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ID: 301328

Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Narrator: Robert Bethune

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty - has inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust over both slavery and the Mexican-American War, Thoreau argued that individuals must not permit nor enable their government to act against their own consciences. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.

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ID: 350070

Title: Briar Rose (or, Sleeping Beauty)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

In Briar Rose, better known as Sleeping Beauty, seven good fairies are invited to be godmothers to an infant princess. An old, overlooked fairy feels slighted and puts a deadly curse on the princess. A kind fairy modulates the curse from death to 100 years of deep sleep which can be broken by the kiss of a handsome prince. This combination of princess, sleep enchantment and rescue by prince exists in multiple folk tales going back as early as the narrative Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344.

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ID: 350074

Title: Ashputtel (or, Cinderella)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Ashputtel, or Cinderella, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. In it, a young girl is forced by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters to a life of servitude. Sleeping next to the fireplace, she earns the nickname Ashputtel. Elements of the Grimm treatment of this story are much more intense than other versions (Perrault and Disney, for example), with the stepsisters experiencing a more violent conclusion. The theme of the persecuted heroine whose attributes go unrecognized has remained popular in modern storytelling, movies and media.

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ID: 350071

Title: Twelve Dancing Princesses

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

In this tale, twelve princesses, each of astounding beauty, are locked in their shared bedroom by their father each night. Vexed to discover that their dancing shoes show signs of wear every morning, the king demands an explanation, which they refuse to give. The king offers his kingdom and marriage to any of his daughters as a reward to the man who solves the mystery. However, if the mystery remains unsolved after three nights, the erstwhile suitor will be put to death. After many entrants fail, a wise old soldier finally cracks the case.

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ID: 350076

Title: Snow-White and Rose-Red

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Snow-White, fair-haired, quiet and shy, and Rose-Red, dark-haired, outspoken and lively, are two little girls living with their mother in a small cottage by the woods. They give shelter on a winter night to a kindly bear, who treats them gently and returns every night. In the summer, the girls encounter a wicked dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. Freeing the dwarf, the girls are met with loud ungrateful recriminations for cutting his beard. More episodes of rescuing the dwarf from various perils transpire in a similar fashion. In the end, the bear comes to aid of the girls.

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ID: 350078

Title: Juniper-Tree

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale containing themes of child abuse, murder and cannibalism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales. In it, a boy is murdered and made into a stew by his evil stepmother, who buries his bones beneath a juniper tree outside their house. The boy is reincarnated as a bird who flies forth from the tree and enlists the townspeople to help him exact revenge. It is thought that the Grimm version of this tale was adapted from painter Philipp Otto Runge's The Almond Tree.

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ID: 350066

Title: Rumpelstiltskin

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:07:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

In Rumpelstiltskin a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can spin gold from straw is forced by the king to deliver on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's distraught daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. Later, when the daughter, now the queen, gives birth to her first child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn his name. According to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, this story originated around 4,000 years ago.

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ID: 350062

Title: Elves and the Shoemaker

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

In The Elves and the Shoemaker a poor shoemaker prepares his last piece of leather to work on before turning in for bed. In the morning, he is amazed to find the shoes already made. Selling these to a grateful customer, his financial obligations are met and he is able to buy enough leather for two more pairs. When these are completed overnight in a similar fashion he stays awake to solve the mystery. Learning that a team of naked elves are responsible for the fine shoes, the shoemaker and his wife create tiny clothes for the elves to thank them. A popular tale that has been adapted many times for film and TV.

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ID: 350073

Title: Tom Thumb

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

In the Brothers Grimm version of Tom Thumb, a lonely couple hopes for a child, even, the wife says, if it were no bigger than my thumb. To their delight, their wishes come true and the boy is named Tom Thumb for his diminutive stature. The boy is crafty and helps his father by directing the family horse to haul firewood by standing in his ear and whispering commands. Embarking on several adventures, Tom displays a knack for tricking the slow-witted people who attempt to take advantage of Tom's unique size.

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ID: 350064

Title: Seven Ravens

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:06:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

In The Seven Ravens a peasant sends his seven sons to fetch water for his daughter's christening. Having lost their pails in the well, they are afraid to return home without having completed their task. The peasant, thinking they have gone off to play, curses them whereupon they are immediately transformed into ravens. When the daughter is grown up she sets off to discover the whereabouts of her long-lost brothers. This folk tale exists in multiple varieties and was adapted into film in 1937.

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