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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 (though written nearly...

Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by AMY

Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by BWB

Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by DL

Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by Elli

Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by FS

Adam and Eve by John Milton (1608 - 1674)

"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories about life and conditions in different camps and forts in which she lived with her expanding family, people along the way, and Journeys."(Summary by Stav Nisser)

00 - Preface

01 - Germany and the Army

02 - I Joined the Army

03 - Army House-Keeping

04 - Down the Pacific Coast

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes (1844 - 1926)

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, for his family. He states that he started wri...

02 – Cambridge 1828-1831

03 – Voyage of the ‘Beagle’ from December 27, 1831, to October 2, 1836

04 – From my return to England, October 2, 1836 … to our settling at Down, September 14, 1842

05 – Residence at Down From September 14, 1842, to the Present Time, 1876 and My Several Publications

06 – Written May 1st, 1881

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin

A young woman who inherits a beautiful diamond known as The Moonstone on her eighteenth birthday becomes the center of this mystery story.  The diamond is a gift from an uncle who once served as an army officer in British India. She proudly wears the jewel on her dress at her birthday party that nig...

00 – Prologue

01 – First Period: Chapter I

02 – First Period: Chapter II

03 – First Period: Chapter III

04 – First Period: Chapter IV

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford etc.). Mrs. Gaskell begins with Round the Sofa, a short story which she...

Round the Sofa

My Lady Ludlow Part 1

My Lady Ludlow Part 2

My Lady Ludlow Part 3

My Lady Ludlow Part 4

Round the Sofa by  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865)

Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia)

10b - Mliss, ch. 3-4

17 - Bulger's Reputation

18 - In the Tules

19 - A Convert of the Mission

20 - The Indiscretion of Elsbeth

Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)

If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with the faculty of speech, or gazelles that are overseers for native princes, or hares that eat flesh. No, indeed; only the native-born know of these; and, judging by...

00 To My Readers

01 The Monkey, the Shark, and the Washerman’s Donkey

02 The Hare and the Lion

03 The Lion, the Hyena, and the Rabbit

04 The Kites and the Crows

Zanzibar Tales by George W. Bateman

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his intellectual cousin, Sue....

1-04 Part First - Chapter 4

1-05 Part First - Chapter 5

1-06 Part First - Chapter 6

1-07 Part First - Chapter 7

1-08 Part First - Chapter 8

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night.  Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Deceiving Shadows

The Devil

Fear

The House of the Nightmare

The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 009 by Various

'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, who desires to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story ...

Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 17

Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 19

Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 20

Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 21

Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 22

Job, The by Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)

A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa.  Includes some thought on alien philosophies and how to apply them to moral and so...

00 – Preface and Introduction

01 – Are There More Worlds Than One?

02 – A Visit to the Moon

03 – A Visit to Mars

04 – A Glimpse of Jupiter

Life in a Thousand Worlds by William Shuler Harris

This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced (much to his chagrin) to pose as a pacifist. He becom...

02 - The Village Named Morality

03 - The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic

04 - Andrew Amos

05 - Various Doings in the West

06 - The Skirts of the Coolin

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan (1875 - 1940)

仰望春天

飞鸟与鱼
作者：泰戈尔
中文朗读者：福娜、图玛、容颜、孔林、Helen、浅秋。
英文朗读者：福娜、小土、Ella、婧暄、容颜、图玛、孔林、Helen。

飞鸟与鱼

苔丝-合成1

苔丝-合成-2

苔丝-合成-3

静读—书途同闺

Asymptote is a global journal dedicated to literary translation, created by a team of writers and translators from over 25 different countries. In our new podcast, we explore the most fascinating, eclectic and unsung stories in international literature. Each episode travels far and wide to bring you...

In today’s thrilling conversation with author and translator Matthew Landrum, Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak explores the compelling poetry of Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir and the renaissance of Faroese literature as spotlighted in Asymptote’s Spring issue. Nine Faroese authors from multiple generations are represented in our Special Feature organized in partnership with FarLit. The showcase, which readers can access here, affords a rare glimpse into literature from the Faroes. In addition to contextualizing Faroese literature and sharing how he came to translate Faroese literature, Matthew Landrum also reads in English a dramatic excerpt of Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir’s eerie and existential poem. Listen to the podcast now.

Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Matthew Landrum on Faroese Writer Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir

The third Asymptote Podcast episode for 2024 explores a chapter in the life of Vladimir Nabokov during his time in the United States (where he became a citizen in 1945). With his spouse, Vera, and son, Dimitri, he travelled across the America West at the dawn of the mid-nineteenth century. It’s estimated that Nabokov chalked up some 150,000 miles of travel by train and automobile, to Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and other destinations in the Western United States. His curiosity for the West was supported by his interest in butterflies. The Russian American writer, known for his novels including Lolita and Pale Fire, was also a dedicated scientist of butterflies (a lepidopterist). Dr. Corrine Scheiner, the Maytag Professor of Comparative Literature at Colorado College, joins Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak in conversation about Nabokov’s twin passions: literature and lepidoptera. She explores how his scientific and aesthetic concerns converged in many of his writings. Dr. Scheiner also discusses, in depth, Nabokov’s work as a translator and his approach to self-translation. The episode was recorded in several locations within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where Nabokov researched and began writing Lolita. She shares readings that are often peppered with his acerbic wit regarding his experience with critics and the art of translation. Of course, the discussion would not be complete without insight from a contemporary lepidopterist.  From the conservatory within the Butterfly Pavilion, Shiran Hershcovich provides a unique perspective on the families of butterflies Nabokov likely encountered on his “hunts.”  Listen to the podcast now.

Asymptote Podcast: Nabokov and the Butterflies

In the second podcast episode centering on contributors to Asymptote’s landmark 50th issue, Danish-Norwegian author Kristin Vego joins Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak in conversation. Her story, "All Things Lovely," as translated by Jennifer Russell, represents her debut in the English language. Vego’s story also arrives at a moment when Norwegian literature is receiving global attention with last year‘s Nobel Prize in Literature going to Jon Fosse. Kristin Vego speaks of the “ghost of childhood” inhabiting a story of a young girl leaning into adulthood during a summer holiday within a Nordic landscape. Russell’s translation of Kristin Vego’s story sits alongside new work from 35 countries and 21 languages in the Winter 2024 issue, dedicated to the theme of coexistence. Listen to the podcast now.

Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Kristin Vego

Esteemed translator David Unger joins our new Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak for a conversation with readings of the poetry of Jaime Barrios Carillo. Born in Guatemala City in 1954 and living in Stockholm since 1981, Carrillo is known principally as a writer and columnist. His Two Poems from the Spanish Language volume Ángeles sin dios (Angels Without God; Ediciones Fenix), make their English language debut in the milestone 50th issue of  Asymptote, himself well acquainted with the social and political landscapes of Guatemala, provides rare insight into Carillo’s vision and style, influenced by the tradition of what Chilean Nicanor Parra called the Anti-poem. David Unger’s translations of Carrillo’s Two Poems sit alongside new work from 35 countries and 21 languages in the Winter 2024 issue dedicated to the theme of coexistence christened "Me | You | Us." Listen to the podcast now.

Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with David Unger

It’s Steve Lehman’s final episode as our podcast editor, and we’re going out with a bang: a timely interview with the Ethiopian writer and translator Bethlehem Attfield. In this episode, Bethlehem talks with Steve about co-translating Mulugeta Alebachew’s short story “Heaven Without Prickly Pears” for our Summer 2021 issue. She also discusses the lack of representation of African vernacular languages in English translation, and her mission to change that by advocating for Ethiopian literature on the world stage. The episode wraps up with an excerpt of the short story, read first in the original Amharic by the author, followed by Bethlehem with her English cotranslation. Listen to the podcast now!

Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Bethlehem Attfield

Asymptote Podcast

Now the interesting facts about birds we have always with us. We can find them out for ourselves, which is a very pleasant thing to do, or we can take the word of others, of which there is no lack. But it is the quaint fancies about birds which are in danger of being lost. The long-time fancies whic...

Preface

The Disobedient Woodpecker

Mother Magpie's Kindergarten

The Gorgeous Goldfinch

King of the Birds

Curious Book of Birds, The by Abbie Farwell Brown (1871 - 1927)

This is Part Two of Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War.After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench warfare) the Allied Forces planned to ...

07 - Operations: Sept. 1-3; Drocourt-Queant Line - continued

08 - After the Battle

09 - No Man's Land

01 - Planning Attack on Hindenburg Line

02 - Wayside Scenes

Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras by John Frederick Bligh Livesay (1875 - 1944)

This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on vario...

How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (Preface)

An Attempt towards an International Language: Part I: First, Second and Third Problems

The Aural System (version 2)

A Short System of English Grammar

Pro Patria: A Latin Story for Beginners

LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 004 by Various

Books 1 and 2.  Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. The book concerns the structure of society (as represented figuratively by the frontispiece, showing the state giant made up of individuals).  In the boo...

01 – Of Sense

02 – Of Imagination

03 – Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations

04 – Of Speech

05 – Of Reason and Science

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman. However, one of them is lying to her after she discovers that her father's death wasn't na...

01 - The Smuggled Supper

02 - Biography in the Bedroom

I Say No by Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)

Literature Podcasts / Page 270

Adam and Eve by John Milton (1608 - 1674)

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Marth...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865)

Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)

Zanzibar Tales by George W. Bateman

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 009 by Various

Job, The by Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)

Life in a Thousand Worlds by William Shuler Harris

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan (1875 - 1940)

静读—书途同闺

Asymptote Podcast

Curious Book of Birds, The by Abbie Farwell Brown (1871 - 1927)

Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov...

LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 004 by Various

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and...

I Say No by Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)

Lone Ranger Rides, The by Fran Striker (1903 - 1962)

Fair Barbarian, A by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924)

Short Story Collection Vol. 021 by Various

Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982)

More Goops and How Not to Be Them by Frank Gelett Burgess (1886 - 1951)

semi-prose

史记中的故事

Short Poetry Collection 031 by Various

Writers Blocast

Hamlet (version 3) by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors, The by Various

Mattinate Napoletane by Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860 - 1934)

Topsy the Elephant

Podcast – The Heart of the Mind

"Merlin's Pants!"

Short Poetry Collection 091 by Various

Singsing nang Dalagang Marmol, Ang by Isabelo de los Reyes (1864 - 1938)

Days with the Great Composers by May Gillington Byron (1861 - 1936)

Clear Crystals by Clara Frances McKee Beede (1875 - 1965)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

Celibates by George Moore (1852 - 1933)

Red Dust, The by Murray Leinster (1896 - 1975)

Brass Bottle, The by F. Anstey (1856 - 1934)

Golden Age, The by Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932)

Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection (from The Spell of the Yukon) by ...

Dan By Dan

Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

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Way of the World, The by William Congreve (1670 - 1729)

Summer's Afternoon, A by Benjamin King (1857 - 1894)