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Support Us at: Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksAfter the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all proportion to the facts. She was viewed by some as an irresponsible monster. Stowe defended herself by painstakingly publishing this Key, describing the actual people, incidents, statutes, court cases, news articles, advertisements, and published facts from whence she drew her material. She didn’t make anything up! Additionally, throughout this key, Stowe vents her own very strong opinions on the shameful practice of slavery, and examines, especially in Part IV, the failure of organized Christendom in both America and Europe to put a stop to the barbarity. "We must repudiate, with determined severity, the blasphemous doctrine of property in human beings." She and her famous brother, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, were very active in the Underground Railroad, raising money and endangering themselves to save countless lives. - Summary by Michele FryGenre(s): HistoryLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): civil war (149), slavery (145), Uncle Tom's cabin (3), ophelia (2), simon legree (2)Support Us at: ⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Us at:Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksProfessor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board the incredible submarine the Nautilus, courtesy of its mysterious pilot Captain Nemo and in the company of his servant Conseil and sailor Ned Land. (Introduction by Piper Hale)Genre(s): Fantastic Fiction, General Fiction, Nautical & Marine FictionLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): literature (1956), fiction (1588), science fiction (417), fantasy (317), sea stories (53)Support Us at:⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks

Support Us at: Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksProfessor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board the incredible submarine the Nautilus, courtesy of its mysterious pilot Captain Nemo and in the company of his servant Conseil and sailor Ned Land. (Introduction by Piper Hale)Support Us at: ⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks

Support Us at:Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksProfessor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board the incredible submarine the Nautilus, courtesy of its mysterious pilot Captain Nemo and in the company of his servant Conseil and sailor Ned Land. (Introduction by Piper Hale)Support Us at:⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks

Support Us at:Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksProfessor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board the incredible submarine the Nautilus, courtesy of its mysterious pilot Captain Nemo and in the company of his servant Conseil and sailor Ned Land. (Introduction by Piper Hale)Genre(s): Fantastic Fiction, General Fiction, Nautical & Marine FictionLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): literature (1956), fiction (1588), science fiction (417), fantasy (317), sea stories (53)Support Us at:⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Us:Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksBuffalo Bill was arguably, the most recognized man in the world when he penned this book. The first four stories are of some of his adventures and the remaining 6 are autobiographical. All of them have been proved to be historically accurate in all important aspects. From his service as chief scout for the 3rd Cavalry during the plains wars, to his pony express service and finally the story of how he got his nickname "Buffalo Bill", everything is larger than life. Killing 4,280 buffalo in 18 months for the railroad workers was an amazing feat. Follow along as he tells of his Indian campaigns and then his world famous "Wild West Show" later in life. The foreword gives a brief summary of this man's amazing life. He respected the Indians and urged equal rights for women, something amazing in itself for his time. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)Genre(s): Biography & AutobiographyLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): autobiography (91), old west (8), buffalo bill (6)Support Us:Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Us:Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksStarters, main courses and desserts from around the world, one dish for every day of the year. From Turkey to China, from India to England, from Austria to Egypt, a wide variety of mouth-watering cuisines are represented. Each recipe is described in one short paragraph, making this book perfect for dipping into when you’re seeking inspiration on what to cook. (Summary by Lucy Perry)Genre(s): *Non-fiction, CookingLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): food (50), recipes (44)Support Us:⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Us :Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksThis is a collection of 12 creepy stories by that master of creepiness, Poe. The Black Cat; The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven; The Tell Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, the Premature Burial and six others that are a shuddering delight to read and listen to. Turn off the lights, settle down and hear these stories read to you as only LibriVox readers can perform them. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, AnthologiesLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): horror (229), poe (18), creepy (4)Support Us :⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Us at Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been "cured" and population control is mandated and administered by the government. (Summary by Wikipedia and Laurie Anne Walden)This recording is done as a dramatic reading.Characters:Narrator: Denny SayersHospital Orderly: Mark F. SmithPainter: Alan Davis-DrakeLeora Duncan: Laurie Anne WaldenDr. Hitz: Michael YardWehling: Julian JamisonFederal Bureau of Termination hostess: Kara ShallenbergGenre(s): Dramatic Readings, Science FictionLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): short stories (700), science fiction (417), dramatic reading (41), Vonnegut (4), 2br02b (2), 2 b r 0 2 b (1)Support Us at ⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Us at ⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed "a dirty deed done in public" by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other things) venereal disease, euthanasia, and incest. The original title literally means "the ones who return," and the play is about how we can deal with the awful legacy of the past. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Mrs. Alving: Elizabeth KlettOswald Alving: mbPastor Manders: Bruce PirieJacob Engstrand: Algy PugRegina Engstrand: AvailleNarrator: J. M. SmallheerAudio edited by: mbSupport Us at ⁠⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠⁠

Support Us at Donation Page – LibriVox Free AudiobooksLibriVox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life with different reader voices for each character in our popular Dramatic Reading style. This volume includes Anne's Confession from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Coming Home from Mates of Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce [not PD in Australia or Europe], Scandal in Bohemia from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl [only PD in the US], The Valley of the Shadow of Death from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke, Five Stories from the Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, The Proof of the Pudding from The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Garden Party and A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield, and The Tale of Samuel Whisker or The Roly Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter.Cast lists:Chapter XIV, Anne's Confession, from Anne of Green GablesBC: Beth ThomasEdited By: Maria KasperAnne Shirley: RachelMarilla Cuthbert: SaskatoonieMatthew Cuthbert: Norman ElferNarrator for Anne's Confession: Kristin GjerløwChapter VI, Coming Home, from Mates at BillabongEdited By: Maria KasperNora: Beth ThomasJim: ToddHWMrs. Brown: Kristin GjerløwWally: Larry WilsonMr. Linton: Algy PugDr. Anderson: Larry WilsonCecil: Esther ben SimonidesBilly: Rosslyn CarlyleNarrator for Coming Home: Teresa BaumanScandal in Bohemia, from The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesEdited By: Maria KasperDr John Watson (who is the Narrator): Algy PugSherlock Holmes: Beth ThomasThe King of Bohemia: azureblueIrene Adler: Sarah TerryGodfrey Norton: Eden Rea-HedrickBystander: WillyIrene’s Maid: Etel BussThe Tunnel Under the WorldEdited By: Maria KasperNarrated By: SionedVGuy Burckhardt: Beth ThomasApril Horn/Janet: Kristin GjerløwSwanson: Larry WilsonMary Burckhardt: Elizabeth KlettCigarette seller/Advertiser: Norman ElferMiss Mitkin: Rosslyn CarlyleNarrator: SionedVMr. Dorchin: Bruce PirieChapter 27, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, from For the Term of His Natural LifeEdited by: TimoleonWashNarrator: Beth ThomasJemmy Vetch “The Crow”: Ali KazeraniGabbett: Truman ThamesAlick Sanders “The Moocher”: Mark ChulskyGreenhill: TimoleonWashTom Bodenham: Glenn O'Brien5 Stories from The Chronicals of ClovisRead and edited by:: Peter Yearsley: Philippa: Lucy PerryChapter 17, The Proof of the Pudding, from The Story GirlEditor: RachelBeverly/Narrator: SavannahFelicity: RachelDan: Glenn O'BrienPeter: WillyCecily: LydiaSara (The Story Girl): Beth ThomasUncle Roger: David LawrenceThe Garden PartyEdited by: Ernst PattynamaNarrator: Elizabeth KlettMeg: Kristin GjerløwMother: Beth ThomasLaura: thestorygirlTall Man: Truman ThamesPale Man: Zames CurranWorkman: Zames CurranSadie: LydiaJose: Esther ben SimonidesGodber's Man: ToddHWKitty Maitland: Jessie YunLady 1: Elizabeth KlettLady 2: NewgatenovelistLady 3: Anna SimonMr Sheridan: Ray KasperCook: MaryAnnLaurie, Hans: Amy GramourWoman 1: RapunzelinaWoman 2: Vanessa CooleyA Dill PickleEdited by : RapunzelinaNarrator: Larry WilsonVera: SavannahThomas: ToddHWThe Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or, The Roly Poly PuddingEdited by: RachelNarrator: RachelTabitha Twitchit (a mother cat): Beth ThomasRibby (Tabitha's cousin): Bria SnowMoppett (a mischievous female kitten): Kristin GjerløwMittens: SuperCoconutTom Kitten (a mischievous male kitten): Jessie YunSamuel Whiskers: WillyAnna Maria (The wife of Samuel, a villainous rat): Vanessa CooleySupport Us at ⁠Donation Page – LibriVox Free Audiobooks⁠

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateThe Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures—the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are “April is the cruelest month” (its first line); “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”; and “Shantih shantih shantih” (its last line). The title is sometimes mistakenly written as “The Wasteland”. (Summary from wikipedia.org)Donate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateThe Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: "the little sea lady") is a very well known fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. The tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theatre and animated film. But this tale is not the Disney version, all cleaned up and made pretty. This is the way Andersen wrote it. The Little Mermaid is indeed at the happy wedding of her beloved prince, but she is not the bride. And then she becomes a big bubble. Curious? Listen and find out what happens. - Summary by Wikipedia and Phil ChenevertDonate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donate"As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." This thirst for an intimate relationship with God, claims A.W. Tozer, is not for a select few, but should be the experience of every follower of Christ. But, he asserts, it is all too rare when believers have become conditioned by tradition to accept standards of mediocrity, and the church struggles with formality and worldliness. Using examples from Scripture and from the lives of saints who lived with this thirst for God, Tozer sheds light on the path to a closer walk with God. (Summary by D. Leeson)Donate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donatePhysics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite, causation, motion, time and the Prime Mover. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)Donate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateThe Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". (Introduction by Wikipedia)Donate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateI address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of characters, the formation of plots, and a host of other points with which I shall deal hereafter. Although no school could turn out novelists to order there is yet enough common material in all art-work to be mapped out in a course of lessons. I shall show that the two great requisites of novel-writing are (1) a good story to tell, and (2) ability to tell it effectively. Briefly stated, my position is this: no teaching can produce "good stories to tell," but it can increase the power of "the telling," and change it from crude and ineffective methods to those which reach the apex of developed art. - Summary from the prefaceDonate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateA biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and talked with members of his family. Written shortly after his death, it was immediately popular and this later edition gained a new audience. ( Lynne Thompson)Donate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateThis book is a primer on the philosophy of stoicism, resurrected from its origins in Greek and Roman philosophy. The original philosophy was based on a reasoning process which it was assumed would lead to a virtuous life. Zeno, the founder of stoicism, did not begin expounding on its teachings until he was in his forties. He believed that the purpose of life was "to live consistently." Cleanthes, his disciple, added "with nature," so that the purpose of life became "to live consistently with nature." - Summary by Bill BoerstDonate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate

Support Our Cause at https://libri-vox.org/donateIn 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those parts where Nietzsche examines the ascetic ideal, The Genealogy of Morals is unequalled by any other of his works; and, in the light which it throws upon the attitude of the ecclesiast to the man of resentment and misfortune, it is one of the most valuable contributions to sacerdotal psychology. (summary by the editor of the Samuel translation)Donate to LibriVox: https://libri-vox.org/donate