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LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection
by Various
Language: Multilingual
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had ’six’ in the title – in any language. The result? LibriVox in all its glorious diversity: sixty-six recordings of poetry, song, short stories, folktales, science fiction, historical documents, travel, art, science and mathematics, in Dutch, English, French and German, from Euclid to the Ziegfeld Follies. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
- LibriVox’s LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection Internet Archive page
- Zip file of the entire book 352.1MB
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Total running time: 12:19:35
In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by:
Book Coordinator: Ruth Golding
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Ruth Golding
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- 01 - The Adventure of the Six Napoleons from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) – 00:47:05
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Read by Laurie Anne Walden - 02 - Article 6 of The Constitution of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate States of America – 00:02:20
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Read by James Christopher - 03 - Le cerf-volant aux six tetes, ou l'homme du jour by Guillaume Taillerand-Perigord (Unknown) – 00:05:49
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Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet - 04 - Dedication and Preface of If, Yes, and Perhaps. Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations, with some bits of fact by Edward E. Hale (1822–1909) – 00:07:38
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Read by David Lawrence - 05 - Deep-Sea Thermometers - On Sixe's Principle from A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments by Henry Negretti (1818-1879) & Joseph Zambra (1822-1897) – 00:04:17
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Read by Garth Burton - 06 - The Elements - Book VI - Definitions by Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.) trans. John Casey (1820-1891) – 00:03:31
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Read by Availle - 07 - Eighteen Sixty-Two from Poems by Marietta Holley (1836-1926) – 00:03:20
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Read by GabrielleC - 08 - Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys - June 6, 1666 by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) – 00:06:59
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Read by Bob Gonzalez - 09 - The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm, Versified by Robert Burns (1759–1796) – 00:01:51
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Read by Bob Gonzalez - 10 - Fit the Sixth (Hunting of the Snark) by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) – 00:04:21
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Read by Rhonda Federman - 11 - Gaudriole en six couplets, dediee au plus gai de mes confreres by Unknown – 00:02:39
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Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet - 12 - General Orders No. 6 by the Confederate States of America Army. District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona – 00:04:59
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Read by TriciaG - 13 - How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World from the Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (ed.) (1844–1912) – 00:12:05
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Read by TriciaG - 14 - June 6, 1857 from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) – 00:02:21
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Read by Sue Anderson - 15 - Die Offenbarung des Johannes, Kapitel 6 from the Lutherbibel 1912 – 00:04:13
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Read by Hokuspokus - 16 - Lines to Six-foot Three from Romantic Ballads by George Borrow (1803–1881) – 00:03:42
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Read by Ruth Golding - 17 - Little Susy's Six Birthdays, Part 1 by Elizabeth Prentiss (1803–1881) – 00:38:33
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Read by Bev J. Stevens - 18 - Little Susy's Six Birthdays, Part 2 by Elizabeth Prentiss (1803–1881) – 00:45:32
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Read by Bev J. Stevens - 19 - Little Susy's Six Teachers by Elizabeth Prentiss (1803–1881) – 00:53:10
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Read by Bev J. Stevens - 20 - Ode ta Spring Sixty-four from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o’th’ Hoylus End (1836-1897) – 00:01:34
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Read by Darkmoon - 21 - On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) – 00:01:04
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Read by GabrielleC - 22 - On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) – 00:02:22
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Read by TriciaG - 23 - De ontvluchtingsgeschiedenis van een zestal zwaar veroordeelden by FR (anoniem) – 00:52:58
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Read by Anna Simon - 24 - L'Ouvrage des six jours by Louis Racine (1692–1763) – 00:04:23
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Read by Ezwa - 25 - Peter Little and the Lucky Sixpence by Henry Campkin (1815–1890) – 00:03:24
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Read by TriciaG - 26 - Sechs Brueder bei Geyer by Johann Georg Graesse (1814–1885) – 00:01:42
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Read by Elli - 27 - Die sechs Diener by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863; 1786-1859) – 00:12:18
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Read by Elli - 28 - Die sechs Falken by Karl Knortz (1841-1918) – 00:04:19
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Read by Hokuspokus - 29 - Die sechs Kirchen by Karl Muellenhoff (1818–1884) – 00:01:12
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Read by Elli - 30 - Die sechs Schwaene by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863; 1786-1859) – 00:09:38
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Read by Elli - 31 - Die sechs Waldkirschen by Alexander von Ungern Sternberg (1806–1868) – 00:19:53
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Read by Elli - 32 - Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863; 1786-1859) – 00:09:40
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Read by Elli - 33 - Seventy-Six by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) – 00:01:44
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Read by GabrielleC - 34 - Seventy-Six by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) – 00:01:59
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Read by Katie Riley - 35 - Sing a Song of Sixpence from Our old nursery rhymes, the original tunes harmonised by Alfred Moffat (1866-1950) – 00:01:23
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Read by Liberty Stump - 36 - Six and Half-a-Dozen by Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919) – 00:11:27
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Read by TriciaG - 37 - The Six Brothers from Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes (1872-1954) – 00:09:28
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Read by Annise - 38 - Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule by Almira Stillwell Cole (d. before 1894) – 00:50:21
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Read by Liberty Stump - 39 - Six Feet by an anonymous author, from Songs of dogs, an anthology (1920) ed. Robert Frothingham – 00:01:27
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Read by Rhonda Federman - 40 - Six Feet of Romance by Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) – 00:22:25
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Read by Ruth Golding - 41 - The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) – 01:07:55
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Read by Ruth Golding - 42 - Six Honest Serving-Men by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) – 00:01:19
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Read by Psudonae Vox - 43 - Six jours by Albertine Clement-Hemery (17??-18??) – 00:11:31
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Read by Ezwa - 44 - Six O'Clock by Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904) – 00:01:18
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Read by Rhonda Federman - 45 - Six Significant Landscapes by Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) from Others, an Anthology of the New Verse (1916), edited by Alfred Kreymborg (1883–1966) – 00:03:06
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Read by Ruth Golding - 46 - The Six Sillies, traditional, from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang –
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Read by Bob Gonzalez - 47 - The Six Swans by Miss Mulock (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik) (1826-1887) – 00:11:55
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Read by Rhonda Federman - 48 - Six Times Six is Thirty-six (and Six Makes Forty-two) (1917) from Ziegfeld’s midnight frolic, words by Bert Hanlon (1890-1972), music by Wm. White (unknown) – 00:02:34
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Read by Ruth Golding - 49 - Six Weeks Old by Christopher Morley (1890-1957) – 00:00:44
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Read by Laurie Anne Walden - 50 - Sixe's Self-Registering Thermometer from A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments by Henry Negretti (1818-1879) & Joseph Zambra (1822-1897) – 00:04:20
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Read by Garth Burton - 51 - The Sixpenny Calico from The Old Castle and Other Stories by anonymous authors – 00:10:07
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Read by Ruth Golding - 52 - Sixteen Dead Men from Michael Robartes and the Dancer by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) – 00:01:16
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Read by Rhonda Federman - 53 - Sixteen Years Without A Birthday from Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Brander Matthews (1852-1929) – 00:09:05
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Read by GabrielleC - 54 - Sixth Litany: Benedicta Tu from A Lover's Litanies by Eric Mackay (1851-1898) – 00:11:10
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Read by Ruth Golding - 55 - A Song of Sixty-Five by Robert W. Service (1874-1958) – 00:03:27
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Read by Katie Riley - 56 - Special Orders No. 6 by the Confederate States of America. Army. 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment – 00:04:39
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Read by TriciaG - 57 - The Squire's Sixpence by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) – 00:19:45
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Read by TriciaG - 58 - To Dick, On His Sixth Birthday by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) – 00:01:26
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Read by Diana Majlinger - 59 - To H. C. Six Years Old by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – 00:02:18
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Read by Rhonda Federman - 60 - Treaty with the Six Nations: 1784 by the United States Government (Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, compiled by Charles J. Kappler (1868-1946), published by Government Printing Office in 1904): 1784 by United States Government – 00:02:46
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Read by Laurie Anne Walden - 61 - Tuscan Schools Ch. 6 of Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies (1866-1946) – 00:12:45
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Read by Annise - 62 - Twee gedichten by Nicolaas Beets (1814-1903) – 00:03:10
Source: E-text: Zestigste Verjaardag
Source: E-text: Drieënzestigste Verjaardag
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Read by Bart de Leeuw - 63 - Twenty-Six and One by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) – 00:36:05
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Read by Winston Tharp - 64 - White Feather and the Six Giants from The Indian Fairy Book by Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889) – 00:16:26
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Read by Liberty Stump - 65 - De Zes Zwanen by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863; 1786-1859) – 00:10:56
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Read by Anna Simon - 66 - De Zesde December by Isaäc da Costa (1798-1860) – 00:05:29
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Read by Anna Simon
Cataloged on August 09, 2011
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