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Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Myszeis Author: Ignacy Krasicki Narrator: Piotr Nater Length: 1 hr 12 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: "Myszeis" (znany tak?e jako "Myszeidos pie?ni X") to chronologicznie pierwszy z trzech poematów heroikomicznych Ignacego Krasickiego. Poeta wy?miewa w nim niektóre wspó?czesne sobie zjawiska za pomoc? opowie?ci o wielkiej wojnie mi?dzy myszami i szczurami po jednej stronie, a kotami i lud?mi po drugiej. Król Popiel, po krótkim okresie faworyzowania myszy, zmienia zdanie i czyni swoim faworytem kota. Wkrótce nastaje wielkie prze?ladowanie myszy i szczurów, a te postanawiaj? odpowiedzie? kontratakiem. Wybucha wojna... Wzoruj?c poemat na "Iliadzie" poeta nada? uczestnicz?cym postaciom zwierz?cym imiona maj?ce pasowa? swoj? rang? do epickiego charakteru opowie?ci. Odbiorca znajdzie te? tu sceny podnios?ych przemów i wielkich bitew. (Summary by Piotr Nater)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Olive Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw Length: 14 hrs 5 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deformed' from birth, Olive believes that she will never be able to marry like other women, so she devotes her life to her art, her mother, and above all, her religion. It takes a dark secret from the past and a new, fascinating acquaintance, to make her realize what her life could be. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: More Tish Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 5 hrs 45 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The series led to a 1942 movie with Marjorie Main. This particular book, the third in the series, was written after Mary's stint as a war correspondent in Belgium during the first World War. Summary by ToddHW.

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Patience (Bunthorne's Bride) Author: W. S. Gilbert Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 1 hr 36 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of fashion and pretension and hero-worship. Bunthorne is a poet who pretends to be highly "idealised" in order to impress the ladies. They all worship him, except for Patience, the dairy maid, who is the only one he loves. However, his grand plan goes awry with the arrival of Grosvenor who is more idealised and more poetical then he is. The ladies all flock after Grosvenor instead, until Bunthorne curses him with poor fashion sense and stoutness! But will the curse bring Bunthorne his Patience? (Summary by Beth Thomas)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Ein Verbrechen Author: Maxim Gorky Narrator: Friedrich Length: 1 hr 6 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Nach dem Tode seines Vaters verlässt der einfältige und mittellose Wanja Kusmin sein heimatliches Dorf, um in der Stadt Arbeit zu finden. Doch er macht die Bekanntschaft des arbeitsscheuen Jeremé Salakin, der seinen Lebensunterhalt durch kleine Diebstähle und Bettelei bestreitet. Auf dem Wege zu einer geplanten, ihr Niveau übersteigenden größeren Straftat, durch die sie vermeinen, ihre elende Situation zu verbessern, begehen sie ein schreckliches Verbrechen, welches infolge der Einfalt Wanjas nicht lange verborgen bleibt. In dieser frühen Erzählung beschreibt Gorki mit knappen Worten die soziale Situation der verarmten Unterschicht in der russischen Provinz im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. - Summary by Friedrich

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: In a North Country Village Author: M. E. Francis Narrator: Phil Benson Length: 5 hrs 1 min Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant village in England, which lies a few miles north of Liverpool. Blundell died young and Mary went on to write more than 50 books, using her husband's Christian name as pen name, including this collection of 12 stories set in Little Crosby (Thornleigh). A romantic portrait of mid-19th century village life written from an aristocratic point of view, In a North Country Village (1896) is built around striking portraits of strong Lancashire women surviving in the face of Hardyesque tragedy and the weaknesses of their men folk. M. E. Francis set many of her books in Ireland and Dorset, but several were set in Lancashire, including A Daughter of the Soil (1895), Yeoman Fleetwood (1900) and Marjory o'th' Mill (1907). (Summary by Phil Benson)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: The Real Thing Author: Henry James Narrator: Nicholas Clifford Length: 1 hr 4 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the means that an artist must use in trying to achieve, or reflect, that reality. Though the protagonist is an artist and illustrator of books, not a writer, it's not hard to imagine that James has himself, and other writers, in mind.(summary by Clifford)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: But Thy Love and Thy Grace Author: Francis J. Finn Narrator: Maria Therese Length: 1 hr 17 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Father Finn's beautiful little tale can be read in an hour or so, but it conveys a lesson which ought to be of longer duration. The interest of the story is chiefly theological, turning, as it does, on the refining and ennobling effects of frequent confession and communion on the soul; yet it is so simply put that any child can understand it. Regina O'Connell is a poor factory girl whose earnings support herself and her bedridden sister. She is simplicity itself-one of those rare beings whom unselfishness and genuine humility make heroines in the true sense of the word. She is a weekly communicant, and is trying her best to keep to the narrow path, but she cannot yet say from her heart the beautiful prayer of St. Ignatius:-" Take, O Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, my whole will." She is tried, sorely tried. At times the pathos is almost unendurable, but she learns her lesson at last. "Give me but Thy love and Thy grace," she whispered, "for these are sufficient for me." "And she received His love and His grace, and in the receiving her heart throbbed with a bliss seldom known upon earth, for His love and His grace were indeed sufficient." The book is not devoid of humourous touches. Father McNichols' catalogue of his penitents and Regina's poor attempts at grandeur are amusing, while the description of the bazaar and of the raffle for the diamond ring are bright and vivid. (Summary from the New Ireland Review, Vol 17. 1902)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men Author: Max Beerbohm Narrator: David Wales Length: 1 hr 11 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of moral degeneration, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to marry her. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Semi-Detached House Author: Emily Eden Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Length: 5 hrs 26 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather petulant) Lady Blanche Chester, newly married and pregnant, is being installed in a suburban house while her husband is away. Her encounters with her neighbors, and the intrigues of the neighborhood, soon come to absorb and annoy her. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace) Author: Harriet Lummis Smith Narrator: Daryl Wor Length: 5 hrs 28 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from the Great War, and pursuing more domestic and mischievous pursuits. Finishing up college and preparing for Peggy and Grahame's wedding, Ruth, Amy and Priscilla look toward their own opportunities of future relationships and potential marriages. As Harriet Lummis Smith is so good at, it is a neat blend of continuity toward the known characters and charming introductions of the new. (Summary by Daryl Wor)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Island Nights' Entertainments Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Tony Addison Length: 5 hrs 44 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the lives of the natives. One tale carries the germ of the story of Madame Butterfly, since become a part of Western culture. Another is an extraordinary retelling of a German horror story transposed to a South Sea Island setting. The last is an effort of the pure Stevensonian imagination and there can be nothing better. - Summary by TONY ADDISON

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint Author: Maud Jean Franc Narrator: Kirsty Leishman Length: 4 hrs 50 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: 'Two Sides to Every Question: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free settlement of Adelaide in pre-Federation Australia. The novel follows the lives of a cast of characters from different social classes as they negotiate the twists and turns in their respective fortunes. The newly-bereaved Alton familyan invalid widow and her two grown children, Tom and Nettiesell their rural property and move to the slovenly back streets of the inner-city; they are determined to hold onto their dignity and values as they turn to earning a living for the first time. The wealthy Clinton family runs the stock supply business where Tom finds employment as a clerk. Toms boss, Robert Clinton, supplements his business income through trading mining shares. His financial success ensures his wife and daughters, Elsie and Lily, have access to the higher echelons of colonial society. Meanwhile, the Clintons' cousin, Arthur Delta, arrives from England to take a position in his uncles business. Arthur's mother has called on her brother's charity to help her family in their time of need. When Arthur and Elsie fall in love, the scene is set as he attempts to build his fortune to secure her fathers favour and, so, her hand in marriage. (Summary by kirstyl)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Told in a French Garden Author: Mildred Aldrich Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 5 hrs 21 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches. Their interactions are interwoven by the stories that they take turns telling after dinner each night to stimulate their nightly conversation and distract their thoughts from the war. (Summary by A.L. Gramour)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Rogue's Life Author: Wilkie Collins Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 5 hrs 13 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: "[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were joyously passed with many other friends, all associated with literature and art, of whom the admirable comedian, Regnier, is now the only survivor. The revising of these pages has been to me a melancholy task. I can only hope that they may cheer the sad moments of others. The Rogue may surely claim two merits, at least, in the eyes of the new generationhe is never serious for two moments together; and he "doesn't take long to read." W. C." - Summary from the Introductory Words

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Just Patty Author: Jean Webster Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 5 hrs 13 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Patty, Conny, and Priscilla are the best of friends, and roommates at boarding school. While the teachers might say they are mischievous, even troublemakers, Patty and her friends act only in accordance with their convictions. From forming a labor union to furnishing a house for the neighbors, Patty's ideas are unconventional, yet loads of fun. Just Patty is the prequel to When Patty Went to College, the first novel by the author of Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy.(Summary by Lorelle Anderson)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Third Class in Indian Railways Author: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 1 hr 11 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha-resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence-which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi and in India also as Bapu. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. (Wikipedia)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Our Little Irish Cousin Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 1 hr 31 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: This little book is intended to help American children (and adults) learn more about the children of Ireland, their culture and how they live their daily lives. It is one of a series attempting to do this with countries and peoples around the world hoping to not just educate but enlighten and bring tolerance for differences in the way we live. From the preface "You have often heard people speak of the Emerald Isle. When you have asked where it is and why it is so called, you have been told it is only another name for that small island to the northwest of the continent of Europe called Ireland. The rains there fall so often, and the sun shines so warmly afterward, that Mother Nature is able to dress herself in the brightest and loveliest of colours. The people there are cheerful and good-natured. They are always ready to smile through their tears and see the funny side of every hardship. And, alas! many things have happened to cause their tears to flow. They have suffered from poverty and hunger. Thousands of them have been forced to leave parents and friends, and seek a living within the kindly shores of America. America is great, America is kind, they may think, but oh! for one look at the beautiful lakes of Killarney; oh! for a walk over the green fields and hills of the Emerald Isle. And oh! for the chance to gather a cluster of shamrock, the emblem of dear old Erin. The little Irish cousin, who has never left her native land, may be poor, and sometimes ragged, but her heart is warm and tender, and she loves her country and her people with a love that will never change, no matter where she may travel or what fortune may befall her.(Summary by Phil Chenevert and the author)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Flowers of Evil Author: Charles Baudelaire Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 1 hr 28 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled "Les Fleurs du mal." It was popular in the symbolist and modernist movements of the 19th century, and the poems are about decadence and eroticism. (Summary by Assaf Koss)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Little Sister Snow Author: Frances Little Narrator: Cheri Gardner Length: 1 hr 45 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, and of her dreams of an American. (Introduction by Cheri Gardner)