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1Johnny Crow's Garden

By 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 rhyme.Listen to the audio while you view the pictures on <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10469">gutenberg.org</a> (Summary by Jim)

2Story of the Three Little Pigs

By L. Leslie Brooke

This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This recording can be enjoyed by itself, or you can read along with the Library of Congress facsimile version from the International Children's Digital Library: <a href="http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SaveBook?bookid=___stor_00150083&lang=English&ilang=English">Here</a>.

3Golden Goose Book

By L. Leslie Brooke

A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15661">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15661</a>. <br /> We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded and selfishness is punished but Brooke squeezes a number of intriguing and quite bizarre twists and turns into the story so it is not nearly so predictable as you might imagine. <br /> Victorian moral fairy tales from a delightfully inventive mind. <br /> (Summary by Jim)

4Johnny Crow’s Party

By L. Leslie Brooke

A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org) a variety of delightful animals doing strange things such as the kangaroo who tried to paint the roses blue. This is a follow up to Johnny Crow’s Garden. (Summary by Jim)

5Ring o' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book

By L. Leslie Brooke

A collection of Classical children's nursery rhymes. Many familiar, a few unfamiliar, all simple and easy for younger children.

6Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

By Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war, especially The Old Vicarage, Grantchester and The Great Lover. He was also known for his boyish good looks, which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". (Summary from Wikipedia)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of <em>Heaven</em> by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 16th, 2008.

8Success

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Success by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 19th, 2009.

Lady Julia, the daughter of the earl of Belmont, and Mr. Henry Mandeville are falling in love. Though Henry is like a family friend, this love is not welcomed because the lady Julia is promised to someone else (or so Henry thinks). When they'll discover their chance of happiness, it is much too late. Summary by Stav Nisser.

10Channel Passage

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for August 30th, 2009.

11Soldier

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of <em>The Soldier</em> by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to a battle at Gallipoli.<BR /><BR />This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 8th, 2009.

12Hill

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.<br><br>Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier). He was also known for his boyish good looks, which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". (summary from Wikipedia)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Seaside by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 19, 2012.<br><br>Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as "Chaucer" was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England" ( Summary from Wikipedia )

14Call

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of <i>The Call</i> by Rupert Brooke. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013.

15Golden Goose Book (version 2)

By L. Leslie Brooke

Here are four delightful fairy tales that have fascinated children and adults for centuries. Several, such as The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs are well known and can be listened to with delight as each remembered and beloved part is come to. Others, such as The Golden Goose and Tom Thumb are not so well known and listening to them can be exciting because we do not know exactly what is to come as the story unfolds. (summary by the reader)

16History of Emily Montague Vol I (Dramatic Reading)

By Frances Moore Brooke

The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collection of letters, the story follows the relationships between Edward Rivers (a British soldier), his friend, John Temple (rather a cad), Emily Montague (a young British woman), and her dearest friend, Arabella Fermor (a flirtatious drama queen). Giving glimpses into the new frontier discoveries of Canada, one not only peeks into the personal relationships of these characters but gets swept away by the enticing descriptions of the "new world." This is Volume 1 out of 4. - Summary by Amanda Friday<br><br> <u>Characters:</u><br> Edward Rivers, read by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9406">Kit Noussis</a><br> John Temple, read by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br> Arabella Fermor, read by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6544">Amanda Friday</a><br> Emily Montague, read by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7138">Caprisha Page</a><br> Mrs. E. Melmoth, read by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5424">Julia Niedermaier</a><br> <br>Final files were edited by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8842">Mary J</a>

17Day and NIght

By Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was "vivid". This vitality, though manifold in expression, is felt primarily in his sensations — surprise mingled with delight — (Summary from Introduction to THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE)

18Charm

By Rupert Brooke

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — "he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so often do. He was quite inconsequent and just rippled on, but was always ready to attack a careless thinker. On the other hand, he was extremely tolerant of fools, even bad poets who are the worst kind of fools — or rather the hardest to bear — but that was kindness of heart." Of his personal appearance a good deal has been said. "One who knew him," writing in one of the daily papers, said that "to look at, he was part of the youth of the world. He was one of the handsomest Englishmen of his time. His moods seemed to be merely a disguise for the radiance of an early summer's day." (From Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note by Margaret Lavington in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE, (from which this poem is taken.)

191914, and Other Poems

By Rupert Brooke

This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems. - Summary by Carolin

20Letters From America

By Rupert Brooke

"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written as letters to the Westminster Gazette. He would probably not have republished them in their present form, as he intended to write a longer book on his travels; but they are now printed with only the correction of a few evident slips." The listener interested in Brooke's work may want to skip over Henry James' "so affectionate and desperately unintelligible a preface" (Christopher Morley in <i>Modern Essays</i>) and listen to those four tracks later. (Tracks 2 - 5) ( Book's Prefatory Note and david wales)

Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get a man. No, it is not an errand to make money. It is a revolutionary errand: to get an education! Not just "an education", she wants to be educated in Cambridge University. Set in a time when education of women was uncommon, and written by a lady who was educated in Cambridge herself, this book tells about the rewards and the struggles of a woman to win an education. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

22History of Emily Montague Vol. II (Dramatic Reading)

By Frances Moore Brooke

The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collection of letters, the story follows the relationships between Edward Rivers (a British soldier), his friend, John Temple (rather a cad), Emily Montague (a young British woman), and her dearest friend, Arabella Fermor (a flirtatious drama queen). Giving glimpses into the new frontier discoveries of Canada, one not only peeks into the personal relationships of these characters but gets swept away by the enticing descriptions of the "new world." This is Volume 2 out of 4. - Summary by Amanda Friday <BR>Cast list:<br> Emily Montague: <a href=" https://librivox.org/reader/12923"> EmmaHatton</a> <br> Edward Rivers: <a href=" https://librivox.org/reader/10801"> Jim Locke</a><br> Arabella Fermor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13638"> Grace Buchanan</a><br>George Clayton: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13072"> Campbell Schelp</a> <br> William Fermor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278"> KevinS</a> <br> Mrs E. Melmoth: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6281"> Beth Thomas</a> <br>Lucy Rivers: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614"> Leanne Yau</a><br> John Temple: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170"> Alan Mapstone</a><br> Narration: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179"> Sonia</a> <br> edited by: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278"> KevinS</a>

23History of Emily Montague, Vol. III (Dramatic Reading)

By Frances Moore Brooke

The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collection of letters, the story follows the relationships between Edward Rivers (a British soldier), his friend, John Temple (rather a cad), Emily Montague (a young British woman), and her dearest friend, Arabella Fermor (a flirtatious drama queen). Giving glimpses into the new frontier discoveries of Canada, one not only peeks into the personal relationships of these characters but gets swept away by the enticing descriptions of the "new world." This is Volume 3 of 4. - Summary by Amanda Friday <br><br><b>Cast List:</b><br><br> <b>Cast</b><br> Emily Montague: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/688">J.M.Smallheer</a><br>Colonel Edward Rivers: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10801">Jim Locke </a><br>Arabella Fermor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13717">Matea Bracic</a><br>William Fermor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278">KevinS</a><br>Lucy Temple: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13661">Lynette Caulkins</a><br>John Temple: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">alanmapstone</a><br>Captain J. Fitzgerald: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br>Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">linny </a><br><br><b>Edited by:</b> <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">linny</a>.<br><br><b>Proof listeners:</b> <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">linny</a> and <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10801">Jim Locke</a>.

24History of Emily Montague, Vol. IV (Dramatic Reading)

By Frances Moore Brooke

The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collection of letters, the story follows the relationships between Edward Rivers (a British soldier), his friend, John Temple (rather a cad), Emily Montague (a young British woman), and her dearest friend, Arabella Fermor (a flirtatious drama queen). Giving glimpses into the new frontier discoveries of Canada, one not only peeks into the personal relationships of these characters but gets swept away by the enticing descriptions of the "new world." This is Volume 4 of 4. - Summary by Amanda Friday <br><br><b>Cast List:</b><br><br> <b>Cast</b><br> Emily Montague: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/688">J.M.Smallheer</a><br>Colonel Edward Rivers: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10801">Jim Locke </a><br>Arabella Fermor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13717">Matea Bracic</a><br>Captain J. Fitzgerald: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br>John Temple: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">alanmapstone</a><br><br>Fanny Williams: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br>Earl of Hamberg: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278">KevinS</a><br>Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">linny</a><br><br><b>Edited by:</b> <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">linny</a>.<br><br><b>Proof listeners:</b> <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">linny</a> and <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278">KevinS</a>.

A number of poems by Rupert Brooke, collected and published in 1925. - Summary by KevinS

"The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all those plays which can, without entire absurdity, be included in the 'doubtfully Shakespearian' class." <br><br>This Librivox project provides the Preface and Introduction of this book, wherein some 42 candidate Shakespeares are whittled down to some 14 plays "which alone appear entitled, on grounds either of reason or of custom, to a place among the Shakespeare Apocrypha." The book then presents the text (not included here) of the 14 plays; Librivox performances of these play texts will be presented separately in our catalog. For example, The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Birth of Merlin are already released. - Summary by Author and Toddhw

Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at the end of the 19th century. At the opening of the story, we find Jessamine Halliday, a pampered young aristocrat, languishing and apparently close to death. Her desperate family has called in a maverick doctor, who recognizes that she suffers from the idleness and listlessness too often experienced by upper-class English women. The only “medicine” she needs is a change of thinking and new self-awareness. Accordingly, the doctor coaches her to think more critically about her role as a woman and about the uses of meaningful labor. (Partly, this doctor is a spokesperson for the author: Emma Brooke was prominently engaged in feminist and socialist thought.) <br><br> Jessamine tries to radically re-invent herself by fleeing London (and a looming high-society marriage), to seek humble work as a farm helper in Scotland. It turns out, however, that it is not so easy to cast off the assumptions and controls of a lifetime. (Summary by Bruce Pirie)

28Doubts

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Doubts by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 25, 2024. <br> ------<br> Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". - Summary by Wikipedia

29One Day

By Rupert Brooke

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of One Day by by Rupert Brooke.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 6, 2025. <br> ------<br> Brooke's accomplished poetry gained many enthusiasts and followers, and he was taken up by Edward Marsh, who brought him to the attention of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. - Summary by Wikipedia