Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare

Hamlet Playscene by Harold Copping

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Miranda, The Tempest by JW Waterhouse

00 – Preface

01 – The Tempest

02 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

03 – Winter’s Tale

04 – Much Ado About Nothing

Dogberry examining Conrade and Borachio from Much Ado about Nothing

05 – As You Like It

06 – Two Gentlemen of Verona

07 – Merchant of Venice

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Shakespeare's Shylock by Charles Buchel

08 – Cymbeline

09 – King Lear

10 – Macbeth

11 – All’s Well That Ends Well

12 – Taming of the Shrew

13 – Comedy of Errors

Juliet by JW Waterhouse

14 – Measure for Measure

15 – Twelfth Night

16 – Timon of Athens

17 – Romeo and Juliet

18 – Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Ophelia by JW Waterhouse

19 – Othello

20 – Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Battle of Barnett

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Black Arrow 1st edition cover

Prologue

At the Sign of the Sun in Kettley

In the Fen

The Fen Ferry

A Greenwood company


Careg Cennen Castle2, image by Phillip Capper, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

‘Bloody as the Hunter’

To the Day’s End

The Hooded Face

War of the Roses White Rose


Book Two

Dick Asks a Question

The Two Oaths

The Room over the Chapel

The Passage

How Dick Changed Sides

War of the Roses Red Rose

Book Three

The House by the Shore

A Skirmish in the Dark

St. Bride’s Cross

The ‘Good Hope’

The ‘Good Hope’ continued

The ‘Good Hope’ concluded

Tudor Rose


Book Four

The Den

‘In Mine Enemies’ House’

The Dead Spy

In the Abbey Church

Newstead Abbey Church, image by Jo Jakeman, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

Earl Risingham

Arblaster Again

Black Arrow author Robert Louis Stevenson by Sargent

Book 5

The Shrill Trumpet

The Battle of Shoreby

The Battle of Shoreby (Concluded)

The Sack of Shoreby

Night in the Woods

Night in the Woods (concluded)

Dick’s Revenge

Conclusion

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

Knight's Spur 2, image by frielp, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

Summary: Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400’s, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their home. His blind father is accused of treason. We see Myles grow up, train as a knight, and with perseverance, clear his father of any wrong-doing and restore their family name. (Summary by Laura Caldwell for Librivox)

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Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

chapter 3

chapter 4

Jousting, image by Jeff Kubina, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

chapter 5

chapter 6

chapter 7

chapter 8

chapter 9

Horses Joust, image by Clinton and Charles Robertson, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 ShareAlike license

chapter 10

chapter 11

chapter 12

chapter 13

Castle Battle Abbey 2, image by Misterzee, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license


chapter 14

chapter 15

chapter 16

chapter 17

chapter 18

chapter 19

chapter 20

chapter 21

A Knight at the Crossroads by Vasnetsov

chapter 22

chapter 23

chapter 24

chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Knight's spur 3 by frielp, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge

Holland, Saint Elizabeth's Flood, detail

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Holland, two windmills

01 Story of the Netherlands

02 – Brave Little Holland

03- A Wealth of Herrings

04 – A Dutch Reformer


05 – The Story of Martin Luther

Luther posting his 95 theses

06 – The Diet of Worms

07 – An Historic Scene

08 – How the Trouble Began

09 – The Storm Bursts

10 – Beggars of the Sea

11 – The Massacre of Bartholomew

12 – The Siege of Leyden

13 – William the Silent

14 – England

15 – Elizabeth’s Sailors

16 – Drake’s Voyage Round the World

The Spanish Armada off the English coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen

17 – The Great Armada

18 – Among the Icebergs

19 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert

20 – Virginia

21 – Story of the Revenge

22 – Sir Walter Raleigh

Una and the Lion from Spenser's Faerie Queene

23 – The Fairy Queen

24 – The Great Dramatist

Queen Elizabeth I in coronation robes
25 – The Golden Days of Good Queen Bess

26 – First Voyage of the East India Company

27 – The Story of Henry Hudson

28 – Captain John Smith

29 – The Founding of Quebec

30 – The Pilgrim Fathers

31 – Thirty Years of War

Thirty Years War Battle of Lutzen by Carl Wahlbom.

32 – The Dutch at Sea

33 – The Great South Land

34 – Van Riebeek’s Colony

35 – In the Days of Oliver Cromwell

36 – Two Famous Admirals

37 – De Ruyter

38 – The Founder of Pennsylvania

39 – The ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’

40 – The House of Orange

William II of Orange by Van Dyck

41 – William’s Invitation

42 – The Struggle in Ireland

43 – The Siege of Vienna by the Turks

44 – The Greatness of France

45 – The Story of the Huguenots

46 – The Greatest General of His Age

47 – The Battle of Blenheim

Peter the Great1838 by Delaroche

48 – How Peter the Great Learned Shipbuilding

49 – Charles XII of Sweden

50 – The Boyhood of Frederick the Great

51 – Anson’s Voyage Round the World

52 – Maria Theresa

53 – The Story of Scotland

Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Robin Hood and Little John by Frank Godwin

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood intro

Chapter 1, How Robin Hood Came to be an Outlaw

chapter 2, Robin Hood and the Tinker

chapter 3, The Shooting match at Nottingham Town

Will Scarlett

chapter 4, Will Stutely Rescued by his companions

chapter 5, Robin Hood turns butcher

chapter 6, Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair

The friar took Robin on his Back by  Louis Rhead

chapter 7, How Little John Lived at the Sheriff’s

chapter 8, Little John and the Tanner of Blyth

chapter9, Robin Hood and Will Scarlet

chapter10, The Adventure with Midge the Miller’s Son

Allan-a-dale

chapter11, Robin Hood and Allan a Dale

chapter12, Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar

chapter13, Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage

Robin Hood and Little John by Louis Rhead

chapter14, Robin Hood aids a sorrowful Knight

chapter 15,How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts

chapter 16, Little John Turns Barefoot Friar

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

chapter 17, Robin Hood Turns Beggar

chapter 18, Robin Shoots before Queen Eleanor

chapter 19,The Chase of Robin Hood

Robin Shoots with Sir Guy by Louis Rhead, 1912

chapter 20,Robin Hood and Guy of Guisborne

chapter 21, King Richard comes to Sherwood Forest

chapter 22, Epilogue

The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel Harding

Charlemagne et Louis le Pieux

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Ancient German Family

Introduction

Chapter 1, The Ancient Germans

Chapter 2, Breaking the Frontier

Chapter 3, The Wanderings of the West-Goths

Chapter 4, End of the Western Empire

St. Kevin's Church, image released to public domain by copyright holder Warrenfisch

Chapter 5, Growth of the Christian Church

chapter 6, Rise of the Franks

chapter 7, Franks and Mohammedans

chapter 8, Charlemagne

chapter 9, Growth of Feudalism

chapter 10,The Deeds of the Northmen

Baldin of Boulogne entering Edessa

Chapter 11, The First Crusade

chapter 12, Later Crusades

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chapter 13, Life of the Castle

chapter 14, Life of the Village and Town

chapter 15, Life of the Monastery

chapter 16, Papacy and Town

Battle of Crecy Hundred Years War

chapter 17, The Hundred Years’ War

chapter 18, End of the Middle Ages

King Arthur and his Knights by Maude L. Radford

King Arthur 1 Boys King Arthur N C Wyeth

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Boys King Arthur, Wyeth

01 – How Arthur Became King

02 – The Good Sword Excalibur

Excalibur, The Sword, Howard Pyle, 1902


03 – The Great Feast and What Followed

04 – Arthur’s Court and the Order of the Round Table

05 – King Arthur and the Princess Guinevere

John Collier, Queen Guinevres Maying

06 – The Coming of Gareth

07 – The Story of Sir Gareth and Lynette

08 – Sir Ivaine

09 – Sir Balin

10 – Sir Geraint and Enid

11 – Arthur and Sir Accalon

Boys King Arthur by Wyeth, p306

12 – How Arthur Fought with a Giant

13 – How Arthur Fought With Rome

14 – The Knight With the Badly Made Coat

15 – Sir Lancelot and Sir Brune

 Boys King Arthur illustrations by N C Wyeth, Sir Lancelot

16 – The Adventure of King Pellenore

17 – Sir Lancelot and His Friends

18 – How Sir Lancelot Saved the Queen

Rescue of Guinevere by Hatherell

19 – Sir Lancelot and Elaine

20 – The Search for the Holy Grail

21 – The Death of Arthur

The Death of Arthur

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats

FDR fireside chat 2

WWII January 1, 1945 Fireside Chat on Battle of the Bulge

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Fireside Chat 2. Outlining the New Deal Program. Sunday, May 7, 1933

Fireside Chat 4. On the Currency Situation. Sunday, October 22, 1933

Fireside Chat 5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress. Thursday, June 28, 1934

Fireside Chat 6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Security. Sunday, September 30, 1934

Fireside Chat 7. On the Works Relief Program. Sunday, April 28, 1935

Fireside Chat 12. On Economic Conditions. Thursday, April 14, 1938

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Frederick Douglass

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Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Tenniel, Red Queen with Alice

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Total running time: 3 hours, 24 minutes
 Tenniel, Tweedledum and Tweedle Dee

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house

CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers

CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects

CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee

Tenniel Alice with Humpty Dumpty

CHAPTER V. Wool and Water

CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty

CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn

CHAPTER VIII. ‘It’s my own Invention’

Chapter IX: Queen Alice

Chapter X through XII:  10- Shaking, 11-Waking, 12-Which dreamed it?