![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure - Lieh Tzu
A Librivox recording of Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, the Yang Chu chapter of the Lieh Tzu (book 7), translated by Professor Anton Forke and with an introduction by Hugh Cranmer-Byng. Read by Chris Masterson. At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them lodging and maintenance, and encouraged all who had any pretence to the pursuit of truth and wisdom...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; philosophy; chinese; china; taoist; taoism
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| Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus - Francis Pharcellus Church
"Is There A Santa Claus?" was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. The editorial, which included the response of "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus," has become an indelible part of popular Christmas lore in the United States. LibriVox brings you eight different versions of this classic.(Summary from wikipedia.org) For more information on our readers, please visit the catalog page at: http://librivox.org/yes-virginia-there-is-a-s...
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Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; christmas
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| You are old, father William - Lewis Carroll
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of You are old, father William by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 20th, 2008. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/you-are-old-father-william-by-lewis-carroll/. For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org.
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner
LibriVox recording of 'You Know Me Al', by Ring Lardner. Read by Rick Rodstrom. Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack Keefe's life on-field and off, via the letters Jack writes to his old chum Al in his home town of Bedford, Indiana...
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Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; baseball; epistolary fiction; Chicago White Sox; Deadball Era
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| You Who Never Arrived, Rainer Maria Rilke - Falstaff
Keywords: Poetry German English Rilke, Rainer Maria
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| Young Adult Short Works Collection Vol. 001 - Various
LibriVox recording of Young Adult Short Works Collection Vol. 001, by Various Authors. Read by Librivox volunteers. Librivox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: audiobook; librivox; short stories; comedy; classics
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| Young Americans Abroad - J. O. Choules
LibriVox recording of Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland, by J. O. Choules (ed.) Read by Sibella Denton. It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with three teenaged students - James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French, who are forced to leave the fourth member of their blue-blooded quartet at home - and all four t...
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Keywords: librivox; travel; history
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| Youth, a Narrative - Joseph Conrad
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. "Youth" is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance. Youth depicts his first journey to the East." (summary from wikipedia)
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; conrad; youth
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| Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion - Chretien de Troyes
LibriVox recording of Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion, by Chretien de Troyes. Read by poormedea. Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem. In the poem, Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight beside a magical storm-making fountain in the forest of Broceliande...
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; audio book; king arthur; arthurian; romance; yvain; chretien de troyes
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