Robert Burns poetry

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Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (text and audio reading)

Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rushes (modernized version, Celtic Woman)

Flow Gently Sweet Afton by Robert Burns (You Tube video, including lyrics)

To a Louse by Robert Burns (eText and You Tube video)

To a Mouse by Robert Burns (You Tube video with embedded text)

Auld Lang Syne (You tube video with embedded text)

My Love is like a Red, Red Rose (song and e-Text)

Editing Burns for the 21st century has updated audio renditions of several Burns poems

With Clive in India by G. A. Henty

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Summary:?With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French–Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal–and English influence apparently at the point of extinction in India–and which ended in the final triumph of the English, both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efforts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into British hands; but these were but the sequel of the events described. (Summary by G. A. Henty).

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Running time: 13:33

Preface

Leaving Home

The Young Writer

A Brush with Privateers

The Pirates of the Pacific

Madras

The Arrival of Clive

The Siege of Arcot

The Grand Assault

The Battle of Kavaripak

The Fall of Seringam

The Fall of Seringam

An Important Mission

A Murderous Attempt

An Attempt at Murder

The Siege of Ambur

The Pirates’ Hold

A Tiger Hunt

The Capture of Gheriah

The The “Black Hole” of Calcutta

A Daring Escape

The Rescue of the White Captive

The Battle Outside Calcutta

Plassey

Plassey

Mounted Infantry

Besieged in A Pagoda

The Siege Of Madras

Masulipatam

The Defeat Of Lally

The Siege Of Pondicherry

Home

The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. Altsheler

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Summary:?This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700’s. The story follows Henry as he helps to establish a frontier outpost, is captured by an Indian tribe, and ultimately ensures the safety and security of a band of settlers against the warring Shawnee Indians. The Young Trailers is action packed and brings to life the adventures that awaited the early settlers as they traversed into the endless forests of the American frontier. (Summary by Adam E. Maroney for Librivox)

01 – Into the Unknown

02 – The First Great Exploit

03 – Lost in the Wilderness

04 – The Haunted Forest

05 – Afloat

06 – The Voice of the Woods

07 – The Giant Bones

08 – The Wild Turkey’s Gobble

09 – The Escape

 

10 – The Cave Dust

11 – The Forest Spell

12 – The Primitive Man

13 – The Call of Duty

14 – The Return

15 – The Siege

16 – A Girl’s Way

17 – The Battle In the Forest

18 – The Test

19 – An Errand and A Friend

The Tiger of Mysore by G. A. Henty

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Total running time:? 11 hours, 31 minutes

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Summary:? During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the ‘Tiger of Mysore’. (Summary by annise for Librivox)


00 – Preface

01 – A Lost Father

02 – A Brush With Privateers

03 – The Rajah

04 – First Impressions

05 – War Declared

06 – A Perilous Adventure

07 – Besieged

08 – The Invasion of Mysore

09 – News of The Captive

10 – In Disguise

11 – A Useful Friend

12 – A Tiger in A Zenana

13 – Officers of The Palace

14 – A Surprise

15 – Escape

16 – The Journey

17 – Back At Tripataly

18 – A Narrow Escape

19 – Found At Last

20 – The Escape

21 – Home

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

detail from The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West

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Total running time: 17 hours, 18 minutes

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Victory at Carillon by Henry Alexander Ogdon

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Battle during the Seven Years' War between British and Indians in North America

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Last of the Mohicans author, James Fenimore Cooper, painted by John Wesley Jarvis

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

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Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Last Mohicans, map from French and Indian War, Fort Frontenac at Cataraqui, 1685

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

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Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island Scribner's 1911

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Treasure Island, N. C. Wyeth

01 At the Admiral Benbow – 02 Black Dog Appears and Disappears

03 The Black Spot – 04 The Sea Chest

Treasure Island Blind Pew by N. C. Wyeth

05 The Last of the Blind Man – 06 The Captain’s Papers

07 I go to Bristol – 08 At the Sign of the Spy-Glass


09 Powder and Arms – 10 The Voyage

Treasure Island Preparing for Mutiny by N. C. Wyeth

11 What I Heard in the Apple Barrel – 12 Council of War

13 How my Shore Adventure happend – 14 The First Blow

15 The Man of the Island – 16 Narrative continued by the Doctor

17 Narrative continued by the Doctor – 18 Narrative continued by the Doctor

Treasure Island Jim, Long John Silver and his Parrot by N. C. Wyeth

19 Narrative resumed by Jim Hawkins – 20 Silver’s Embassy

21 The Attack – 22 How my Sea Adventure Began

23 The Ebb-Tide Runs – 24 The Voyage of the Coracle


25 I Strike the Jolly Roger – 26 Israel Hands


Treasure Island Knife Fight between Pirates by N. C. Wyeth

27 Pieces of Eight – 28 In the Enemy’s Camp

29 The Black Spot Again – 30 On Parole

31 The Treaure Hunt, Flint’s Pointer – 32 The Treasure Hunt, the Voice Among the Trees

33 The Fall of a Chieftan – 34 And Last

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

 Gullivers travels, title page

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00 – Introduction

Part 1

01 – Part 1, Chapter 1

Gulliver Grandville 02

02 – Part 1, Chapter 2
03 – Part 1, Chapter 3

Gulliver Grandville 03

04 – Part 1, Chapter 4

05 – Part 1, Chapter 5

Gulliver, Grandville

06 – Part 1, Chapter 6


07 – Part 1, Chapter 7

08 – Part 1, Chapter 8

Gulliver, Grandville

Part 2

09 – Part 2, Chapter 1
Gulliver, Grandville
10 – Part 2, Chapter 2

11 – Part 2, Chapter 3

Gulliver, Grandville

12 – Part 2, Chapter 4

13 – Part 2, Chapter 5
Gulliver, Grandville

14 – Part 2, Chapter 6

15 – Part 2, Chapter 7

Gulliver in Liliput,Bremen

16 – Part 2, Chapter 8

Part 3

17 – Part 3, Chapter 1

Gulliver color

18 – Part 3, Chapter 2

19 – Part 3, Chapter 3

The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver

20 – Part 3, Chapter 4

21 – Part 3, Chapter 5

Map of Lilliput

22 – Part 3, Chapter 6

23 – Part 3, Chapter 7

Gulliver Laputa, J.J. Grandville

24 – Part 3, Chapter 8

25 – Part 3, Chapter 9

26 – Part 3, Chapter 10

27 – Part 3, Chapter 11

Gullivers Travels

Part 4

28 – Part 4, Chapter 1

29 – Part 4, Chapter 2

30 – Part 4, Chapter 3

31 – Part 4, Chapter 4

32 – Part 4, Chapter 5

33 – Part 4, Chapter 6

34 – Part 4, Chapter 7

35 – Part 4, Chapter 8

36 – Part 4, Chapter 9

37 – Part 4, Chapter 10

38 – Part 4, Chapter 11

39 – Part 4, Chapter 12

Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony by James Otis

Jamestown Virginia settlement ships

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Total running time: 3 hours, 8 minutes

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Forward

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Virginia Fisherman Island, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia photo by Ebyabe, GNU Free documentation license
Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Captain John Smith, retouched and digitally altered derivative work by Spiderpig, GNU Free Documentation license

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Baptism of Pocahontas in Jamestown

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Oysters, Huitres, by Julienbzh35, GNU Free documentation license

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Robert Burns, selected poems

Red Rose

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Auld Lang Syne

Red, Red Rose

Winter: A Dirge

Man’s a Man for A’ That

e-text for A Man’s a Man

Comin’ Thro’ the Rye, read in Scots

Ear of rye, photo by LSDSL, released under GNU Free Documentation license

You can find several more selections from Robert Burns in the post Poems Every Child Should Know. The Burns titles in that collection are mixed in amongst other poems, so the following links may include some additional poems along with the Burns selections.

Robert Burns

Robert Bruce’s address to his army

The Banks O’ Doon

John Anderson

John Barleycorn

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To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy

Mountain Daisy, photo by Walter Siegmund, released under GNU Free Documentation license

Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wandered mony a weary fit
Sin’ auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidled i’ the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roared
Sin’ auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie’s a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right guid-willie waught

For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

O my luve’s like a red, red rose.
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my luve’s like a melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will love thee still, my Dear,
Till a’the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o’life shall run.

And fare thee weel my only Luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!

Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns

The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
The blinding sleet and snaw:
While, tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest,
And pass the heartless day.

The sweeping blast, the sky o’ercast,
The joyless winter day
Let others fear, to me more dear
Than all the pride of May:
The tempest’s howl, it soothes my soul,
My griefs it seems to join;
The leafless trees my fancy please,
Their fate resembles mine!

Thou Power Supreme, whose mighty scheme
These woes of mine fulfil,
Here firm I rest; they must be best,
Because they are Thy will!
Then all I want O do Thou grant
This one request of mine!
Since to enjoy Thou dost deny,
Assist me to resign.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe 4 by Offterdinger and Zweigle

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Robinson Crusoe chapter 12

1  Start in Life

2  Slavery and Escape

3  Wrecked on a Desert Island

Chapter 3 part 2

4  First Weeks on the Island

Chapter 4 part 2

5  Builds a House—the Journal

Robinson Crusoe 5 by Offterdinger and Zweigle

6  Ill and Conscience Stricken

7  Agricultural Experience

8  Surveys His Position

9  A Boat

10 Tames Goats

11 Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand

12  The Cave Retreat

Robinson Crusoe chapter 13

13  Wreck of a Spanish Ship

14  A Dream Realized

15  Friday’s Education

16  Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals

17  Visit of Mutineers

Robinson Crusoe chapter 18 by Offterdinger and Zweigle

18  The Ship Recovered

19  Return to England

20  Fight Between Friday and a Bear

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Cossette

There are 5 volumes in Les Miserables.  The length of this book makes it impractical to build the links for all 5 volumes.  I am including links to the pages where you can download each of the volumes as a zipped file (to burn on CD or transfer to mp3), as well links for subscribing in iTunes and links to each volume’s Internet Archive page, where you can stream each chapter individually from Librivox, if that is your preference.

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Les Miserables, Volume 1, Fantine, Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

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Running Time for Volume One:  13 hours, 46 minutes

Cosette after the Letter

Les Miserables, Volume 2, Cosette, by Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

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Total running time of Volume 2:  12 hours, 55 minutes

The Ship Orion An Accident

Les Miserables, Volume 3, Marius, by Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

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Total running time of Volume 3:  10 hours, 52 minutes

The Resurrection

Les Miserables, Volume 4, Saint-Denis, by Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

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Total running time of Volume 4: 15 hours, 35 minutes

Javert on the Hunt

Les Miserables, Volume 5, Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

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Total running time of this volume: 13 hours, 15 minutes