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Othello by William Shakespeare Act lll Free Audio Plays from the Tale Teller Club Library

act three of othello this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a fellow by william shakespeare act 3 act 3 scene 1 cyprus before the castle enter cassio and some musicians cassio masters play here i will content your pains something that's brief and bid good morrow general music enter clown clown why masters have your instruments been in naples that they speak in the nose thus first musician how sir how clown are these i pray you wind instruments first musician a mary are they sir clown o thereby hangs a tail first musician whereby hangs a tail sir clown mary sir by many a wind instrument that i know but masters here's money for you and the general so likes your music that he desires you for love's sake to make no more noise with it first musician well sir we will not clown if you have any music that may not be heard to it again but as they say to hear music the general does not greatly care first musician we have none such sir clown then put up your pipes in your bag for all away go vanish into air away excellent musicians cassio dost thou here mine honest friend clown no i hear not your honest friend i hear you cassio prithee keep up thy quilts there's a poor piece of gold for thee if the gentlewoman that attends a general's wife be stirring tell her there's one casio and treats her a little favor of speech will thou do this clown she is stirring sir if she will stir hither i shall seem to notify unto her cassio do good my friend exit clown enter iago and happy time iago iago you have not been a bed then cassio i know the day had broke before we parted i have made bold iago to send in to your wife my suit to her is that she will to virtuous as demona procure me some access iago i'll send her to you presently and i'll devise a mean to draw the more out of the way that your converse and business may be more free cassio i humbly thank you for it exit iago i never knew a florentine more kind and honest enter emilia emilia good morrow good lieutenant i am sorry for your displeasure but all will sure be well the general and his wife are talking of it and she speaks for you soughtly the more replies that he you heard is of great fame and cyprus and great affinity and that in wholesome wisdom he might not but refuse you but he protests he loves you and needs no other suitor but his liking to take the safest occasion by the front to bring you in again cassio yet i beseech you if you think fit or that it may be done give me advantage of some brief discourse with desdemona alone emilia pray you come in i will bestow you where you shall have time to speak your bosom freely cassio i am much bound to you excellent scene two cypress a room in the castle enter othello iago and gentlemen othello these letters give iago to the pilot and by him do my duties to the senate that then i will be walking on the works repair there to me iago well my good lord i'll do it othello this fortification gentlemen shall we see it gentlemen we'll wait upon your lordship exient scene three cypress the garden of the castle enter desdemona cassio and emilia desamona be thou assured good cassio i will do all my abilities and thy behalf emilia good madame do i warn agrees my husband as if the cause were his desdemona oh that's an honest fellow do not doubt cassio but i will have my lord and you again as friendly as you were cassio bountious madam whatever shall become of michael cassio he's never anything but your true servant desdemona i know it i thank you you do love my lord you have known him long and be you well assured he shall in strangeness stand no farther off than in a politic distance cassio a but lady that policy may either last so long or feed upon such nice and waterish diet or breed itself so out of circumstance that i being absent and my place...

The Charing Cross Mystery
by J. S. Fletcher

Publication date 2021-06-06
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, coming
LibriVox recording of The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher.
Read in English by Kirsten Wever

Here's another intriguing mystery by J. S. Fletcher, centering on why a former high-level police official was murdered, and on whether - and if so how - the murder was linked to two glamorous and high-profile sisters, one of whose photo was found in the dead man's pocket. As usual, Fletcher creates a number of different detectives -- a lawyer, his assistant, several policemen, a police spy, and even the dead man's granddaughter -- following various lines of inquiry. These lines converge rapidly in the last few chapters, when the author lets the reader weave them together into a coherent whole: the solution to the mystery. Summary by Kirsten Wever

chapter 1 of the charring cross mystery this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by kirsten weber the charing cross mystery by j.f fletcher the last train east heatherwick had dined that evening with friends who lived in cadigan gardens and had stayed so late in conversation with his host that midnight had come before he left and set out for his bachelor chambers in the temple it was indeed by the fraction of a second that he caught the last eastbound train at sloane square the train was almost destitute of passengers the car which he himself entered a first-class smoking compartment was otherwise empty no one came into it when the train reached victoria but at st james's park two men got in and seated themselves opposite to heatherwick now heatherwick was a young barrister going in for criminal practice in whom the observant faculty was deeply implanted it was natural to him to watch and to speculate on anything he saw because of this and perhaps because he had just then nothing else to think about he sat observing newcomers he found interest amusement and not a little profit in this sort of thing and in trying to decide whether a given man was this that or something else of the two men thus under inspection the elder was a big burly fresh colored man of apparently 60 to 65 years of age his closely cropped silvery hair his smartly trained gray mustache his keen blue eyes and generally alert and vivacious appearance made heatherwick think that he was or had been in some way or other connected with the army this impression was heightened by an erect carriage squares at shoulders and something that suggested a long and close acquaintance with the methods of the drill yard and the parade ground perhaps thought heatherwick he was a retired non-commissioned officer a regimental sergeant major or something of that sort this idea again was strengthened by the fact that the man carried a handsome walking cane the head of which either of gold or of silver guilt was fashioned like a crown there was something military too about the cut of his clothes he was a smartly dressed man from his silk hat new and glossy and worn a little rakishly on the right side of his head to his highly polished boots a well-preserved cheery looking good humored sort of person this decided heatherwick and apparently well satisfied with himself and full of the enjoyment of life and likely from all outward sight to make old bones the other man came into a different category the difference began with his clothes which if not exactly shabby were semi-shabby much worn ill-kept and badly put on he was evidently a careless man who scorned a clothes brush and was also indifferent to the very obvious fact that his linen was frayed and dirty he was a thin meager man of not one half the respectable well-fed bulk of his companion his sallow-complexioned face was worn and his beard thin and...

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Act ll Free Audiobook Plays Tale Teller Club

Othello by William Shakespeare Act ll Free Audio Plays from the Tale Teller Club Library.
act 2 of othello this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

recording by rick vena othello by william shakespeare act 2

scene one a seaport in cyprus a platform enter montano and two gentlemen montano what from the cape can you discern at sea first gentlemen nothing at all it is a high rot flood i cannot twist the heaven and the mane describe a sail montano methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land a fuller blast near shook our battlements if it hath roughy and so upon the sea what ribs of oak when mountains melt on them can hold the mortise what shall we hear of this second gentleman a segregation of the turkish fleet for do but stand upon the foaming shore the chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds the wind shaked surge with high and monstrous mane seems to cast water on the burning bear and quench the guards of the ever fixed pole i never did like molestation view on the unchafed flood montano if that the turkish fleet be not in sheltered and invade they are drowned it is impossible to bear it out enter a third gentleman third gentleman lads our wars are done the desperate tempest hath so banged to the turks that their discernment halts a noble ship of venice hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance on most part of their fleet

montano how is this true third gentleman the ship is here put in a veronessa michael cassio lieutenant to the war-like moore othello has come on shore the moore himself at sea and is in full commission here for cyprus montano i am glad on it tis a worthy governor third gentleman but this same casio though he speak of comfort touching the turkish loss yet he looks sadly and praised the more be safe for they were parted with foul and violent tempest montano pray heavens he be for i have served him and the man commands like a full soldier let's to the seaside ho as well to see the vessel that's come in as to throw out our eyes for brave othello even till we make the mane and the aerial blue an indistinct regard third gentleman come let's do so for every minute is expectancy of more arrivance enter casio casio thanks you the valiant of this war-like isle that so approved the more oh let the heavens give him defense against the elements for i have lost him on a dangerous sea montano is he well shipped cassio his bark is stoutly timbered and his pilot a very expert and approved allowance therefore my hopes not servited to death stand in bold cure within a sale a sale a sale enter a messenger casio what noise messenger the town is empty on the brow of the sea stand ranks of people and they cry a sail casio my hopes do shape him for the governor a shot second gentleman they do discharge their shot of courtesy our friends at least cassio i pray you sir go forth and give us truth who tis that is arrived second gentlemen i shall exit

montano but good lieutenant is your general wived cassio most fortunately he hath achieved a maid that paragon's description and wild fame one that excels the quirks of blazing pens and in the essential vesture of creation does tire the engineer and her second gentleman how now who is put in second gentleman tis one iago ancient to the general casio he has had most favorable and happy speed tempests themselves high seas and howling winds the guttered rocks and congregated sands traitors and steeped to clog the guiltless keel as having sense of beauty do omit their mortal natures letting go safely by the divine desdemona montano what is she cassio she that i spake of our great captain's captain left in the conduct of the bold iago whose footing here anticipates our thoughts a sun night speed great job othello guard and swell his sail with thine own powerful breath that he may bless this bay with his tall ship make love's quick pants and...

The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
by Oscar Wilde

Publication date 2021-08-20
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, willie hughes
LibriVox recording of The Portrait of Mr. W. H. by Oscar Wilde.
Read in English by Rob Marland
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1889. He intended to publish an expanded version of the story as a separate book, a plan that was not realized until after his death. This audiobook is based on the expanded version. - Summary by Rob Marland.
chapter 1 of the portrait of mr wh by oscar wilde this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by rob marland the portrait of mr wh as written by oscar wilde sometime after the publication of his essay of the same title and now first printed from the original enlarged manuscript which for 26 years has been lost to the world chapter one i had been dining with erskine in his pretty little house in bird cage walk and we were sitting in the library over our coffee and cigarettes when the question of literary forgeries happened to turn up in conversation i cannot at present remember how it was that we struck upon this somewhat curious topic as it was at that time but i know we had a long discussion about mcpherson ireland and chatterton and that with regard to the last i insisted that his so-called forgeries were merely the result of an artistic desire for perfect representation that we had no right to quarrel with an artist for the conditions under which he chooses to present his work and that all art being to a certain degree a mode of acting an attempt to realize one's own personality on some imaginative plane out of reach of the troubling accidents and limitations of real life to censure an artist for a forgery was to confuse and ethical with an aesthetical problem erskine who was a good deal older than i was and had been listening to me with the amused deference of a man of forty suddenly put his hand upon my shoulder and said to me what would you say about a young man who had a strange theory about a certain work of art believed in his theory and committed a forgery in order to prove it oh that is quite a different matter i answered erskine remained silent for a few moments looking at the thin grey threads of smoke that were rising from his cigarette yes he said after a pause quite different there was something in the tone of his voice a slight touch of bitterness perhaps that excited my curiosity did you ever know anybody who did that i cried yes he answered throwing his cigarette into the fire a great friend of mine cyril graham he was very fascinating and very foolish and very heartless however he left me the only legacy i ever received in my life what was that i exclaimed laughing erskine rose from his seat as going over to a tall inlaid cabinet that stood between the two windows unlocked it and came back to where i was sitting carrying a small panel picture set in an old and somewhat tarnished elizabethan frame it was a full length portrait of a young man in late 16th century costume standing by a table with his right hand resting on an open book he seemed about 17 years of age and was of quite extraordinary personal beauty though evidently somewhat effeminate indeed had it not been for the dress and the closely cropped hair one would have said that the face with its dreamy wistful eyes and its delicate scarlet lips was the face of a girl in manner and especially in the treatment of the hands the figure reminded one of francois klue's later work the black velvet doblet with its fantastically gilded points and the peacock blue background against which it showed up so pleasantly and from which it gained such luminous...

The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2010-05-14
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audio, shakespeare, venice, drama, comedy
LibriVox recording of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Bassanio's friend Lorenzo. In its focus on love and marriage, the play shares certain concerns with Shakespeare's other comedies. Yet its depiction of the tensions between Jews and Christians in early modern Venice - and its highly dramatic trial scene in Act 4 - create darker currents in the play. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Cast:

Duke of Venice: Filippo Gioachin
Prince of Morocco: Mark F. Smith
Prince of Arragon: David Nicol
Antonio: David O'Connell
Bassanio: mb
Salarino: Laurie Anne Walden
Salanio: Rosalind Wills
Gratiano: David Leeson
Lorenzo: Aaron Elliott
Shylock: etk
Tubal: Carolyn Frances
Launcelot Gobbo: L. Lambert Lawson
Old Gobbo: David Lawrence
Leonardo: Laurie Anne Walden
Balthasar: David Lawrence
Stephano: Lucy Perry
Portia: Arielle Lipshaw
Nerissa: Megan Kunkel
Jessica: Elizabeth Klett
Clerk in court: Ernst Pattynama
Portia's servant: Joshua B. Christensen
Narrator: Dennis Sayers

Audio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

act 1 of the merchant of venice this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit librivox librivox.org

the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter antonio salorino and salano in sooth i know not why i am so sad it wearies me you say it wearies you but how i caught it found it or came by it what stuffed is made of whereof it is born i am to learn and such a want-wit sadness makes of me that i have much ado to know myself your mind is tossing on the ocean therefore your argosies with portly sail like senors and rich burgers on the flood or as it were the pageants of the sea do over pier the petty traffickers that curtsy to them do them reverence as they fly by them with their woven wings believe me sir had i such venture forth the better part of my affections would be with my hopes abroad i should be still plucking the grass to know where sits the wind peering in maps for ports and piers and roads and every object that might make me fear misfortune to my ventures out of doubt would make me sad my wind cooling my broth would blow me to an egg when i thought what harm a win too great might do at sea i should not see the sandy hourglass run but i should think of shallows and of flats and see my wealthy andrew docked in sand veiling her high top lower than her ribs to kiss her burial should i go to church and see the holy edifice of stone and not to think me straight of dangerous rocks which touching but my gentle vessel's side would scatter all her spices on the stream and rode the roaring waters with my silks and in a word but even now worth this and now worth nothing shall i have the thought to think on this and shall i lack the thought that such a thing the chance would make me sad but tell not me i know antonio is sad to think upon his merchandise believe me no i thank my fortune for it my ventures are not in one bottom trusted nor to one place nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year therefore my merchandise makes me...

Othello
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2021-08-21
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, classics
LibriVox recording of Othello by William Shakespeare.
Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers

Othello is a tragedy about the downfall of the titular hero, Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice. His cunning ensign, Iago, plots to goad his jealousy and thus manipulate his relationship with his wife, Desdemona, a noble and virtuous Venetian beauty whom he just married. (Summary by Junrui Zheng).

act one of othello this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by nicolas seducci a fellow by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter rodrigo and iago rodrigo tash never tell me i take it much unkindly that thou iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine should know of this iago it's blood but you will not hear me if ever i did dream of such a matter abhor me rodrigo thou told me thou didst hold him and i hate iago despise me if i do not three great ones of the city in personal suit to make me his lieutenant of caps to him and by the faith of man i know my price i am worth no worse a place but he as loving his own pride and purposes evades them with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with epithets of war and in conclusion none suits my mediators for cert he says he i have already chose my officer and what was he forsooth a great arithmetician one michael cassio a florentine a fellow almost damned and a fair wife that never set a squadron in the field nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster unless the bookish theoretic wherein the toad's consoles can propose as masterly as he mayor prattle without practice is all his soldiership but he sir had the election and i of whom his eyes had seen the proof at roads at cyprus and on other grounds christian and heathen must be bullied and calmed by debiter and creditor this counter-caster he in good time must his lieutenant be and i god bless the mark his more ships ancient

roderigo by heaven i rather would have been his hangman iago why there's no remedy tis the curse of service preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation where each second stood there to the first now sir be judge yourself whether i in any just term emma find to love the more rodrigo i would not follow him then iago oh sir content you i follow him to serve my turn upon him we cannot all be masters nor all masters cannot be truly followed you shall mark many a duties and knee crooking nave that doting on his own obsequious bondage wears out his time much like his master's ass for not but provender and when he's old cashiered whip me such honest knaves others there are who trimmed in forms and visages of duty keep yet their hearts attending on themselves and throwing but shows of service on their lords do well thrive by them and when they have line their coats do themselves homage these fellows have some soul and such a one do i profess myself for sir it is as sure as you or rodrigo were i the more i would not be iago and following him i fall about myself heaven is my judge not i for love and duty but seeming so for my peculiar end for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern tis not long after but i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for dawes to peck at i am not what i am rodrigo what a full fortune does the thick lips owe if he can carry it with us iago call up her father rouse him make after him poison his delight proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen and though he had a fertile climate dwell plague him with flies though that is joy be joy yet throws such changes of vexation on as it may lose some color rodrigo here is her father's...

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The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles Is Opportunity Monopolized?

The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12, 13 Attack by Fire Use of Spies Public Domain.
this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by moira fogarty the art of war by sun tzu translated by lionel giles part 12 the attack by fire sun tzu said there are five ways of attacking with fire the first is to burn soldiers in their camp the second is to burn stores the third is to burn baggage trains the fourth is to burn arsenals and magazines the fifth is to hurl dropping fire amongst the enemy in order to carry out an attack we must have means available the material for raising fire should always be kept in readiness there is a proper season for making attacks with fire and special days for starting a conflagration the proper season is when the weather is very dry the special days are those when the moon is in the constellations of the sieve the wall the wing or the crossbar for these four are all days of rising wind in attacking with fire one should be prepared to meet five possible developments one when fire breaks out inside to enemies camp respond at once with an attack from without two if there is an outbreak of fire but the enemy soldiers remain quiet bide your time and do not attack three when the force of the flames has reached its height follow it up with an attack if that is practicable if not stay where you are four if it is possible to make an assault with fire from without do not wait for it to break out within but deliver your attack at a favorable moment five when you start a fire be too windward of it do not attack from the leeward wind that rises in the daytime lasts long but a night breeze soon falls in every army the five developments connected with fire must be known the movements of the stars calculated and a watch kept for the proper days hence those who use fire as an aid to the attack show intelligence those who use water as an aid to hit the attack gain an accession of strength by means of water an enemy may be intercepted but not robbed of all his belongings unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise for the result is a waste of time and general stagnation hence the saying the enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead the good general cultivates his resources move not unless you see an advantage use not your troops unless there is something to be gained fight not unless the position is critical no ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen no general should fight a battle simply out of peak if it is to your advantage make a forward move if not stay where you are

anger may in time change to gladness vexation may be succeeded by content but a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being nor can the dead ever be brought back to life hence the enlightened ruler is heedful and the good general full of caution this is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact end of part 12. part 13 the use of spies sun tzu said raising a host of a hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the state the daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver there will be commotion at home and abroad and men will drop down exhausted on the highways as many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded in their labor hostile armies may feast each other for years striving for the victory which is decided in a single day this being so to remain in ignorance of the enemy's conditions simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments is the height of inhumanity one who acts thus is no leader of men no present help to his sovereign no master of victory thus what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and...