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Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes. (Summary by Ray Clare)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - G. K. Chesterton
• LibriVox’s Varied Types Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book 137.3 MB

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 - June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children’s stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books. Many of his outdoor observations in nature were used as plots for his stories. In his first book, ‘Old Mother West Wind,’ published in 1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories. These characters include Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Sammy Jay, Bobby Raccoon, Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog, Billy Mink, Jerry Muskrat, Spotty the Turtle and of course, Old Mother West Wind and her Merry Little Breezes. Note to parents of very small children: in Chapter 15, little Tommy Trout gets eaten by a pickerel. (Summary by Wikipedia and Laurie Anne Walden.)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Thornton W. Burgess
• LibriVox’s Old Mother West Wind Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book 47.5MB

Sur l’avis de son beau-père, malgré sa réticence, le laboureur Germain, veuf de vingt-huit ans, va se rendre à Fourche pour rencontrer celle qui deviendra peut-être la nouvelle mère de ces trois petits enfants, la fille du père Léonard, jeune veuve elle aussi.
Apprenant ce déplacement, la mère Guillette demande qu’il emmène avec lui sa fille, Marie, qui s’en va travailler comme bergère dans la région.
En cours de route, la nuit tombent. Le brouillard se lève et les voilà perdus, dans les bois, au bord d’une mare:

His father-in-law insisting upon it, Germain goes to Fourche to meet a young widow who might become the new mother of his three children.
Doing so, he accompanies Marie, a young girl from his village, who is going to work on a farm in that area.
As the night comes, they get lost in a wood, next to a pool:

(Summary by Ezwa)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia (français) - George Sand
• Wikipedia (English) - George Sand
• Wikipedia (français) - La mare au diable
• LibriVox’s La mare au diable Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (100.9MB)

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time.

(Summary by Laura Caldwell)

• Mainlesson e-text
• Wikipedia - John H. Haaren
• LibriVox’s Famous Men of Greece Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (129.3MB)

‘Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible included in the collected works known as the Writings. Psalms were written by various writers, including Israel’s King David. The Book of Psalms is divided into five books: Book 1 - Psa. 1-41; Book 2 - Psa. 42-72; Book 3 - Psa. 73-89; Book 4 - Psa. 90-106; and Book 5 - Psa. 107-150. The collection includes the following types of psalm, among others: Psalms for praise, guidance, consolation, recognition of God’s creation, the need for repentance. Certain Psalms, such as Psa. 22 and Psa. 110 are accepted by Christians and certain Jews as messianic or containing messianic prophecies.’
(From Wikipedia, modified by Sam Stinson)

• E-text
• Wikipedia - American Standard Version
• Wikipedia - Psalms
• Wikipedia - David
• LibriVox’s The Book of Psalms Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (143.8MB)

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, ‘The Point of Honor’ (English title: ‘The Duel’) features two French Hussar officers, D’Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusively; he aggressively pursues every opportunity to locate and duel his foe. As the story progresses, D’Hubert also finds himself caught up in the contest, unable to back down or walk away.

This Conrad short story evidently has its genesis in the real duels that two French Hussar officers fought in the Napoleonic era. Their names were Dupont and Fournier, which Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into D’Hubert and Fournier into Feraud. In 1977, it was turned into a movie, ‘The Duellists’, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. (summary adapted from Wikipedia)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Joseph Conrad
• Wikipedia - on the movie ‘The Duellists’ (1977) based on this story
• LibriVox’s The Point of Honor Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (101 MB)

Effi Briest ist die Titelfigur des gleichnamigen Romans von Theodor Fontane, der in Buchform erstmals 1895 erschienen ist. Als Erscheinungsjahr wurde auf dem Titelblatt 1896 angegeben.

Der Gesellschaftsroman wird dem bürgerlichen Realismus zugeordnet und spielt vor dem Hintergrund des durch strenge Normen festgelegten Lebens im Kaiserreich unter Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck. Der Roman beruht auf einer wahren Begebenheit, der Ehebruchgeschichte der Freifrau Elisabeth von Ardenne, geboren 1853. (Zusammenfassung aus Wikipedia)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Theodor Fontane (in German)
• Wikipedia - Theodor Fontane (in English)
• Wikipedia - Effi Briest (in German)
• Wikipedia - Effi Briest (in English)
• LibriVox’s Effi Briest Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (328 MB)

Apparently, this is ‘an authentic wax cylinder recording of Whitman reading from his late poem ‘America’ thats appeared in 1888 :’

FirstSounds.org has gathered some of the earliest sound recordings. This clip, dating back to 1860, features someone singing the French folksong ‘Au Clair de la Lune’ on April 9, 1860, and it ‘is the earliest audibly recognizable record of the human voice yet recovered.’

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