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Weekly Picks: Call of the Wild by Jack London

Posted on September 30, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 1 Comment on Weekly Picks: Call of the Wild by Jack London

Read by Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette.

A considerable portion of projects in our catalog here at LibriVox are what we call collaborative works. These are completed works that have been read by multiple people, often one person to each chapter or two. If you’re unfamiliar with these collaborative works, Call of the Wild by Jack London is a great place to start. The four readers that contributed to this book (Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette) all do a wonderful job lending their own voice and style to a great classic. Each reader presents the story in a slightly different way, reflecting the great diversity at LibriVox.

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What is this? Every week the volunteers at Librivox pick a different recording to present to our listeners. The spotlighted recordings vary from week to week in order to call attention to the variety of works available here at Librivox and to show how much we appreciate all the effort and work our readers put into each project. The featured selection may be poetry, novels, short stories or non-fiction. All of them can be found within our growing catalog and are available for download. Want to learn more?

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Weekly Picks: The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry

Posted on September 21, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 2 Comments on Weekly Picks: The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry

Read by William Coon.

This week we present William Coon reading the story of the Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry. In this short story you’ll hear the very funny tale of Major Pendleton Talbot “of Mobile sir” in which William personifies the ante-bellum southern noble so well. William gives us a wonderful reading of a greatly amusing story. Listen to the whole story and find out exactly why Hargraves is so openly said to be duplicitous.

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What is this? Every week the volunteers at Librivox pick a different recording to present to our listeners. The spotlighted recordings vary from week to week in order to call attention to the variety of works available here at Librivox and to show how much we appreciate all the effort and work our readers put into each project. The featured selection may be poetry, novels, short stories or non-fiction. All of them can be found within our growing catalog and are available for download. Want to learn more?

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Weekly Picks: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Posted on September 15, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: 3 Comments on Weekly Picks: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Read by Mark F. Smith

In The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame presents a cast of colorful animal characters having adventures along the banks of the River. Mark Smith reads about the lives of these characters in the style of a bedside storyteller, giving each animal its own voice that clearly reflects the animal’s personality. Simple-minded Mole speaks with a slow drone, while his easy-living friend Ratty has a high, wheezy tone. In one charming scene, Badger, a grumpy hermit, gruffly lectures the wayward Mr. Toad, who responds in the petulant accent of an aristocrat. Smith’s performance of these voices, and his equally engaging narration, makes listening to The Wind in the Willows fun for both children and adults.

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What is this? Every week the volunteers at Librivox pick a different recording to present to our listeners. The spotlighted recordings vary from week to week in order to call attention to the variety of works available here at Librivox and to show how much we appreciate all the effort and work our readers put into each project. The featured selection may be poetry, novels, short stories or non-fiction. All of them can be found within our growing catalog and are available for download. Want to learn more?

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Weekly Picks: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Posted on September 7, 2006 by | Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Picks | Comments: Comments Off on Weekly Picks: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Read by John Greenman.

Mark Twain’s humor, sometimes blunt and sometimes subtle, presents a particular problem for an audio book. The narrator must simultaneously play both the straight man and the joker while balancing Twain’s characters between realistic and quirky. In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain switches the place of Prince Edward of England with his look-alike double, a poor boy named Tom. In telling the story, Twain adapts his Midwestern humorist style to antiquated English. This combination of styles presents a further challenge to vocal interpretation, but reader John Greenman brings the listener into the London of 1547 with a wry tone and deft characterizations.

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What is this? Every week the volunteers at Librivox pick a different recording to present to our listeners. The spotlighted recordings vary from week to week in order to call attention to the variety of works available here at Librivox and to show how much we appreciate all the effort and work our readers put into each project. The featured selection may be poetry, novels, short stories or non-fiction. All of them can be found within our growing catalog and are available for download. Want to learn more?

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