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Title: Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

Author: Benvenuto Cellini

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Memoir

Publisher's Summary:

Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. He even writes in a complacent way of how he contemplated his murders before carrying them out. He writes of his time in Paris:

Parts of his tale recount some extraordinary events and phenomena; such as his stories of conjuring up a legion of devils in the Colosseum, after one of his not innumerous mistresses had been spirited away from him by her mother; of the marvelous halo of light which he found surrounding his head at dawn and twilight after his Roman imprisonment, and his supernatural visions and angelic protection during that adversity; and of his being poisoned on two separate occasions.

The autobiography is a classic, and commonly regarded as one of the most colourful; it is certainly the most important autobiography from the Renaissance.

Cellini's autobiography is one of the books Tom Sawyer mentions as inspiration while freeing Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline)

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Title: Book of Discovery

Author: M. B. Synge

Narrator: Kristine Bekere

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Kids, General

Publisher's Summary:

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, Book of Discovery is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down. Of the many who went forth, the few only attained. It is of these few that this book tells. (From the Preface of the book).

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Title: 100 Quotes about Leadership

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: Katie Haigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: Compagnie du Savoir

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Publisher's Summary:

We have selected for you 100 great quotes to develop your leadership. Leadership is a practical skill, regarding the ability of an individual or organization to lead or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Having a great sense of leadership can inspire great men and women in their actions, in their thoughts, in their lives, and in the lives of many people around them. Leadership is also defined as a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. Those 100 great quotes will inspire you, will motivate you, will give you thoughts, ideas, will help you to develop your thinking and your ability about leadership. Listen to it, it will help you to change. A great quote is very similar to a great thinking and a small poem. It can encapsulate a large web of ideas, thoughts, reflections, emotions in a few words. The reader of a great quote is forced to think about what he just heard. He has to think about those words and what they mean. An excellent quote requires the reader to pause to contemplate the real meaning and poetry of a few words. A great thought reaches a level of universality. Quotes hit hard into the essence of being human. The right quote can help us to see some invisible meanings of things or subjects. The range of authors of those 100 quotes to develop your leadership is very wide: from Sun Tzu to Steve Jobs, from Dwight D. Eisenhower, of course, to Napol?n Bonaparte, Henry David Thoreau, Colin Powell, Nelson Mandela, from Homer to the Holy Bible or Carl von Clausewitz.

 

 

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Title: Cloudy Jewel

Author: Grace Livingston Hill

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Religious & Inspirational

Publisher's Summary:

Julia Cloud, the oldest--and most responsible--child of her family, helped raise her four siblings due to their mother's long-time illness and father's death. After faithfully nursing two ill brothers (who died), she then cared for her invalid mother for many years. When Julia's mother passes on, her only surviving sibling Ellen fully expects--and nearly demands--that her spinster sister come live with her family. But to earn her keep, Julia must be their live-in housekeeper and babysitter for Ellen's four children. But Julia's college-age niece and nephew arrive unexpectedly from California and offer Aunt Cloudy Jewel a surprise opportunity she never expected in her wildest dreams. (Summary by Joy Easton)

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Title: Napoleon of Notting Hill

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: Ray Clare

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Publisher's Summary:

While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: Forward, my beauty, my Arab, he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, fleetest of all thy bounding tribe), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London streets, and Wayne thinks up a few ingenious strategies; and, finally, the novel is philosophical, considering the value of one man's actions and the virtue of respect for one's enemies. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Title: Brieven van den nutteloozen toeschouwer

Author: Louis Couperus

Narrator: Anna Simon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Foreign Language Titles, Other

Publisher's Summary:

Deze serie columns in de vorm van brieven schreef Couperus voor het dagblad Het Vaderland, vanuit Munchen en later vanuit Florence. Ze verschenen voor het eerst in druk in Het Vaderland van oktober tot december 1914.

Vanaf 1912 bracht Louis Couperus de zomers door in een pension aan de Wittelsbacherplatz in Munchen. Daar was hij dan ook toen op 1 augustus 1914 Duitsland de oorlog verklaarde aan Rusland. In deze 'brieven' beschrijft hij zijn reactie op dit nieuws en het nieuws van de eerste dagen en weken van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

In het begin spreekt er uit de tekst bijna een fascinatie voor de oorlog. Voor het schrijven van zijn historische romans had Couperus zich vaak verdiept in de geschiedenis - nu krijgt hij het gevoel zelf deel uit te maken van de geschiedenis. Hij verslindt alle kranten die hij te pakken kan krijgen, leest alle openbare telegrammen met oorlogsnieuws en houdt de ontwikkelingen bij met vlaggetjes op een oorlogskaart. Ik wil mijn eigen tijd kennen.

Maar al snel komt de twijfel, het besef dat hij nooit een objectieve beschrijving, nooit de hele waarheid, te weten zal komen van de gebeurtenissen om hem heen. Zijn leven en denken raakt verlamd, hij komt nergens meer toe. Uiteindelijk probeert hij de Wereldbrand de rug toe te draaien.

Geen online tekst beschikbaar (laatste check: juli 2013).

English: A series of newspaper columns in Dutch, written by well-known Dutch author Louis Couperus in 1914, during the first weeks of World War I. He describes his reflections on the current events.

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Title: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection)

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardy's poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and mankind's long struggle against indifference to human suffering. (Summary from Wikipedia).