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Librivox Audiobooks

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Free classic audio-books available, narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet. Over 40,0000 classic Audio-books as Sherlock Holmes,Pride and Prejudice,Dracula,The Time Machine in English,Spanish,German,French and 40 other variety of main spoken languages. Thanks for Listening!
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Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1

Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer, the mysterious and brooding Mr. Rochester, but he hides a terrible secret that threatens their chances of happiness. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Mar 31, 202315 hr 51 min

Hard Times

Support Us And Donate Here: ⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/ Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city's utilitarian ideals and some of whom manage to rise above it. The novel was written in 1854 and was a scathing attack on then-current ideas of utilitarianism, wh...

Mar 31, 202310 hr 55 min

Gulliver's Travels

Support Us And Donate Here: ⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/ Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.Support Us And Donate Here: ⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/...

Mar 31, 202311 hr 24 min

Ghosts By Henrik Ibsen

Support this podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/librivox1/support Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed "a dirty deed done in public" by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other things) venereal disease, euthanasia, and incest. The original title literally means "the ones who return," and the play is about how we can deal with the awful legacy of the past....

Mar 30, 20232 hr 10 min

A Modest Proposal

The originality, concentrated power and ‘fierce indignation’ of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English literature. Gulliver’s Travels is, of course, his world renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is A Modest Proposal, in which he straight-facedly suggests that Ireland could solve its hunger problem...

Mar 28, 202325 min

Treasure Island

Support Us And Donate Here: ⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/ Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now. (Summary from wikipedia.org) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Action & Adventure Language...

Feb 02, 20237 hr 29 min
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