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This project has a dedicated proof-listener who will listen to all sections: Kitty
Section | Title | Reader | Notes | Listen Url | Status |
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1 | Thusnelda in the triumphal procession of Germanicus, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (born at Munich, October 1, 1826. Died there, July 21, 1886), painting frontispiece | Kitty | PL OK | ||
2 | Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note | Kitty | PL OK | ||
3 | How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus | Kitty | PL OK | ||
4 | An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
5 | Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker | Kitty | PL OK | ||
6 | Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh | idcmate | PL OK | ||
7 | Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note | Kikisaulite | PL OK | ||
8 | How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann | Kikisaulite | PL OK | ||
9 | The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827), painting p. 36 | Kitty | PL OK | ||
10 | The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsend Brady | Foon | PL OK | ||
11 | Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles | jbarbacc | PL OK | ||
12 | Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 48 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
13 | Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
14 | Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note | Kitty | PL OK | ||
15 | How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
16 | Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
17 | The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
18 | The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
19 | Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note | Foon | PL OK | ||
20 | The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
21 | The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of Arthur Gilman | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
22 | German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
23 | The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
24 | John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva March Tappan | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
25 | Germany Part V: From the Reformation to the death of Frederick the Great: Historical note | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
26 | Martin Luther as a boy (about 1500), by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
27 | The sacking of Magdeburg (1631), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
28 | The giant regiment of Frederick William I of Prussia (between 1713 and 1740), by Thomas Carlyle | GregGiordano | PL OK | ||
29 | The childhood of Frederick the Great (about 1720), by Thomas Carlyle | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
30 | Frederick the Great and the First Silesian War (1740-1745), by Thomas Babington Macaulay | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
31 | The round table of Frederick the Great at Sans Souci, by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905), painting p. 178 | Foon | PL OK | ||
32 | Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note | moniaqua | PL OK | ||
33 | Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
34 | Morning prayers in the Bach family, by Toby Edward Rosenthal (American painter, 1848), painting p. 190 | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
35 | Handel, the master of Oratorio (1685-1759), by L. B. Urbino | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
36 | The unwritten overture of Mozart (1756-1791), by Heribert Rau | ToddHW | PL OK | ||
37 | A visit to Beethoven (1770-1827), by Richard Wagner | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
38 | Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
39 | The oath at the grave of Frederick the Great (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt) | GregGiordano | PL OK | ||
40 | Why the philosopher's letter was not mailed (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M. Mundt) | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
41 | The Queen of Prussia's ride (1806), by A. L. A. Smith | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
42 | William of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, by Anton von Werner (Germany, 1843), painting p. 236 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
43 | The troubles of a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), from "All the Year Round" | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
44 | German wounded in the Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles, by Victor Bachereau-Reverchon (French artist, 1842), painting p. 248 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
45 | The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
46 | Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
47 | Bismarck in the Reichstag and at home (about 1880), by George Makepeace Towle | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
48 | Student life at the German universities (about 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
49 | A day with the German Emperor (1898), by Maurice Leudet | Horner94 | PL OK | ||
50 | The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
51 | The Netherlands Part I: From the Roman conquest to the Reformation: Historical note | Kikisaulite | PL OK | ||
52 | Besieging a Roman camp (54 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes | Kikisaulite | PL OK | ||
53 | The rebellion of Civilis (69 A.D.), by Caius Cornelius Tacitus | Kikisaulite | PL OK | ||
54 | How Count William of Holland was made a knight (1247), from the old chronicles | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
55 | How Philip van Artevelde was made Governor of Ghent (1386), by Sir John Froissart | kissy | PL OK | ||
56 | The childhood of Charles V: a reading by Erasmus, by Eduard Jean Conrad Hamman (Belgian painter, 1819), painting p. 302 | Foon | PL OK | ||
57 | The Netherlands Part II: How Holland won her freedom: Historical note | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
58 | The ''beggars'' of Holland (1566), by John Lothrop Motley | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
59 | The siege of Leyden (1574), by John Lothrop Motley | flup | PL OK | ||
60 | The assassination of William the Silent (1584), by John Lothrop Motley | kissy | PL OK | ||
61 | Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
62 | How a turf-boat captured the city of Breda (1590), by G. T. Hoare | Foon | PL OK | ||
63 | The Netherlands Part III: The period of commercial greatness: Historical note | Foon | PL OK | ||
64 | How a mud-hole became a garden, by William Elliot Griffis | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
65 | When the pilgrim fathers went to Holland (1608), by William Bradford | RuthP | PL OK | ||
66 | The surrender of Breda, by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660), painting p. 368 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
67 | The escape of Hugo de Groot (1621), by Frederick Spencer Bird | Foon | PL OK | ||
68 | The return of Spinoza (about 1653), by Israel Zangwill | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
69 | The rival tulip-growers (1672), by Alexandre Dumas | ToddHW | PL OK | ||
70 | When William III of England came home to his fatherland (1691), by Thomas Babington Macaulay | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
71 | The Netherlands Part IV: Little stories of Netherland artists: Historical note | Foon | PL OK | ||
72 | King Philip presenting Rubens to Velasquez, by Leon y Escosura (Spanish artist, 1834-1901), painting p. 406 | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
73 | Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), by Theodore Child | Nella | PL OK | ||
74 | Anton Vandyck (1599-1641), by Clara Erskine Clement | Foon | PL OK | ||
75 | Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'', by Théophile Gautier | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
76 | The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Ryn (born at Leyden, 1607. Died in 1669), painting p. 414 | Foon | PL OK | ||
77 | Rembrandt in his studio, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 416 | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
78 | The Netherlands Part V: The Netherlands in recent years: Historical note | Foon | PL OK | ||
79 | The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon | flup | PL OK | ||
80 | Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge | Foon | PL OK | ||
81 | The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge | Foon | PL OK | ||
82 | In and out of a cab in Amsterdam, by F. Hopkinson Smith | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
83 | The beloved Queen Wilhelmina (born in 1880), by William Elliot Griffis | Foon | PL OK | ||
84 | Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note | iBeScotty | PL OK | ||
85 | The siege of the Lake-Dwellers, by Sir Arthur Helps | iBeScotty | PL OK | ||
86 | The flight of the Helvetians (58 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
87 | The Devil's Bridge over the Reuss, by H. A. Guerber | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
88 | Switzerland Part II: How the Swiss gained their freedom: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
89 | The meeting at the Rütli (1307), by Heinrich Zschokke | RobMarland | PL OK | ||
90 | The shot of William Tell (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | ToddHW alanmapstone moniaqua Stoofy catharmaiden Kitty WiltedScribe neecheelok70 mightyfelix bluechien NemoR benderca Foon aaronwhite1977 fsurget flup | PL OK | ||
91 | Tell's escape (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Kitty WiltedScribe neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
92 | Song of the Battle of Morgarten (1315), by Felicia Dorothea Hemans | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
93 | The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury | rumpledpoetry | PL OK | ||
94 | Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
95 | The Baron of Raron and the ''Mazze'' (fifteenth century), by J. Wilson | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
96 | Peace or war ? (1474), by Sir Walter Scott | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
97 | How the Swiss met Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1476) by Heinrich Zschokke | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
98 | The milk porridge incident: a story of the Reformation, by Clarence Rook | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
99 | The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott | iBeScotty | PL OK | ||
100 | The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester | Kitty | PL OK | ||
101 | Switzerland Part IV: Stories of Alpine adventure: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
102 | Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
103 | The slide of Alpnach, by L. A. Gilbert | Availle | PL OK | ||
104 | The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
105 | Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
106 | Switzerland Part V: Life in the mountains: Historical note | moniaqua | PL OK | ||
107 | Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan | Kitty | PL OK | ||
108 | The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
109 | How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook | Availle | PL OK | ||
110 | How the Swiss built the greatest tunnel in the world, by Francis Fox | Kitty | PL OK |