Librivox First Chapter Collection 005 - a collection of the first chapters of 15 different books, fiction and nonfiction, mostly English but one in Spanish, chosen by Librivox volunteers.This volume includes the first chapters of books by authors including Jane Austen, George MacDonald, and Joseph Conrad; the apocryphal Book of Enoch; Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors; an intriguing mystery by J. S. Fletcher; and much more!

Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training

This is the third book in the Wood Folk series by William J. Long, where he masterfully recreates animal life studies he observed while in the woods. He writes of the secrets of animals and birds while using their lovely, Milicete Indian names, such as Meeko and Mooween.

Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.

Talkoiden pitäminen on hyvä tapa saada jokin työ nopeasti tehdyksi. Talkoille kutsutaan naapurit ja kyläläiset, ruokaa ja juomaa annetaan, mutta ei mitään palkkaa. Talkoilla sopii teettää melkein mitä työtä tahansa, yleisin on viljan leikkuutalkoot, mutta myös heinäntalkoot ovat suosittuja. Salmelan varakas talo päättääkin pitää heinäntälkoot. Paikalle kutsutaan myös naapurikylästä herastuomari Risto Tohonen ja hänen tyttärensä Hetvi. Salmelan isännällä ja Toholan isännällä on näe tarkoituksena saada Hetvi ja Salmelan Samu toisiinsa tutustumaan ja paritumaa. Mutta kaikki ei sujukaan suunnitelmien mukaan!

Family Salmela decides to organize work party for haymaking. Judge Tohonen i...

The original story of the Nutcracker, weird and wonderful by one of the masters of horror and weirdness.

The poignant biography of Saint Macrina, by her brother, Saint Gregory of Nyssa. (The Reader)

“The use of the word "philosophy" to designate Christianity is common in the writings of the fourth century, ... It is employed in a twofold sense, of the Christian religion generally and of asceticism in particular.” (from the 2nd footnote of the narrated text.)

"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature."

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including George Gissing, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Anton Chekhov.

De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam. The English translation of the work made its first appearance four years later (London 1651) under the title 'Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society'." It anticipates themes of the better-known Leviathan. The famous phrase bellum omnium contra omnes ("war of all against all") appeared first in De Cive. DPLs for this project were phaedo and craigdav1

Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore and she left for India in 1881 to join her father.

In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss ...