![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | "Hallowe'en" - Robert Burns
This Robert Burns poem chronicles Halloween divination customs still alive in his time in rural parts of Scotland. He also chronicles the associated party!
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| "Horatius", from Lays of Ancient Rome - Thomas Babington Macaulay
You've seen literary references to Horatius at the Bridge and Volaterrae and "Lars Porsena of Clusium, to the Nine Gods he swore", but they don't make folks read that in school anymore. So why not read it for yourself? This is fun stuff! The idea behind Lays of Ancient Rome was to recreate (for fun and education) the sort of pre-classical ballad poetry that we know the republican Romans had. Whether or not it's anything like that, it's certainly good historical fiction and good rousing poetry.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; History
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| "How I Lost My Gravity" - Fitz-James O'Brien
A (purposefully humorous) tale of pre-Civil War speculative physics.
Keywords: Audiobook - Fiction; Science Fiction
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| "Hymn for the Lighting of the Lamps" - Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (Tr. by R. Martin Pope)
Prudentius, a Christian Roman poet from Spain, wrote several books of poems and hymns. This one is from the Liber Cathemerinon, a book of hymns for various hours and holy days. Bonus tracks are included: "Inventor Rutili", a Latin chant hymn drawn from the first 12 lines of the "Hymn for the Lighting of the Lamps", both in Latin and English. Also, "Hymn for the Burial of the Dead".
Source: The Hymns of Prudentius (translated by R. Martin Pope)
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Religion
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| "Hymn to Christ" - Clement of Alexandria
An early Christian hymn to Christ.
Source: Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets by Allan W. Chatfield, 1876
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry
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![[sound]](/images/mediatype_sound.gif) | Hamish Copley reading at Zeke's Gallery - Hamish Copley
On March 25, 2006 as part of a reading by Graduate Students in the creative writing program at Concordia University.
Keywords: Poetry; Short Story; Literature; Reading; Performance; Montreal
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| Handbüchlein der stoischen Moral - Epiktet
LibriVox recording of Handbüchlein der stoischen Moral, by Epiktet. Read by redaer. Encheiridion, stoische Regeln für ein zufriedenes Leben. Knapp und ausgezeichnet. Geschrieben von Epiktet (ca. 50-138). Übersetzung durch Carl Conz von 1864. (Summary by redaer) This reading is in German. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; philosophy; audiobook; audiobuch; German; Deutsch; Epiktet; Stoicism; Moral
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| Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit - Baltasar Gracián
LibriVox recording of Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit, by Baltasar Gracián. Read by Redaer. Richtiges Leben und Regeln dazu. Wertvoll und hilfreich. (Summary by redaer) Dies ist eine technisch bessere Neuaufnahme. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; audio book; Non-fiction; philosophy; Philosophie; German; Deutsch; Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit; Art of Worldly Wisdom; Baltasar Gracián; Arthur Schopenhauer
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| Hands
Reading of the poem hands by Petar Radujkovich, (Sorry for the low quality) Funny poem, check out www.nearsidefiles.blogspot.com for more
Keywords: Poetry; Comedy; Humor; Funny Poetry; Poem; Audio
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| Hans Brinker - Mary Mapes Dodge
Librivox recording of Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge. Read by Mark F. Smith. Mary Mapes Dodge created an instant bestseller with "Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates." She wanted the book to be partly a book of travels and partly a domestic story. It is a tale written for children that adults also find interesting and uplifting. Dodge writes as if she is sending a series of letters from Holland to children in America, and her you-are-there perspective is aided by a nice atte...
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Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; children's literature; skating; Holland
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| Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection - Hans Christian Andersen
LibriVox recording of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection, by Hans Christian Andersen. These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen - A collection of something for everyone - the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy. (Summary by Neeru Iyer) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; fairy tales; Andersen
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| Hard Times - Charles Dickens
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| Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens’s full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city’s utilitarian ideals and some of whom manage to rise above it. The novel was written in 1854 and was a scathing attack on then-current ideas of utilitarianism, which Dickens viewed as a selfish and at times oppressive ph...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: charles dickens; coketown; hard times; utilitarianism; social critique
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| Harry Smith Cajun music. - Smith, Harry
A compilation of sounds by Harry Smith with chanting, street sounds, singing, poetry, blues, and rock. Includes the Fugs playing, "The Summer of Love," "The Modest Rose," and "Ciao Man." This tape is likely to include sounds made from a microphone hung out of Allen Ginsberg's New York Lower East Side apartment.
Keywords: mysticism; consciousness
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| Harry Smith class. - Smith, Harry
A class with Harry Smith showing a movie and commenting on it.
Keywords: mysticism; consciousness
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| Harry Smith lecture - Smith, Harry
Harry Smith shows his films while playing various musical selections to accompany them.
Keywords: mysticism; consciousness
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| Harry Smith lecture on - Smith, Harry
Hary Smith Plays and comments on his film "heaven, earth, magic."
Keywords: consciousness and literature; mysticism
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| Harry Smith lecture on Native American cosmos. - Smith, Harry
Harry Smith describes two Native American ceremonies he witnessed in the early 1940's in the Pacific Northwest. Interspersed with his account of the ceremonies, he discusses tangentially various related topics, including Native American health before the European invasion, Native American sign language, the migration of symbols, misogyny in anthropological accounts of Native American peoples, creation myths, and cosmology.
Keywords: spirituality and literature; mysticism
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| Harry Smith lecture on the Native American cosmos, July, 1990. - Smith, Harry
Harry Smith lecture on mythology and cultural practices in traditional and indigenous cultures. Among other topics, he discusses belief in reincarnation, the ceremonial use of peyote, and creation stories.
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| Harry Smith lecture on the rationality of namelessness. - Smith, Harry
Harry Smith discusses Surrealism, liars and poetry, as he spends a good deal of the tape trying to find the poem he wants to read, parody of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Keywords: consciousness and literature; experimental writing; mysticism
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| Harry Smith lecture, 5:00 pm comments, July, 1989. - Smith, Harry
A very short excerpt of Harry Smith talking about slam dancing, fans and clocks, and pinhole cameras,
Keywords: none
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| Harry Smith lecture, Indian cosmographies, July, 1990. - Smith, Harry
A Harry Smith lecture on Native American world views. Smith discusses similarities with cultures in other parts of the world. He reviews a written handout and covers a wide variety of topics, including the place of flutes in selected Native cultures, twin stories and opposing forces, creation myths involving the earth diver, psychedelics, the world tree, dreams, and the end of the world.
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| Harry Thurston reading at Zeke's Gallery - Harry Thurston
Harry Thurston reading excerpts from his narative poem A Ship Portrait, at Zeke's Gallery in Montreal on October 5, 2005.
Keywords: Poetry; Reading; Montreal; Performance
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| Has a Frog a Soul - Thomas H Huxley
Librivox recording of Has a Frog a Soul? by Thomas H. Huxley. Read by CarlManchester Thomas Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself. This speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1870 is one of Huxley's best known texts outside the sphere of his specialism, and remains read today by students of philosophy...
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Keywords: librivox; audiobook; science; speech; metaphysics; philosophy; huxley; frog; soul
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| Hawkins Four Extraordinary Women part 1 August 2005 - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise
Bobbie Louise Hawkins lectures on Marguerite Duras: Imagining a Life, the first lecture in a four part series called Four Extraordinary Women. Hawkins talks about the life and writing of Duras, focusing on the book, The Lover. She also talks about autobiography as fiction and the writing process.
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| Hawkins Four Extraordinary Women part 2 August 2005 - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise
Bobbie Louise Hawkins presents a lecture on the life and work of performer Ruth Draper and performs some excerpts from Draper's work.
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| Hawkins Four Extraordinary Women part 3 August 2005 - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise
Bobbie Louise Hawkins presents a lecture on the life and work of performer Camille Paglia.
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| Hawkins Four Extraordinary Women part 4 August 2005 - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise
Bobbie Louise Hawkins presents a lecture on the life and work of performer Colette.
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| Hazard Response, Tom Clark - Hema Manicka
Keywords: Poetry English Clark, Tom
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| Headache from the Not Mute show by Janet Kuypers - Janet Kuypers
This poem was read at the Not Mute show by Janet Kuypers.
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| Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Librivox recording of Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Read by Kristin Luoma Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them. We get the tale through a classic unreliable narrator, relating as Marlow, a ship's captain, tells how he was sent by the Com...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; classic
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| Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
LibriVox recording of Heart of the World by H. Rider Haggard. Read by Paul Hansen. H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long lost city filled with gold and jewels! It is also a love story of a couple willing to give up everything, and I mean EVERYthing, for true love. And it is a melodramatic adventure story of good against evil...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; literature; audiobook; haggard; adventure; romance
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| Heather Dale live at Zeke's Gallery last night (set one) - Heather Dale
playing with Ben Deschamps in Montreal on April 9, 2006
Keywords: Folk; Celtic; Music; Live; Montreal
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| Heather Dale live at Zeke's Gallery last night (set two) - Heather Dale
playing with Ben Deschamps in Montreal on April 9, 2006
Keywords: Folk; Celtic; Music; Live; Montreal
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| Heather Jessup reading at Zeke's Gallery - Heather Jessup
Heather Jessup reading at the Verse Press / Delirium Press reading at Zeke's Gallery on January 19, 2005
Keywords: Montreal; Poetry; Performance; Reading
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| Heaven - Rupert Brooke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Heaven by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 16th, 2008. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| Heidi - Johanna Spyri
LibriVox recording of Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. Read by Kara Shallenberg. Hear Heidi if you've ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt...
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; children; heidi; spyri
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| Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat - Johanna Spyri
LibriVox Aufnahme von "Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat", von Johanna Spyri. Gelesen von Stephanie König. Heidi ist zurückgekehrt zum Alpöhi. Der ist darüber so froh, dass er nach Jahrzehnten zum ersten Mal wieder die Kirche im Dörfli aufsucht, worüber die Dorfbewohner erstaunt, aber erfreut sind. Er setzt sein Haus im Dörfli wieder instand, damit Heidi den Winter dort verbringen und die Schule besuchen kann...
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; children; Hörbuch; Kinder
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| Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre - Johanna Spyri
LibriVox recording of Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre, by Johanna Spyri. Read in German. Im Jahre 1880 im Perthes-Verlag, Gotha, erschienenen ersten Heidi-Roman wird erzählt, wie das Waisenmädchen Heidi zu seinem einsiedlerischen Grossvater auf eine Alp oberhalb von Maienfeld (Kanton Graubünden) gebracht wird, wo es in Zukunft leben soll. (Zusammenfassung aus Wikipedia) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; heidi; deutsch; spyri; children
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| Helen Adam and Robert Duncan reading - Part 2 - Duncan, Robert
Second half of a reading with Helen Adam and Robert Duncan, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Most of the readings are by Robert Duncan, of his own work. (Continued from A013A).
Keywords: New American Poetry; West Coast poetry; beat movement; music and literature; performance poetry; San Francisco Renaissance
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| Helen Adam class, July, 1979. - Adam, Helen
Helen Adam class focusing on the appeal of narrative verse. Topics include the works of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Thompson, Allen Ginsberg and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a list of the great narrative poems and discussions of aspects of witchcraft and the darkness of Scottish border ballads.
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| Helen Adam lecture - Part 1 - Adam, Helen
First half of a lecture by Helen Adam on topics including repetition, Percy Shelley, W.H. Auden, Rudyard Kipling, poets as music makers, and ballads. Readings include "The Looking Glass" and "A Smuggler's Song." A question and answer period follows the lecture. (Continues on 79p026.)
Keywords: New American Poetry; music and literature; performance poetry
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| Helen Adam lecture - Part 2 - Adam, Helen
Second half of a lecture by Helen Adam, with this half focusing on English ballads, including "A Letter of Advice" and "Reputing Drive." (Continued from 79p025.)
Keywords: New American Poetry; performance poetry
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| Helen Adam lecture. - Adam, Helen
Second half of a lecture by Helen Adam, with this half focusing on English ballads, including "A Letter of Advice" and "Reputing Drive." (Continued from 79p025.) Keywords: New American Poetry, performance poetry, music in literature
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| Helen Adams and Robert Duncan reading - Part 1 - Adam, Helen; Duncan, Robert
First half of a reading by Robert Duncan and Helen Adam. Duncan reads a number of his poems and Adam sings her ballads. With an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. (Continues on 76p016.)
Keywords: New American Poetry; West Coast poetry; music and literature; San Francisco Renaissance
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| Helen Zisimatos reading at Zeke's Gallery - Helen Zisimatos
On the occasion of the launch of Vallum magazine 3.2 there was a series of poetry readings held at Zeke's Gallery on February 24, 2006.
Keywords: Montreal; Poetry; Performance; Live
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| Helen's Babies - John Habberton
LibriVox recording of Helen's Babies, by John Habberton. Read by Kara Shallenberg. In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days while she and her husband are out of town. Helen says, "The children won't give you the slightest trouble; they're the best children in the world!" but, as you can imagine, Toddie and Budge are always up to something, and all sorts of comic mischief ensues...
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; habberton; humor; babysitting; children; romance
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001 - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
LibriVox's Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001: A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.
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Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; literature; poetry
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| Heretics - G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox recording of "Heretics" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and...
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Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; apologetics; Christianity; religion; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton
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| Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
LibriVox recording of Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin's monthly magazine Forerunner...
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Keywords: herland; gilman; science; fiction; philosopy; aryan; audiobooks
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