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More listening choices

Posted on January 16, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: Comments Off on More listening choices

Here are this week’s ideas for listening:

A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs

The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter

Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens

The Awful German Language by Mark Twain

The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius

High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

唐诗三百首,卷一 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1 (in Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin and Taiwanese)

Les liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos

We hope you find something you enjoy!

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Our picks for your listening pleasure

Posted on January 9, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: 6 Comments on Our picks for your listening pleasure

Every week or so, we will be selecting a number of recordings that we think you may enjoy, including classics and less well-known items.

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo

Howards End by E. M. Forster

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Ellen Clacy

The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Der Selbstmordverein by Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow

Poetics by Aristotle

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

We hope you enjoy our selection!

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LibriVox Community Podcast #94

Posted on January 2, 2009 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on LibriVox Community Podcast #94

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #94 hosted by Cori Samuel. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_94.mp3]
Duration 18:19

This week Redaer, Great Plains and icyjumbo talk about their favourite audio of 2008, while Cloud Mountain wishes LibriVoxers well in 2009.
Mentioned titles include:
http://librivox.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream-by-william-shakespeare/
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13197 (Faust, in German, still needing readers)

http://librivox.org/captain-blood-by-rafael-sabatini/
http://librivox.org/elusive-isabel-by-jacques-futrelle/

http://podiobooks.com/title/singularity
http://podiobooks.com/title/the-immortals
http://podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=solar+clipper
http://librivox.org/the-elusive-pimpernel-by-baroness-emmuska-orczy/
http://librivox.org/el-dorado-by-baroness-orczy/
http://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-by-mark-twain-2/

The Bloopettes are Robinsgirl and TriciaG, with a jingle from Bosco, in the public domain at archive.org.

Andy Minter has an End of Year Quiz – see this thread for the full file link and more information.

Oh, yes, poetry from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and Walt Whitman, via kayray, and Cloud Mountain.

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New Year’s Picks

Posted on December 31, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, Weekly Picks | Comments: 3 Comments on New Year’s Picks

For our worldwide community, here are our New Year’s picks for your cold winter evenings or hot sunny days:

Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Die Elixiere des Teufels by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
Paddeltje, de scheepsjongen van Michiel de Ruijter by Johan Been
Varney, the Vampyre Volume 1 by Thomas Preskett Prest
Stops, or How To Punctuate by Paul Allardyce
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Best wishes from us all at Librivox for a happy and healthy New Year!

Please note: not all of these may be in the Public Domain in all countries of the world. Please check before downloading.

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