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Richard Wagner: The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays (left click to play or right click ?save as? to download)
This story is an excerpt from the book Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper.?Download the entire book as a zipped file?OR?Subscribe to the entire book in iTunes
Run time: 14 minutes
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Verdi: The Story of the Little Boy Who Loved the Hand Organ (left click to play or right click ?save as? to download)
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Frederic Francois Chopin: The Story of a Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies (left click to play or right click ?save as? to download)
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A children’s version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won’t be able to show the paintings but the descriptions and the anecdotes are interesting and may lead a child to further interest. – Summary by Susan Morin
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Run time: 6:30
Summary:?Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins’ boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, except what she has picked up on her own. Her future looks unchanging until she is given, on a whim, a devotional book called “Little Pillows,” in which she learns that she is valuable to God as His child. She endures trials from many fronts and the prejudice of haughty, rich Margaret, with whom she has more in common than she thinks, on her journey with God. (Introduction by TriciaG for Librivox)
Run time: 6:54
Richard Scary on Ancient Ruins.
Summary:
VIRGIL (70 BC – 19 BC), translated by John DRYDEN (1631 – 1700)
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Cartheginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)
Running time: 13 hours, 40 minutes
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Book 1: A Fateful Haven, part 1
Book 1: A Fateful Haven, part 2
Book 2: How they took the City, part 1
Book 2: How they took the City, part 2
Book 3: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, part 1
Book 3: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, part 2
Book 4: The Passion of the Queen, part 1
Book 4: The Passion of the Queen, part 2
Book 5: Games and a Conflagration, part 1
Book 5: Games and a Conflagration, part 2
Book 6: The World Below, part 1
Book 6: The World Below, part 2
Book 7: Juno Served by a Fury, part 1
Book 7: Juno Served by a Fury, part 2
Book 8: Arcadian Allies, part 1
Book 8: Arcadian Allies, part 2
Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 1
Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 2
Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 1
Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 2
Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 1
Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 2
Summary: David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David’s father, who is sick dies, and David is left stranded in a little farming town. No one can read his father’s handwriting on the notes he’s left for David or his signature, and David doesn’t know his last name. A stern farmer and his wife take David in, and learn more from him than they realize! David, who counts only the sunny hours of his life, soon touches all the people’s lives he meets in his new life with his beautiful violin music and sunny disposition. (Summary by Mary Anderson for Librivox)
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Total running time: 6 hours, 50 minutes
06 – Nuisances Necessary and Otherwise
07 – You’re Wanted, You’re Wanted!
12 – Answers That Did Not Answer
The Apology of Socrates is Plato’s version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of “corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel” (24b). “Apology” here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word “apologia”) of speaking in defense of a cause or of one’s beliefs or actions. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Summary:
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of huge grey bulks moving under the surface. The woods are places where chittering cries move about above your head, as powerful apes move swiftly in the canopy of leaves. Then, a tree splinters nearby, and a dinosaur steps out from his hiding place… and he’s eyeing YOU.
Jurassic Park? Not quite. The Lost World was an inspiration for Jurassic Park; in fact, a character in J.P. has the same name as one of the chief characters in The Lost World. It also inspired King Kong. But this is the original! Four adventurers go off to find the place shown in a dead man’s sketch book – they find a war between apes and Indians, prowling dinosaurs, a sparkly treasure hidden in the blue clay – they find the Lost World. And because of the treachery of a native guide, their means of escape is destroyed! (courtesy of Librivox)
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Running time: 8 hours, 23 minutes
1: There are Heroisms All Round Us
2: Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger
3: He is a Perfectly Impossible Person
4: It’s Just the Biggest Thing in the World
7: Tomorrow we Disappear into the Unknown
8: The Outlying Pickets of the New World
9: Who Could Have Foreseen It?
10: The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened!
12: It Was Dreadful in the Forest
13: A Sight Which I Shall Never Forget
14: Those Were the Real Conquests
Summary: ?This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures. (Introduction by Henry Gilbert)
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Total running time: 10 hours, 9 minutes
1: Preface and How Arthur Was Made King and Won His Kingdom
2: Sir Balin and the Stroke Dolorous
3: How Lancelot was Made a Knight, The Four Witch Queens, and the Adventures at the Chapel Perilous
5: How Sir Tristram Kept His Word
7: How Sir Percevel Was Taught Chivalry, and Ended the Evil Wrought by Sir Balin’s Dolorous Stroke
8: How Sir Owen won the Earldom of the Fountain
9: Of Sir Lancelot and the Fair Maid of Astolat
10: How the Three Good Knights Achieved the Holy Graal
11: Of the Plots of Sir Mordred; and How Sir Lancelot Saved the Queen
12: Of Sir Gawaine’s Hatred, and the War with Sir Lancelot
13: Of the Rebellion of Mordred and the Death of King Arthur
The Snow Storm
Good-bye
The Rhodora
Summary: Parables From Nature is a collection of short stories which were originally published as 4 separate volumes. They are inspired from Nature and written for children. Nevertheless, Gatty uses children’s literature because she knows that in doing so, she can reach a wider group of readers and point out problems from the Victorian Age. (Summary by sailormoon for Librivox)
Total running time: 11 hours, 14 minutes
The Law of Authority and Obedience
Knowledge Not the Limit of Belief
Little Susy’s Six Birthdays e-text or Kindle version
Little Susy’s Six Birthdays part 1 (run time: 39 minutes)
Little Susy’s Six Birthdays part 2 (run time: 46 minutes)
Little Susy’s Six Teachers e-text
Little Susy’s Six Teachers (run time: 53 minutes)
Summary: When three brothers mortally offend Mr. Southwest Wind, Esquire, their farm is laid waste and their riches lost. Desperate for money, the brothers become goldsmiths and melt down their remaining treasures . . . only to find that the spirit of the King of the Golden River resides with a molded tankard, and knows the secret of the riches of the Golden River. (Introduction by Xenutia for Librivox)
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Running time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (otherwise known as “Grandma Moses”) was a famous American folk artist. ? She began her career late in life and became an American cultural icon. ?You can learn more about her in this edition of Biography in Sound.
This is the continuing saga of Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. ?Click here to listen to earlier episodes.
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