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The Fine Arts

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Nature and the muses are finally awakening in May. What kind of artistic feelings do the following 10 gems from our catalog awaken in you?
Building all kinds of housing – nests, burrows, hives – is a major occupation throughout the animal kingdom. One of the biggest achievements of man in this art is certainly [...]

LibriVox World Tour 2012: Asia

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Welcome to the second leg of the 2012 LibriVox World Tour! Go on a roundtrip through the Orient with 10 gems from our catalog.
Henry Morgenthau was the US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1913 – 1916. He was one of the first and most prominent people to speak out against the Armenian genocide, an [...]

Mighty Women

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

March is Women’s History Month – a perfect time to celebrate all women around you with 10 gems from our catalog.
Arabella, The Female Quixote, is a truly mighty woman. After all, she can kill with a mere look! Or so she believes… Read the wonderful parody of “Don Quixote” by Charlotte Lennox, and who [...]

Librivox World Tour 2012: Europe

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Welcome to the first leg ouf our World Tour 2012! Follow 10 gems from our catalog on a round trip through the Old World…
Let’s start in the West, in lovely green Ireland, where Clodagh, daughter of The Gambler Dennis Asshlin fights for her family’s honor – by marrying the wrong man. Find out in [...]

Improve Yourself!

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Happy New Year to everyone!
New Year – New Resolutions, which are more often than not thrown out shortly after the Christmas decorations. But maybe the following 10 gems from our catalog help you keep them for longer this year.
Top Resolution #1 is doing less of stuff: drinking, smoking, eating… The successful treatment in [...]

Spiritual December

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The year draws to a close, and many people use this time for retro- and introspection. Maybe the folllowing 10 gems from our catalog will help you on your spiritual journey.
Let’s start with the obvious: Christmas! You know the story: Bethlehem, manger, shepherds, star, three wise men,… Well, there is also the Story of [...]

Correspondence

Monday, October 31st, 2011

November makes the last leaves fall as well as the temperature – a great time to stay at home and get in touch with friends… To get you in the write mood, we present 10 corresponding gems from our catalog.
The Cathay poems, written by Ezra Pound, or rather, tranlated from the Japanese and Chinese, [...]

Scientific Studies

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

Schools and universities have started again after summer. Why not use 10 gems of our catalogue to catch up on the vast field of science?
Now…where to start… Well, probably at the beginning: Charles Darwin waited over 10 years before publishing his results on evolution, and his seminal work applying it to humans The Descent of [...]

Different Tongues

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

September 26 is the “European Day of Languages” to promote language learning. We at librivox do that all-year-round with recordings in more than 30 different languages. And we’ll present the following 10 gems from our non-english catalog:
The Ancient Greeks are considered the fathers of Western culture, and at that time, Greek was indeed the lingua [...]

Happy Birthday Librivox !

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Librivox’ 6th Birthday is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the most important part of it: Our readers! And that it’s all about equality on here is proven by the fact that our top 10 praised readers during the last year are 5 men and 5 women.
Ladies first:
Elizabeth Klett, professor of literature, expert knitter and drama [...]