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1Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies

By K. Langloh Parker

A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe, known among themselves as Noongahburrahs.

2Right of Way

By Gilbert Parker

Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of his success, he is disillusioned with his life, drinks too much, and is deeply troubled by his agnosticism which leads to trouble and confusion. When Billy embezzles money, Charley discovers the theft and sets out to make things right. Charley however, ends up in a waterfront saloon where he encounters a barroom brawl and becomes unconscious. Charley loses his memory and ends up in the Canadian Northwoods where he falls in love with a pretty postmistress, Rosalie. He finds he is perfectly content with his "new" life but when his memory returns, he is deeply disturbed by his past and ponders whether to return to his old life to make amends. Mystery, romance, and intrigue are interwoven throughout the novel. The Right of Way was made into movies in 1915, 1920, and 1931. (Summary by Tom Weiss)

3Seats of The Mighty

By Gilbert Parker

For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero's imprisonment in Quebec. (Summary by D. Appleton and Company, 1896) <br><br> <strong>Cast:</strong><br>Narrator, Captain Lancy, Sir John Godric, Scarat, Mr. Stevens, Officer Kingdon, Sailor, Midshipman: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=5009">Michael Reuss</a><br>Captain Robert Moray: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7247">Robert Hoffman</a><br>Madamoiselle Alixe Duvarney: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6544">Amanda Friday</a><br>Monsieur Doltaire: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6965">NoelBadrian</a><br>Gabord: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=4705">Algy Pug</a><br>General Wolfe, The Surgeon, Bishop: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>Intendant Francois Bigot, Chevalier de la Darante, The Voice: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6535">Ron Altman</a><br>Intendant Francois Bigot, Servant, Commandant Ramesay, The Intendant's Valet, Bamboir, Sentinal, General Murray: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6754">ToddHW</a><br>Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil, John Mitchell, Grandfather: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7061">AllenJohns</a><br>Voban: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6553">DublinGothic</a><br>Seigneur Duvarney: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br>Madame Duvarney, Mathilde, Singers, Mother Superior: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7218">MJ Franck</a><br>Marquis de Montcalm: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=2825">Ernst Pattynama</a><br>Babette: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7138">CaprishaPage</a><br>Mr. Wainfleet, Women Singers, Farmer's Son: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=3157">TriciaG</a><br>Madame Cournal, Madame Jamond: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7171">April Gonzales</a><br>Madame Cournal: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=5888">Tisha Bordon</a><br>Juste Duvarney, Sailor Jack, Officer: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6689">Tiffany Halla Colonna</a><br>Jeanie: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=4174">Availle</a><br>Prophet Man, Officer Legrand: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6511">csjesi1</a><br>Guard, Jean Labrouk, Sentinal at Gate 1, Sentinal at Gate 2, Sentinal at Chateau St. Louis, Soldier: <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=6548">Kristingj</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by:</strong> ToddHW

4American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker

By Cornelia Stratton Parker

In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their life together. As a member of California's turn-of-the-20th-century Immigration and Housing Commission, Carlton H. Parker came to understand the problems surrounding migrant camps and the labor movement in general. In this volume she recounts his undertakings in that regard and their family life. - Summary by Mary Schneider

5Pomander Walk

By Louis Napoleon Parker

Pomander Walk is a unique street in London, and in this humorous novel we meet the unusual residents. It was originally produced as a stage play and includes lively dialog. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting influence on Canadian literature, but whose importance for his time is now largely overlooked. One of the prime examples of his art is the short story collection <i>The Lane that had no Turning</i>, which is a series of short stories set in the fictional provincial town of Pontiac in Quebec. This collection "contains some of his best work, and is viewed by some as being in the tradition of such Gothic classics as Stoker's Dracula and James's The Turn of the Screw." (Wikipedia). This edition also contains six <i>Parables of a Province</i>, which are very different in style from the rest of the book, but add an interesting additional facet to the collection. - Summary by Carolin

7Lover's Diary

By Gilbert Parker

A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone apologetic Introduction by the author himself. Sir Gilbert Parker, as he came to be known, went on to become politically active, as well as a great story-teller, prolific novelist, and mature poet, centering his stories in the area of Quebec, Canada. See more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gilbert_Parker,_1st_Baronet( Michele Fry)

8Men I'm Not Married To (Poem)

By Dorothy Parker

A saucy little poem commenting upon all men that Ms. Parker didn't marry, perhaps implying (it's a bit ambiguous) that upon marrying, the husband becomes far more special than all the other men in the world. It's sort of the same theme embodied in Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, who was saddened to discover that his rose was like any other rose, except when he further realized that his rose depended upon him alone for her care, and was the only rose that belonged to him. ~ Summary by Michele Fry

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Recurrence by Dorothy Parker.<br> This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 16, 2022.<br> -----<br> Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York. She was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. This poem is taken from her book "Enough Rope" (1926), freshly out of US copyright. - Summary by TriciaG

10Men I'm Not Married To (Stories)

By Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was a poet, writer and satirist of the foibles of the early 20th century (not least, of Prohibition), and a founding member of New York’s Algonquin Round Table, a group of prominent artistic and social critics, actors and wits. <br><br> This is a short collection of humorously critical descriptions of various men on the periphery of her “inner circle,” which explain why they are men she is not married to. - Summary by Kirsten Wever

The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much help given to me by friends, who either told or sent me scraps of legends they themselves had seen or heard. On receiving any such I immediately made inquiries amongst the Blacks, and I was often enabled to complete the scraps, gaining through their hints a whole legend.

12Enough Rope

By Dorothy Parker

A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here is the famous short poem "News Item": Men seldom make passes - At girls who wear glasses. - Summary by mleigh