LibriVox presents a get into the festive spirit to bring you this year's selection of carols and Christmas music - both sacred and secular. 01 Boar’s Head Carol (Que’s College, Oxford version) Ruth Golding 02 Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella Emma Joyce 03 Gaudete (from Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish/Swedish sacred songs 1582) Paul C. Newman 04 Good King Wceslas John Mason Neale Kara Shallberg 05 The Holly and the Ivy Traditional glish Carol Kara Shallberg 06 I Heard the Bells Hry Wadsw...
Dec 12, 2023•43 min
Support Us And Donate Here: https://libri-vox.org/donate/ Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Translated by Eugène Tardieu (1881 - 1918) "Le Portrait de Dorian Gray" fut écrit et publié par Oscar Wilde en 1890 et révisé en 1891. Touchant des sujets philosophiques et fantastiques, Wilde révèle le côté décadent de l'époque Victorienne, touchant même au Satanisme, avec le jeune Dorian Gray, qui rend son âme à un portrait de lui-même, afin de ne jamais vieillir. En effet, Dorian reste toujours jeune, mais...
Dec 11, 2023•8 hr 51 min
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) Translated by Jessie Lemont (1862 - 1947) A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer than some modern texts, this selection, which spans early and later writings and includes a preface refreshingly focused on the poet's artistic development, provides a nice entrée into Rilke's world. (Summary by Eva Davis) Genre(s): Single author Language: English...
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a sequence of loosely-related adventures. Its main literary value and appeal is formed by its numerous unforgettable heroes. Each personage in The Pickwick Papers (just as in many other Dickens' novels) is drawn comically, often with exaggerated features of character. (Wikipedia) ...
Dec 08, 2023•29 hr 44 min
Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE) Translated by Thomas Taylor (1758 - 1835) Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite, causation, motion, time and the Prime Mover. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards) Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), *Non-fiction, Nature Language: English
Dec 07, 2023•9 hr 39 min
Shantideva (8th Cent. - 8th Cent.) Translated by Lionel David Barnett (1871 - 1960) Shantideva is particularly renowned as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara (sometimes also called the Bodhisattvacaryavatara). An English translation of the Sanskrit version of the Bodhicaryavatara is available online, as well as in print in a variety of translations, sometimes glossed as "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life" or "Entering the Path of Enlightenment." It is a long poem describing the process of...
Dec 03, 2023•2 hr 34 min
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains Lawrence J. Burpee (1873 - 1946) This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of La Verendryes' quest for an overland route to the Pacific Ocean. (Summary by Esther) Genre(s): Early Modern, Exploration Language: English Group: Chronicles of Canada Series
Dec 02, 2023•2 hr 10 min
LibriVox selection of traditional Christmas carols, hymns and songs in English, French, German, Greek, Italian and Ukrainian. We wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas. English: All Children are on Christmas Eve - Words & Music: Rev. Charles L. Hutchins (1838-1920). Angels from the Realms of Glory - Words: James Montgomery (1771-1854); Music: Henry T. Smart (1813-1879). Angels We Have Heard on High - Words: French Carol, trans. James Chadwick (1813-1882). Music: 'Gloria' French carol me...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, a rich dust contractor, in his will. To receive the money, John must marry a certain Bella Wilfer who he does not know from Eve. He is returning from the exile enforced by his father and confides in a ship's mate who attempts to murder him. The mate gets killed instead, leaving one inconvenient corpse. Because John is considered...
Nov 30, 2023•35 hr 6 min
Support Us And Donate Here: https://libri-vox.org/donate/ Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831) Translated by J. J. Graham (1808 - 1883) A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing statements and then draws them together to describe many facets of war. Free of technical jargon, and suitable for modern readers. This audiobook is based on a 1909 English translation. In section 2, the reader Timothy Fer...
Nov 27, 2023•10 hr 52 min
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BCE) Translated by Harris Rackham (1868 - 1944) On the Ends of Good and Evil (Latin: DE FINIBUS BONORUM ET MALORUM) discusses Skeptic, Epicurean, Stoic, Peripatetic and Academic views on the good life. Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Harris Rackham. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards) Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Ancient Language: English
Nov 26, 2023•8 hr 7 min
Sophocles (497 BCE - 406 BCE) Translated by Francis Storr (1839 - 1919) Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence. Cast: Oedipus: Andy Minter Priest of ...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Homer (c. 8th cen - c. 8th cen) Translated by George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634) The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, possibly at Smyrna. The events described are thought to have occurred centuries before being recorded by Homer, handed down orally since the twelfth century BCE, the golden era of the Greek Bronze Age when t...
Nov 23, 2023•14 hr 42 min
Homer (c. 8th cen - c. 8th cen) Translated by Johann Heinrich Voß (1751 - 1826) Odyssee von Homer (vermutlich gegen Ende des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.) Ein Meisterwerk. Gilt als eines der ältesteten erhaltenen Werke der abendländischen Literatur. Voß übersetzte das die Erlebnisse des Odysseus und seiner Gefährten auf der Heimfahrt nach dem Trojanischen Krieg erzählende Epos aus dem Altgriechischen ins Deutsche (erschienen 1781). Aufgrund dieses Werkes bezeichnet man im Deutschen mit Odyssee, wie m...
Nov 22, 2023•28 hr 45 min
Support our Podcasts: https://libri-vox.org/donate In both the play and the novel, Peter often visits the "real world" of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim his shadow, he wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. When Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, Peter takes a fancy to her and invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang of Lost Bo...
Nov 21, 2023•5 hr 31 min
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Translated by Friedrich Seybold (1829 - 1888) Auch bekannt als 'Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'. Der Roman beinhaltet mehrere Handlungsstränge, die nach und nach ineinanderfließen und ein buntes und vielseitiges Bild des französischen Spätmittelalters mit all seinen Bevölkerungsschichten zeichnen. Die Geschichte vom missgestalteten Glöckner Quasimodo, der sich in die schöne Zigeunerin Esmeralda verliebt, ist nur einer dieser Stränge. Der Poet und Philosoph Peter Gringoire ...
Nov 20, 2023•13 hr 6 min
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Translated by Anthony Mario Ludovici (1882 - 1971) A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German culture and society. The translator provides a detailed introduction. -
Nov 17, 2023•3 hr
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether in trade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families and individuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristine strength and freedom. (Fr...
Nov 16, 2023•5 hr 43 min
The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".
Nov 15, 2023•3 hr 46 min
Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateAs far as anyone has been able to establish, Will Clemens was NOT related to Sam Clemens (Mark Twain), though they did become acquaintances. The 200-page biography Will Clemens wrote and published himself may have been the earliest full-length study of MT. It was published July 1,1892 as "No. 1" in a paperback series called "The Pacific Library," price 25¢, and did well enough to be republished in 1894 by a publisher in Chicago. Throughout the boo...
Nov 13, 2023•4 hr 33 min
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Ba...
Nov 12, 2023•2 hr 26 min
Molière (1622 - 1673) Translated by Henri van Laun (1820 - 1896) Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows - Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the play. "Those who admired noble thoughts, select language, accurate deliniations of character, and a perfect and entertaining style, placed this comedy from the very beginning where it is gen...
Nov 11, 2023•2 hr 11 min
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - the interested reader is directed to Wittgenstein's preface and to the introduction of Wittgenstein's teacher, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - upon these no author could measurably improve. - (Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind)
Nov 10, 2023•3 hr 56 min
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4), us...
Nov 09, 2023•3 hr 6 min
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Translated by Wilhelm Cremer (1847 - 1932) Oscar Wildes Kunstmärchen bieten dem Leser (und Hörer) Zugang zu zauberhaften, filigran gestalteten Welten. Liebe, Leidenschaft, Aufopferung und Läuterung sind einige der vom Erzähler prachtvoll in Szene gesetzten Motive. Wildes Erzählungen spannen eine Bogen von augenzwinkernd-satirischer Gesellschaftkritik über philosophische Einsichten zu einem alles unterliegenden tiefgehenden Appell an die Menschlichkeit. (Zusammenfassung ...
Nov 08, 2023•5 hr 47 min
Pitts Sanborn (1879 - 1941) The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have only expanded the work a little by incorporating here and there matter about other major works of Beethoven’s, especially some of the concertos, overtures, piano and vocal works, besides certain of the greater specimens of his chamber music.,,, I have followed it in order to supply a rather fuller pi...
Nov 04, 2023•1 hr 37 min
Support Us And Donate Here: https://libri-vox.org/donate/ Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an isolated country estate, who believes they are being haunted. As the story progresses, the governess' increasingly frenetic narration provokes the question: is she insane, or are the ghosts real? Support Us And Donate Here: https://libri-vox.org/donate/...
Nov 03, 2023•4 hr 36 min
Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donate Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, who wants to become a writer and wishes she were born a boy. Shy and quiet, home-loving Beth, who loves to play the piano and play with her kitties. Finally, the youngest, artistic Amy, wh...
Nov 02, 2023•19 hr
Support our work: https://libri-vox.org/donateH.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon. (Summary by Mark Nelson)Support Us And Donate Here: https://libri-vox.org/don...
Nov 01, 2023•3 hr 40 min
Support our work: https://libri-vox.org/donate After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is convinced that Jekyll's relationship with Hyde is built on something sinister. Utterson's concern for his friend is not unfounded but the reasons aren't quite what he, at first, believes.
Oct 31, 2023•2 hr 50 min
