Culture & Heritage

Why do we need a public library?

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Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…

The Village in the Jungle

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Leonard Woolf


Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…

牛郎織女傳 (Cowherd and Weaver Girl)

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Mingshi Zhu 名世朱


牛郎织女传为明代朱名世编辑的白话神话小说，原作者已不可考，讲述了牛郎和织女被玉帝拘禁，分开至天河两侧，后因情深而得以于每年七月七夕自天河两侧踏鹊桥团聚的爱情故事，其中牛郎趁织女洗澡时偷走织女的衣服的情节是编者首次加入的。该书整合了历朝历代关于牛郎和织女的故事，是目前的第一部完整记…

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 08

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This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Fire - Flowers

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E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18,…

The Outcry

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Henry James


The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

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Sir John Mandeville


This is an Elizabethan translation of a 14th century travelogue, allegedly composed by one Sir John Mandeville. According to the book, John …

The Age of the Motored Things

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project…

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

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A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…

Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

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Annie Denton Cridge


"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…

La Fée des Grèves

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Paul Féval, père and Paul Féval, Père


Roman historique, pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans. Le Duc François de Bretagne est dénoncé pour fratricide.Un ouvrage ple…

Minnie's Sacrifice

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Frances E. W. Harper


Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

The Fables of Pilpay

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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ


These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…

Iolanthe

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W. S. Gilbert


Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to t…

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion

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Beatrice E. Clay


"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…

Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 3

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François-René de Chateaubriand


Troisième partie. Carrière politique. 1814 - 1830.Bonaparte, Egypte, Empire et Sacre, Austerlitz, Guerre de Russie, L’Ile d’El…

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 17

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This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Baltimore Hats

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William T. Brigham


It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…

Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

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Montague Glass


Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

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This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…

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