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In Art and Heart

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 01

In Beowulf

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Tr. Francis Barton Gummere, Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere


This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…

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…

Chapter 01 – My Early Home

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

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…

Chapter 7

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Lewis Carroll


In this children's classic, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm full of talking creatures. She attends …

Chapter 07

In A Princess of Mars

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


E. R. Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs


Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandi…

Columbus - Read by KS

In Columbus

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Joaquin Miller


This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetr…

The Schoolhouse

In The Country of the Pointed Firs

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Sarah Orne Jewett


The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

The Dog in The Manger

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich

In Der Struwwelpeter

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Heinrich Hoffman and Heinrich Hoffmann


Der Struwwelpeter, zuerst erschienen als “Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3…

Version 7

In If

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion po…

Version 4

In In Flanders Fields

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


mccrae_j and John Mccrae


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Colem…

Johnny Crow’s Garden

In Johnny Crow's Garden

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


L. Leslie Brooke


A beautifully illustrated children's picture book featuring Johnny Crow who made a garden in which a variety of animals do bizarre things in…

The Stage Coach

In Old Christmas

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


irving_w and Washington Irving


A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolm…

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…

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