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Part 1 of Perseus: How Perseus and his Mother Came to Seriphos

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Charles Kingsley


The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…

10 - A Word About "Slackers in Khaki"

In Observations of an Orderly

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Ward Muir


Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…

Book 2, Chapter 2

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Niccolò Machiavelli


History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal…

Chapter 9

In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Olaudah Equiano


The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time sp…

Version 12

In I Do Not Love Thee

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


norton_c and Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton


LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty different readings of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton’s I Do Not Love Thee, a weekly poetry project. (S…

The Place of Wailing

In Our Little Jewish Cousin

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade


In whatever direction you may travel,—north, south, east, or west,—you will doubtless meet some of your little black-eyed Jewish cousins. Th…

Caedmon's Hymn

In Caedmon's Hymn

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Caedmon


Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art o…

We Scholars

In Beyond Good and Evil

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Friedrich Nietzsche


First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

The Rude Rat and the Unostentatious Oyster

In Fables for the Frivolous

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

02 - On Men

In Hints for Lovers

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Theodore Arnold Haultain and Arnold Haultain


"Hints for Lovers" is a thorough analysis of relationships between men and women, about everything that lovers should know, and de…

Travelling Musicians, The

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

Chapter 2

In The Getting of Wisdom

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Henry Handel Richardson


The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

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