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Title: Our Little Japanese Cousin

Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

Narrator: Julia Niedermaier

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Meet Lotus Blossom, our little Japanese Cousin and her little brother Toyo. Join them in their everyday life and learn about Japanese customs and culture. (Summary by Julia Niedermaier)

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Title: Sammlung deutscher Gedichte 016

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Eine Sammlung von 20 deutschen Gedichten für LibriVox.

Der Kapitän von Walt Whitman wurde übersetzt von Wilhelm Schölermann (1865-1923)

Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.

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Title: Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks

Author: William Taylor Adams

Narrator: Lucy Burgoyne

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her parents were always glad to do any thing they could to please her, and to increase her happiness.

This story was written by Adams under the pseudonym of Oliver Optic.

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Title: The Life and Adventures of Venture

Author: Venture Smith

Narrator: Bill Boerst

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Venture Smith (1729-1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented when he gave a narrative of his life to a schoolteacher, who wrote it down and published it under the title A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

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Title: Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear

Author: Edward Lear

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-cat; the Broom, the Shovel, The Poker and the Tongs; The Duck and the Kangaroo; The Cummerbund; The Dong with the Luminous Nose; The New Vestments; Calico Pie; The courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo and Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly. Also included at no extra cost are two sections with my favorite Lear limericks. Only about 30 of them but they are all funny and full of delectable silliness. I hope you enjoy listening to these as much as I enjoyed recording them. (Summary by phil chenevert)

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Title: Awful German Language (Version 2)

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Kirsten Wever

Length: 1 hr 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain's travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language.

His examples of precisely how the German language is awful include the famed "separable verb" - which allows one to put the first part of a given verb at the beginning - and its second part at the end - of a given clause or sentence (which may, indeed, be very long). He also makes fun of the extreme length of certain compound nouns (which are created by tacking two - or more - words together, without using hyphens to clarify where one ends and the next begins), as well as the many noun and verb forms one must master (memorize) in order to use German cases properly.

As the essay progresses, Twain includes a few hilarious passages that are partly or mostly in (his own, awful) German. Nevertheless, the work is easily understandable even by people who don't know any German at all. (In the novel, A Tramp Abroad, Twain details his journey with his friend, Harris, through Germany, the Alps, and Italy, where he encounters various ridiculous situations.

Here, much of the humor lies in his silly, often over-stated characterization of the circumstances as quickly grasped and easily explained by such a seasoned tourist as himself, while he also make plain throughout the profoundly strange nature of many of his experiences, and the various pitfalls he and Harris run into as they try to navigate their unfamiliar terrain.) (Introduction by Kirsten Wever)

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Title: Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce

Author: William Mountfort

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 1 hr 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

First produced between 1684-1688, this - as the title says - is Faust played as a comedy. Angels to go along with Mephistopholis and Lucifer and Beelzebub, sure, but also the Seven Deadly Sins and wait a minute - Scaramouche and Harlequin?? (The author Mountfort was also an actor and was killed trying to prevent an attempt to kidnap an actress in a case that ended up in the House of Lords.) - Summary by ToddHW

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Title: Third Person

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Anthony Orr

Length: 1 hr 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest tales. The anticlimactic crisis may need a footnote for younger readers: a Tauchnitz was an unauthorized continental paperback edition of a british or american book which, purely for copyright reasons, was not supposed to be brought back to England. To think of this as smuggling certainly placed, for James's contemporaries, the crimes of the ghostly third person in a hilarious perspective. (Summary by Anthony Orr)

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Title: Aaron Trow

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: Bill Boerst

Length: 1 hr 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which person really wins--the pursued or the pursuer. Or perhaps which one is now the pursuer, which the pursued. - Summary by Bill Boerst

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Title: That Pup

Author: Ellis Parker Butler

Narrator: David Wales

Length: 1 hr 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

A puppy, unanounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales