by-joseph-mary-plunkett/. For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| I Stepped from Plank to Plank - Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of I Stepped from Plank to Plank by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her r...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; instruction; philosophy; nature
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| I think continually of those who were truly great, Stephen Spender - Falstaff
Keywords: Poetry English Spender, Stephen
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| I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud - William Wordsworth
Librivox recording of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth. This was the weekly poetry project for 14 May 2006. Spring's flowers come and go all too quickly, but Wordsworth's classic poem reminds us that their blessings last. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; audio book; wordsworth; poetry; daffodils; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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| I Was A Teen-Age Secret Weapon - Richard Sabia
LibriVox recording of I Was A Teen-Age Secret Weapon, by Richard Sabia. Read by Phil Chenevert Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be liked and to help, yet he seems to be blamed for every accident that ever happens to anyone in the University research facility where he 'works' as a porter...
Keywords: science fiction; SF; librivox; audiobook; secret weapon
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| I Will Repay - Baroness Orczy
LibriVox recording of I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy. Read by Annie Kirkpatrick This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.(Summary by Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for t...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; Scarlet Pimpernel; adventure; French Revolution; historical fiction
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| I'm Nobody - Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible versions of it. There is a great deal of discussion among academics as to which she preferred. Only one version forms part of this collection. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 18th, 2007. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/im-nobody-by-emily-dickinson/.(Summary by Karen Savage)...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; dickinson
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| Iakobou - Stephanos 1550
Librivox recording of Ιακώβου from the Bible, Stephanos 1550 Version. Read by peaceuntoyou. Aπευθύνεται στις δώδεκα διασκορπισμένες φυλές του Ισραήλ και σε όλους όσους πιστεύουν στο όνομα του Κυρίου μας Ιησού Χριστού. Είναι μια σειρά προτροπών και ενθαρρύνσεων , που σχετίζεται άμεσα με την επί όρους ομιλία...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; Bible; Βίβλος; James; Ιακώβου; Επιστολή Ιακώβου; Καινή Διαθήκη; New Testament; James the Just; works; faith
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| Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War - Ambrose Bierce
LibriVox recording of Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War, by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp. At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; history; memoirs; war stories
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| Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen - Wilhelm von Humboldt
Librivox recording of Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen by Wilhem von Humboldt. Read by redaer. Ein klassicher Text des deutschen Liberalismus (Summary by redaer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; liberalism; Liberalismus; German; Deutsch; philosophy; Philosophie; politics; Politik
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| Idle Ideas in 1905 - Jerome, Jerome K.
LibriVox recording of Idle Ideas in 1905, by Jerome K. Jerome. Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should Soldiers Be Polite?" and "Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?". Each subject is analysed and commented on in the witty and satirical style we've grown to expect from the author. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; humor
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| Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
LibriVox public domain recording of Jerome K. Jerome's Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow read by Czechchris Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and helped establish him as a leading English humorist. The book consists of 14 independent articles arranged by themes. (Summary from Wikipedia) M4B audiobook of complete book For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; humor; essays
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| Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LibriVox recording of Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom. The whole work recounts Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to pow...
Keywords: librivox; audio; poetry; tennyson; arthur; camelot; guinevere
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| If - Rudyard Kipling
Librivox recording of If, by Rudyard Kipling. For information about our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/if-by-rudyard-kipling/ Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain's favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995. (Summary from Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org...
Keywords: librivox; poem; public domain; audiobook; poetry; kipling
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| If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd, John Keats - Falstaff
Keywords: Poetry English Keats, John
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| If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking - Emily Dickinson
LibriVox recording of If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, by Emily Dickinson. LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 27th, 2010. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; poetry; dickinson
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| If Winter Comes - A. S. M. Hutchinson
LibriVox recording of If Winter Comes by A. S. M. Hutchinson. Read by KirksVoice If Winter Comes, was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide. According to the New York Times, "If Winter Comes" was the best-selling book in the United States for all of 1922. ( Summary by Wikipedia ) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; fiction; romance; best-sellers; marriage; divorce; unwed mother; suicide
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| If Winter Don't - Barry Pain
LibriVox recording of If Winter Don't by Barry Pain. Read by Nigel Boydell. Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'. We follow the professional and marital decline of long suffering (and loving it), Luke Sharper, as his marriage to Mabel flounders while his love for Jona flourishes. It could only end in tears.....Or could it? ( Summary by Nigel Boydell ) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; parody; Luke Sharper; public domain; humor
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| If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed (The Merchant of Venice (Act 3, Scene 1) ), William Shakespeare - Mystery Cat
Keywords: Poetry English Shakespeare, William
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| Il etait une fois... - 001 (contes pour enfants) - Various
Il était une fois... - 001 (contes pour enfants), anciennement dénommé Contes et histoires préférés des enfants - 001, lu pour Librivox par Caroline Sophie, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Ezwa, Kalynda, ani poirier, Fanny RW et Stanley. Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, les frères Grimm: autant d’auteurs d’exception dont les contes et autres histoires ont captivé des générations d’enfants, petits et grands...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; livre audio; littérature; français; French; contes; tales; fairy tales; folk tales; Jacob et Wilhelm Grimm; Charles Perrault; Hans Christian Andersen; Madame d'Aulnoy; Tom Pouce; Chaperon rouge; princess; pois; bouillie; chat botté; Cendrillon; canard; grand-duc; Brême; oiseau bleu; frère; soeur; sœur; soldat de plomb; il était une fois; once upon a time
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| Il Fu Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
LibriVox recording of Il Fu Mattia Pascal, by Luigi Pirandello. Read by Riccardo Fasol. [paste description from database here. Remove all tags and use carriage returns to add vertical space where necessary] For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; pirandello; fiction; literature; italian, letteratura
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| Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca - Vamba (a.k.a. Luigi Bertelli)
LibriVox recording of Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca, by Vamba (Luigi Bertelli), read by LibriVox volunteers, proofed by Diana Majlinger, coordinated by Riccardo Fasol, and produced by Karen Merline. Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca is a novel sited in Tuscany (Italy). It was written by Vamba (Luigi Bertelli’s pseudonym) in 1907 and published in 1912. The first edition was published on instalments by the newspaper Il Giornalino della Domenica, between 1907 and 1908...
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| Il ritratto del diavolo - Anton Giulio Barrili
LibriVox recording of IL RITRATTO DEL DIAVOLO, by Anton Giulio Barrili. Read by Riccardo Fasol. Barrili, in questo romanzo pubblicato nel 1905, prendendo spunto da un episodio narrato da Giorgio Vasari, ci narra la vicenda del pittore Spinello Spinelli (detto Spinello Aretino). Non spaventi né l'ambientazione trecentesca né l'aria da romanzo storico (essendo alcuni personaggi esistiti realmente, sebbene, poi, ciò che viene messo in scena sia in gran parte frutto della fantasia dell'autore) e ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; barrili; il ritratto del diavolo
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| Il était une fois... - 002 (contes pour enfants) - Various
Il était une fois... - 002 (contes pour enfants), lu pour Librivox par Caroline Sophie, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Ezwa, jbcampo, Kalynda, Kaviraf et Nathalie Mussard. Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault et les frères Grimm, pour ne nommer que ceux-là : autant d’auteurs d’exception dont les contes et autres histoires ont captivé des générations d’enfants, petits et grands. Dans le second volume de cette collection d’histoires et de contes préférés des enfants, vous découvrirez...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; livre audio; littérature; français; French; contes; tales; fairy tales; folk tales; Jacob et Wilhelm Grimm; Charles Perrault; Hans Christian Andersen; Leon Tolstoi; Leon Tolstoï; Claudius Ferrand; Franz de Zeltner; Karl Ewald; Claus; ours; roitelet; trois frères; 3 frères; Riquet à la houppe; gnomes; présent; present; aiguille à repriser; araignée; araignee; puce; Jean le Chanceux; malle volante; Belle au bois dormant; reine des abeilles; lièvre; hérisson; plume; encrier; juge habile; Koli; terre; comète; Ourashima Taro; déesse de l'océan; deesse de l'ocean
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| Ilias - Homer
LibriVox recording of Ilias, by Homer. Read by Redaer. This reading is in German. Ilias von Homer(vermutlich gegen Ende des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.). Translated by: Johann Heinrich Voß (1751-1826). Language: German (Deutsch) Ein herrliches Epos, welches viele Erkenntnisse über die menschliche Natur beinhaltet. Gilt als das älteste erhaltene Werk der abendländischen Literatur. Voß übersetzte das den Streit zwischen Agamemnon und Achilleus im Trojanischen Krieg erzählende Werk 1793 aus dem ...
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; Literature; Literatur; German; Deutsch; Ilias; Iliad; Homer; Johann Heinrich Voß
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| Illuminations - Arthur Rimbaud
LibriVox recording of Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud. Read by Jc Guan. Illuminations include some autobiographical allusions to his voyant (visionary) period, which began in 1869; but Illuminations is neither a confession nor an apology. Its several dozen short prose works and two free-verse poems transcend prose grammar by allowing their words to drift away from their dictionary definitions. Ever-elusive, relentless, overflowing with sinuous cadences, Illuminations transcends Une Saison en En...
Keywords: french; poem; romantic
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| Illusion of Grey
William F. DeVault performs his romantic piece "Illusion of Grey" with synthesized guitar accompaniment for the launch of Radio City of Legends.
Keywords: city of legends; poets; poems; poetry; american poets; american poetry; romantic poetry; william f. devault; city of legends
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| Im Herzen von Afrika - Georg Schweinfurth
LibriVox recording in German of "Im Herzen von Afrika", by Georg Schweinfurth. Read by Dirk Weber. Schweinfurth trat 1868 im Auftrag der Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin eine große Reise nach Afrika an. 1869 reiste er von Khartum aus nilaufwärts nach Faschoda und nach dem Gebiet der Dschur. Mit Sklavenjägern immer weiter vordringend, durchzog er die Länder der Bongo, Schilluk, Nuer und der Dinka, unternahm eine Reise zu den menschenfressenden Niam-Niam, besuchte das Land der Mittu und Madi und en...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; audiobuch; German; Deutsch; Afrika; Humboldt-Stiftung; Faschoda; Dschur; Niam-Niam
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| Immortality and the Unseen World - W. O. E. Oesterley
LibriVox recording of Immortality and the Unseen World, by W. O. E. Oesterley. Read by JoeD. The full title of this book is Immortality and the Unseen World - A Study in Old Testament Religion. Oesterley describes the beliefs that pre-Christian Hebrews and Semites held regarding the afterlife and the immortal nature of humans. The nature, form and evolution of these beliefs are derived from the Tanakh (Old Testament), comparisons with the beliefs and mythologies of neighboring cultures, and arch...
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; mythology; religion; anthropology
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| Impartiality - James Russell Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Impartiality by James Russell Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 16, 2011. James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; romance; philosophy
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| In a Garden - Amy Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of In a Garden by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 14th, 2007. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/in-a-garden-by-amy-lowell/. For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
LibriVox recording of In a German Pension, by Katherine Mansfield. Read by skoval The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first world war. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the Li...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Australia; Germans; fiction; short story; literature; collection
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| In a North Country Village - M. E. Francis
LibriVox recording of In a North Country Village, by M. E. Francis. Read by Phil Benson. M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant village in England, which lies a few miles north of Liverpool. Blundell died young and Mary went on to write more than 50 books, using her husband's Christian name as pen name, including this collection ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Lancashire dialect; village life
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| In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert Barr
LibriVox recording of In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories, by Robert Barr. Read by David Wales. Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author - publishing a book a year - and was familiar with many of the best selling authors of his day, including Bret Harte and Stephen Crane...
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; fiction; short stories; adventure stories; humor
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| In Brief Authority - F. Anstey
LibriVox recording of In Brief Authority, by F. Anstey (pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856 - 1934). Read by Anna Simon. Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough snob, is crowned Queen of the country by mistake. She is quick to accept her new position and is determined to introduce British social niceties in her realm...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; comedy; WWI; Fairy Tales
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| In Chancery (Vol. 2 of The Forsyte Saga) - John Galsworthy
Librivox recording of In Chancery (Vol. 2 of The Forsyte Saga), by John Galsworthy. 'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.In Chancery is the second book in the saga. Five years have passed since Irene left Soames and the death of Bosinney. Old Jolyon meets Irene and is enchanted by her. At his death he leaves her a legacy sufficient for her to live an independent life in Paris.Soames, who is desperate for a so...
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| In de mornin' and Jes gib him one ob mine - Edward Sterling Wright
In de mornin' & Jes gib him one ob mine Performed by: Edward Sterling Wright Written by: Paul Lawrence Dunbar Record format: Edison Blue Amberol cylinder Release number: 2235 (.3) Release date: April 1914 NPS object catalog number: EDIS 34435 ** Historical note: Edward Sterling Wright was an African-American actor educated at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. His recitations helped to introduce and popularize the works of African-American poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Keywords: Spoken Word
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| In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
LibriVox recording of In Defense of Harriet Shelley, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully noble and beautiful", Twain shows how Shelley's extra-marital conduct might easily be seen to have been the cause of his wife Harriet's suicide...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; Samuel Clemens; essays; Percy Bysshe Shelley; suicide
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| In Defense of Women - H.L Mencken
LibriVox recording of In Defense of Women, by H.L. Mencken. Read by ML Cohen. In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken didn't champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men. According to Mencken's biographer, Fred Hobson: Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great def...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; philosophy; mencken
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| In der Strafkolonie - Franz Kafka
LibriVox recording of "In der Strafkolonie", by Franz Kafka. Read in German by Markus Wachenheim. In der Strafkolonie ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die im Oktober 1914 entstand und 1919 veröffentlicht wurde. Einem Forschungsreisenden wird das Rechtssystem einer Strafkolonie vorgeführt. Es besteht darin, dass jeder Angeklagte unabhängig von seiner Schuld von einem Apparat in minutiösem Ablauf stundenlang gefoltert und dann getötet wird...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Hörbuch; German; Deutsch
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