Infobox library library name LibriVox library logo Image LibriVox logo.png location Worldwide USA based ... http librivox.org LibriVox various pronunciations are accurate ref name librivoxpronunciation http ... of LibriVox , LibriVox wiki. Retrieved 21 November 2011. ref is an online digital library of free ... audiobook publisher. ref http librivox.org 2007 10 31 librivox reaches 1000 LibriVox reaches 1,000 Librivox webpage 31 October 2007. Retrieved on 1 June 2010. ref The LibriVox objective is to make ... http librivox.org about librivox About LibriVox , LibriVox website. Retrieved 24 August 2011 ... to download ref cite web url http librivox.org newcatalog stats.php title LibriVox catalog stats accessdate ... newcatalog monthly.php title LibriVox works by month accessdate 2011 08 24 ref Around ninety percent of the collection is in English language English , although LibriVox recordings are available in 33 languages altogether. History File Hugh McGuire.jpg thumb left Hugh McGuire, founder of LibriVox File LibriVox works per month including May 2011.png thumb LibriVox works per month Cquote Can ... ? author Hugh McGuire LibriVox was started in August 2005 by Montreal based writer Hugh McGuire ... url http librivox.org 2005 08 09 welcome to librivox title Welcome to LibriVox publisher LibriVox.org ... enough that the first LibriVox recording was made available in MP3 format within a month of the blog ... and eleven volunteers who had been attracted by the blog. In October 2005, LibriVox acquired its ... for the site move into the hundreds. By January 2009, over 2,000 Librivox books and short works ... the voices of nearly 4,000 volunteers from around the world. The main features of the way LibriVox ... improved by the efforts of those of its volunteers with web development skills. LibriVox etymology LibriVox is an invented word inspired by Latin. The word comes from two Latin words libri which is the nominative plural form of liber book , and vox voice . Thus, LibriVox means BookVoice . In an alternative ... more details
Orphan date April 2010 primarysources date March 2011 Infobox library library name Librophile library logo Image Librophile logo.png thumb Librophile logo location Worldwide UK based established February 2010 num branches collection size Reference 3,000 free Librivox audiobooks Feb 2010 budget 0.00 director Philip Battle num employees 1 website http librophile.com Librophile is free and for the purpose of promoting the LibriVox digital archive. Librophile provides a scrollable view of the LibriVox ref cite web url http librivox.org title Librivox Online Digital Library accessdate 2010 02 01 ref online digital library. As well as a scrollable interface, pictures from Wikipedia are used to augment the virtual bookshelves with Tooltips providing instant access to book descriptions. All the sites information is gathered using RSS feeds from its content providers. Javascript is used to provide all the site s behaviour with CSS managing all the styling. References See Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.librophile.com librophile.com Category Audiobooks ... more details
An Englishwoman s Love letters is a 1900 novel by Laurence Housman , initially published anonymously. It was a scandal in its time due to its frankness, which excitement turned to disappointment as the public learned the author was no Englishwoman. External Sites http www.gutenberg.org ebooks 15941 E book at Project Gutenberg http librivox.org an englishwomans love letters Audiobook version at LibriVox Category 1900 books ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2009 Advice to Little Girls is a humorous short story written by Mark Twain in 1867. External links gutenberg no 142 name Advice to Little Girls included in The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories http librivox.org short story collection 003 Audio Recording at LibriVox Twain Category 1867 short stories Category Short stories by Mark Twain story stub ... more details
Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery is a paper regarding antiseptic s written by Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Joseph Lister in 1867 . External links http www.fordham.edu halsall mod 1867lister.html Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery http www.archive.org details antiseptic principle surgery librivox Audio recording &mdash Internet Archive medical stub Category Antiseptics Category Medical research Category 1867 works Category Academic journal articles Category 1860s in science ... more details
Infobox Book name All the Brothers Were Valiant author Ben Ames Williams country United States genre Novel publisher The Macmillan Company release date 1919 oclc 418497 isbn All the Brothers Were Valiant was a 1919 novel by Ben Ames Williams . It was Williams first novel. ref cite book last Lloyd first James B title Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817 1967 location Jackson publisher University Press of Mississippi year 1981 pages 467 469 ref It has been adapted to film three times, all by MGM All the Brothers Were Valiant 1923 film All the Brothers Were Valiant 1923 , Across to Singapore 1928 and All the Brothers Were Valiant 1953 . References references External links gutenberg no 25885 name All the Brothers Were Valiant plain text http www.archive.org search.php?query title 3A 22All 20the 20Brothers 20Were 20Valiant 22 20AND 20mediatype 3Atexts All the Brothers Were Valiant at Internet Archive scanned books various formats http www.archive.org details brothers valiant rm librivox All the Brothers Were Valiant at LibriVox Image Speaker Icon.svg 20px DEFAULTSORT All The Brothers Were Valiant Novel Category 1919 novels Category Debut novels Category American novels adapted into films 1910s novel stub ... more details
Italic title File Principia Ethica title page.png thumb The title page of Principia Ethica Principia Ethica is a monograph by philosopher G. E. Moore , first published in 1903. It is one of the standard texts of modern ethics , and introduced the term naturalistic fallacy . wikisource Principia Ethica External links http fair use.org g e moore principia ethica etext of Principia Ethica . http librivox.org principia ethica by george edward moore Principia Ethica in audio format from LibriVox . Category Ethics literature Category Analytic philosophy literature Category 1903 books ethics stub et Principia Ethica fr Principia Ethica it Principia ethica nl Principia Ethica ... more details
Tender Buttons objects, food, rooms is the title of a 1914 book by Gertrude Stein consisting of word clusters chosen for their Prosody linguistics prosody , juxtaposed for the purpose of subverting commonplace dictionary meanings which Stein believed had largely lost their expressive force and ability to communicate. The words were re defined using both their etymology and analysis of syllables by themselves Fact date April 2008 . http www.bartleby.com 140 Tender Buttons http librivox.org tender buttons by gertrude stein Tender Buttons recording by Cori Samuel from LibriVox http blueverhey.bandcamp.com album the ridding of nouns?permalink Setting of Cori Samuel s recording to music by Blue Verhey Category Poetry by Gertrude Stein Category 1914 books Category Article Feedback 5 Poetry stub ... more details
Italic title The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton . It concerns a romance between a widow and her old lover. It was adapted into a film The Reef film The Reef in 1999 starring Sela Ward , Timothy Dalton and Alicia Witt . External links wikisource gutenberg no 283 name The Reef gutenberg no 9291 name The Reef audio book http librivox.org the reef by edith wharton The Reef audio book at http librivox.org Librivox Edith Wharton fiction DEFAULTSORT Reef, The Category 1912 novels Category 20th century American novels Category Novels by Edith Wharton Novel stub ... more details
italictitle The Diary of a Superfluous Man Dnevnik Lishnego Cheloveka is an 1850 novella by Russian author Ivan Turgenev . It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man who has a few days left to live as he recounts incidents of his life. The story has become the archetype for the Russian literary concept of the superfluous man . External links http www.archive.org search.php?query creator 3ATurgenev 20 28title 3ASuperfluous 20Man 20OR 20description 3ASuperfluous 20Man 29 20AND 20mediatype 3Atexts The Diary of a Superfluous Man , at Internet Archive scanned books multiple formats http www.archive.org details diary superfluous man 0904 librivox The Diary of a Superfluous Man , at Internet Archive and LibriVox audiobooks DEFAULTSORT Diary of a Superfluous Man Category 1850 books Category Novellas by Ivan Turgenev 19thC novel stub Ivan Turgenev ... more details
File The Lamplighter 1st ed.jpg thumb right 180px First edition title page The Lamplighter is a sentimental novel written by Maria Susanna Cummins published on March 1, 1854. The Lamplighter was Cummins s first novel and was an immediate best seller, selling 20,000 copies in twenty days. The work sold 40,000 in eight weeks, and within five months it had sold 65,000. At the time it was second in sales only to Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin . It sold over 100,000 copies in Britain and was translated into multiple different languages. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of the novel in a letter to William Ticknor William D. Ticknor What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter , and other books neither better nor worse? In this same letter Hawthorne made his infamous remark, America is now wholly given over to a d d mob of scribbling women . Plot synopsis A female Bildungsroman , The Lamplighter tells the story of Gertrude Flint, an abandoned and mistreated orphan rescued at the age of eight by Trueman Flint, a lamplighter, from her abusive guardian, Nan Grant ref Saulsbury, Rebecca. The Lamplighter . The Literary Encyclopedia. 24 January 2002. http www.litencyc.com php sworks.php?rec true&UID 419 ref . Gertrude is lovingly raised and taught virtues and religious faith. She becomes a moralistic woman. In adulthood, she is rewarded for her long suffering with marriage to a childhood friend. References reflist External links http repo.lib.virginia.edu 18080 fedora get uva lib 436002 uva lib bdef 103 getDynamicView?behav getObjectBrowse&id d6 The Lamplighter full text online http www.archive.org details lamplighter bg librivox The Lamplighter via LibriVox audiobook DEFAULTSORT Lamplighter, The Category Sentimental novels Category 1854 novels Category Bildungsromans pl Tajemnica Gerty ... more details
Image Frivolous Fables frog and bull.gif thumb Illustration from Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl, with illustrations by Peter Newell . Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl . These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine s original writings. The Aesop style fables are written in verse, and are light hearted re tellings of fables from two centuries before, each ending with a moral and a pun. Among the more celebrated of the fables are The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare , The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull , and The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven . External links wikisource Gutenberg no 6438 name Fables for the Frivolous http librivox.org fables for the frivolous by guy wetmore carryl Free audiobook at LibriVox http www.archive.org details fablesforthe00carrrich Fables for the Frivolous , a digitized copy of the first edition from the Internet Archive . Category 1898 books Category American poetry Category Parodies poetry collection stub ... more details
orphan date March 2010 The Shadows is a fairy tale by George MacDonald . Plot introduction Ralph Rinkelmann is a writer, who is selected by fairies to be the king of the fairies. While he is ill, they carry him off and crown him as king. The strange Shadows spend their existence casting themselves upon the walls and forming pictures of various sorts mimicking evil actions of those who have done wrong in the hopes of causing their repentance, playing a comic dumb show to inspire a playwright and dancing to inspire a musician, nudging a little girl to comfort her grandfather, and playing with a sick little boy as he waits for his mother to return home. For all that their forms are black, their hearts are of the whitest. The story ends with Ralph Rinkelman being comforted. External links http librivox.org the shadows by george macdonald Librivox Audio http www.gutenberg.org etext 18859 Gutenberg Etext DEFAULTSORT Shadows Category Short stories by George MacDonald fantasy story stub ... more details
Gubbinal is a poem from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium poetry collection Harmonium . It is in the public domain according to Librivox. ref name librivox cite web url http librivox.org forum viewtopic.php?t 4077 title COMPLETE Public Domain Poems of W Stevens, Vol. 1 PO ez publisher LibriVox Forum accessdate September 27, 2010 ref It can be read as one of his poems of epistemology , as B. J. Leggett styles it in his Nietzschean reading of Stevens perspectivism, ref name uiuc cite web url http www.english.uiuc.edu maps poets s z stevens snowman.htm title On The Snow Man last Leggett first B. J. accessdate September 27, 2010 Excerpted from Leggett, Early Stevens The Nietzschean Intertext , 1992, Duke University Press . ref a minimalistic statement of his interest in the relationship between imagination and the world. The term gubbinal may derive from gubbin , slang for a dullard, referring here to someone who takes the world to be ugly and the people sad. ref Nicholson, p. 23 In somewhat arcane slang gubbin means what it sounds like, a dull person the you who insists on the sad ugliness of the world. ref align right border 1 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 style margin left 1em style margin bottom 1em align left style background lightyellow Gubbinal p That strange flower, the sun, br Is just what you say. br Have it your way. The world is ugly, br And the people are sad. That tuft of jungle feathers, br That animal eye, br Is just what you say. That savage of fire, br That seed, br Have it your way. The world is ugly, br And the people are sad. Perspectives or takes on the world may be less or more insightful, ranging from the world is ugly to a poetic take on the sun. Stevens has been understood as an idealist, denying the existence of a mind independent external world, but that is not necessary. Apart from perspectives, there is nothing to say about the worl ... more details
For other articles Master and Man disambiguation Master and Man lang ru is a short story by Leo Tolstoy 1895 . Plot summary In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly for business purchasing the forest before other contenders can get there . They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master s peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia . After leaving his peasant to die, and returning to the same place he had fled from, the master attains a spiritual moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others. The master then lies on top of the peasant to keep him warm through the cold night. Vasili is too exposed to the cold though and dies. Nikita s life is saved, but he loses some of his toes to frostbite. External links wikisource http librivox.org master and man by leo tolstoy Librivox Audio Book http www.gutenberg.org etext 986 Gutenberg Ebook Leo Tolstoy Category 1895 short stories Category Short stories by Leo Tolstoy story stub de Herr und Knecht fr Ma tre et serviteur ... more details
italic title An Introduction to Metaphysics Introduction la M taphysique is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For Bergson, reality occurs not in a series of discrete states but as a process similar to that described by process philosophy or the Greek philosopher Heraclitus . Reality is fluid and cannot be completely understood through reduction philosophy reduction istic analysis, which he said implies that we go around an object , gaining knowledge from various perspectives which are relative. Instead, reality can be grasped absolutely only through intuition, which Bergson expressed as entering into the object. Publication data Henri Bergson. An Introduction to Metaphysics 1903 . Hackett Publishing Company 1999 ISBN 0 87220 474 X The essay is also contained in the collection The Creative Mind An Introduction to Metaphysics 1923. Citadel Press 1992 ISBN 0 8065 0421 8 The Creative Mind An Introduction to Metaphysics 1923. Dover Publications 2007 ISBN 0486454398 External links http www.archive.org details anintroductiont00berggoog Introduction to Metaphysics at Internet Archive Librivox introduction to metaphysics bergson Introduction to Metaphysics Category 1903 essays Category Metaphysics literature Category Philosophy essays Category Works by Henri Bergson philosophy stub ... more details
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy 1844 is a treatise on political economics by John Stuart Mill . Walras law , a principle in general equilibrium general equilibrium theory named in honour of L on Walras , ref citation last1 Barron first1 John M. year 2006 title Understanding macroeconomic theory last2 Ewing first2 Bradley T. last3 Lynch first3 Gerald J. publisher Taylor & Francis isbn 9780415701952 url http books.google.com books?id 3XOK9K39QJkC&pg PA1 page 1 ref was first expressed by Mill in this treatise. ref citation last1 Ariyasajjakorn first1 Danupon year 2007 title Trade, foreign direct investment, technological change, and structural change in labor usage publisher ProQuest isbn 9780549306542 url http books.google.com books?id PuwDG9SqjwMC&pg PA55 page 55 ref See also Principles of Political Economy References Reflist External links http www.econlib.org library Mill mlUQP.html Full text on Econlib Fully searchable, free, complete. http www.gutenberg.org etext 12004 Full text on Project Gutenberg http librivox.org essays on political economy by john stuart mill Free audio recording on LibriVox Category 1844 books Category Books by John Stuart Mill Category Political books poli book stub ... more details
Infobox book name The Trespasser title orig translator image Image Trespasser00.jpg 200px prefer 1st edition image caption author D. H. Lawrence illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre novel publisher Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd release date 1912 ref http www.s4ulanguages.com dhlawrence.html Facsimile of the 1st edition 1912 ref english release date media type Print pages 292 isbn preceded by The White Peacock followed by Sons and Lovers The Trespasser is the second novel written by D. H. Lawrence , published in 1912. Originally it was entitled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous relationship with a married man that ended with his suicide. Lawrence worked from Corke s diary, with her permission, but also urged her to publish which she did in 1933 as Neutral Ground . Corke later wrote several biographical works on Lawrence. Standard edition The Trespasser 1912 , edited by Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press,1981, ISBN 0 521 22264 8 References reflist 2 External links gutenberg no 9498 name The Trespasser http librivox.org the trespasser by d h lawrence Free MP3 audiobook of The Trespasser from http librivox.org LibriVox DEFAULTSORT Trespasser, The Category British novels Category Novels by D. H. Lawrence Category 1912 novels 1910s novel stub ... more details
Bah books Paristalks.jpg Paris Talks is a book transcribed from talks given by Abdu l Bah while in Paris. It was originally published as Talks by Abdu l Bah Given in Paris in 1912. Abdu l Bah did not read and authenticate the transcripts of his talks in Paris, and thus the authenticity of the talks is not known. Shoghi Effendi , the Guardian of the Bah Faith has said that while the texts are not authenticated, the compilations can still be used by Bah s and in the future work will be done to find which parts are authentic. br clear left Lady Blomfield s copious notes are the basis of the volume. See also Abdu l Bah s journeys to the West References cite book author Abdu l Bah authorlink Abdu l Bah origyear 1912 year 1995 title Paris Talks edition Hardcover publisher Bah Distribution Service isbn 1 870989 57 0 url http reference.bahai.org en t ab PT http news.bahai.org story 237 Memorial to a shining star London, United Kingdom, 10 August 2003 BWNS External links http bahai9.com Paris Talks Compendium on Paris Talks http librivox.org talks by abdul baha given in paris by abdu E2 80 99l baha E2 80 98abbas Paris Talks at LibriVox audiobooks Category Bah texts Bah stub de Ansprachen in Paris pt Palestras de Abdu l Bah zh ... more details
Image Seneca berlinantikensammlung 1.jpg thumb Ancient bust of Seneca Antikensammlung Berlin italic title For the Latin song, see the article De Brevitate Vitae . De Brevitate Vitae frequently referred to as On the Shortness of Life in English is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger , a Ancient Rome Roman Stoicism Stoic philosopher , to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoicism Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives man enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In general, time can be best used in the study of philosophy , according to Seneca. External links Wikisource On the shortness of life http www.forumromanum.org literature seneca younger brev e.html On the Shortness of Life translated by John W. Basore, 1932 http librivox.org of the shortness of life by lucius annaeus seneca Of the Shortness of Life audio recording from LibriVox Category 1st century books Category Classical Latin literature Category Philosophy essays Category Roman era philosophy Category Stoicism Category Works by Seneca the Younger philosophy stub de De brevitate vitae es De la brevedad de la vida it De brevitate vitae pt De brevitate vitae ... more details
For the statue, see The Three Soldiers . Image ThreeSoldiers.jpg thumb First edition right Three Soldiers is a 1920 ref http web.csustan.edu english reuben pal chap7 dospassos.html PAL John Dos Passos 1896 1970 Bot generated title ref novel by the United States American writer and critic John Dos Passos . It is one of the key American war novel s of the First World War , and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre . H.L. Mencken , then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set . Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality. References references External links http onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu webbin gutbook lookup?num 6362 Text of Three Soldiers at Project Gutenburg http librivox.org three soldiers by john dos passos Audio recording at http www.librivox.org Librivox John Dos Passos novels Category 1920 novels Category 20th century American novels Category World War I novels Category Anti war novels war novel stub ... more details
italic title About the autobiography of Helen Keller other books with similar titles The Story of My Life disambiguation Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 The Story of My Life , first published in 1903, is Helen Keller s autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan . Portions of it were adapted by William Gibson playwright William Gibson for a 1957 Playhouse 90 production, a The Miracle Worker play 1959 Broadway play , a The Miracle Worker 1962 film 1962 Hollywood feature film , and a Black 2005 film 2005 Indian film . External links http www.archive.org search.php?query the 20story 20of 20my 20life 20creator 3A 22keller 22 20AND 20mediatype 3Atexts The Story of My Life at Internet Archive scanned books original editions color illustrated http www.archive.org details story my life 1002 librivox The Story of My Life at LibriVox audiobook Helen Keller DEFAULTSORT Story of My Life Category Alabama nonfiction Category American autobiographies Category 1903 books US bio book stub sh The Story of My Life biografija zh ... more details
orphan date August 2010 The Time Traders , by Andre Norton , is the first volume of a series of related time and space travel stories and part of Norton s Forerunner universe. Volumes in this sequence are The Time Traders 1958 Galactic Derelict 1959 The Defiant Agents 1962 Key Out of Time 1963 Firehand 1994 written with Pauline M Griffin Echoes in Time 1999 with Sherwood Smith Atlantis Endgame 2002 with Sherwood Smith Sherwood Smith s collaborative volumes are more polished than Norton s solo work, while retaining the feel of the classic entries in the series. Project Gutenberg has some examples from this series http www.gutenberg.org etext 19145 The Time Traders http www.gutenberg.org etext 19651 Key Out of Time LibriVox has an audio book version http librivox.org the time traders by andre norton The Time Traders DEFAULTSORT Time Traders, The Category Science fiction book series Category 1958 novels Category American science fiction novels Category Prehistoric fantasy novels Category Prehistoric people in popular culture Category Time travel novels Category Works by Andre Norton 1950s sf novel stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Explanation is a poem from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium poetry collection Harmonium 1923 . It was first published in 1917, so it is in the public domain. ref Buttel, p. 162. See also Librivox http librivox.org forum viewtopic.php?t 4077 and the Poetry web site. http www.poetrymagazine.org search author.html?query 6576 ref align right border 1 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 style margin left 1em style margin bottom 1em align left style background lightyellow Explanation p Ach, Mutter, br This old, black dress, br I have been embroidering br French flowers on it. Not by way of romance, br Here is nothing of the ideal, br Nein, br Nein. It would have been different, br Liebchen, br If I had imagined myself, br In an orange gown, br Drifting through space, br Like a figure on the church wall. br This poem may be an explanation of the difference between conventional decoration and artistic imagination, the latter represented, as Buttel proposes, by an allusion to Chagall and the otherworldly charm of his paintings. ref Buttel, p. 162 ref Notes references References Buttel, Robert. Wallace Stevens The Making of Harmonium . 1967 Princeton University Press. Category Poetry by Wallace Stevens ... more details
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