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  • The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō Kurata

    The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō Kurata
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
    Author: Hyakuzō Kurata
    Narrator: Expatriate
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:44:52
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

    Summary:
    At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" ("Shukke to sono deshi"). This stage play is based on the life and teachings of the 13th century Buddhist priest Shinran (1173-1263) and quickly became immensely popular. Shinran, the historical founder of the True Pure Land School of Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū), encounters the poor family of Hino Saemon and his wife Okane, and converses with them about how to live in circumstances of change and turmoil and hardship. Most of the ideas represented as Shinran's are really Kurata's own philosophies, an amalgam of Eastern and Western ideas adapted by his own iconoclastic spirit to the tumultuous times of early twentieth-century Japan. - Summary by Expatriate
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    5 ore e 45 min
  • In The Days of Giants - Abbie Farwell Brown

    In The Days of Giants - Abbie Farwell Brown
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: In The Days of Giants
    Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
    Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:35:45
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

    Summary:
    This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and pleasant, but winter is a terrible time of cold and gloom; where rocky mountains tower like huge giants, over whose heads the thunder rolls and crashes, and under whose feet are mines of precious metals. Therefore you will find the tales full of giants and dwarfs,—spirits of the cold mountains and dark caverns. You will find the hero to be Thor, with his thunderbolt hammer, who dwells in the happy heaven of Asgard, where All-Father Odin is king, and where Balder the beautiful makes springtime with his smile. In the north countries, winter, cold, and frost are very real and terrible enemies; while spring, sunshine, and warmth are near and dear friends. So the story of the Beginning of Things is a story of cold and heat, of the wicked giants who loved the cold, and of the good sir, who basked in pleasant warmth. - Summary by the author
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    5 ore e 36 min
  • Proposed Roads to Freedom - Bertrand Russell

    Proposed Roads to Freedom - Bertrand Russell
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: Proposed Roads to Freedom
    Author: Bertrand Russell
    Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:52:06
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, History, Public Policy

    Summary:
    Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this book, written in 1918, he offers his assessment of three competing streams in the thought of the political left: Marxian socialism, anarchism and syndicalism. (Summary by Wikipedia/Carl Manchester)
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    5 ore e 52 min
  • Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: Genealogy of Morals
    Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    Narrator: Jeffrey Church
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:45:27
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Science & Technology, History

    Summary:
    In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those parts where Nietzsche examines the ascetic ideal, The Genealogy of Morals is unequalled by any other of his works; and, in the light which it throws upon the attitude of the ecclesiast to the man of resentment and misfortune, it is one of the most valuable contributions to sacerdotal psychology. (summary by the editor of the Samuel translation)
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    5 ore e 45 min
  • The Exploits of Juve (Version 2) - Marcel Allain

    The Exploits of Juve (Version 2) - Marcel Allain
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: The Exploits of Juve (Version 2)
    Author: Marcel Allain
    Narrator: Alan Winterrowd
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:36:23
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

    Summary:
    The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 Fantômas novels between 1911 and 1913.) Fantômas broke the mold of the Gentlemen burglars like Raffles and Arsene Lupin. He killed without compunction. His anarchic ruthlessness, especially as portrayed by silent film pioneer Louis Feuillade, made Fantômas the darling of the French avante garde, such as the artist René Magritte and novelist Robert Desnos. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd)
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    5 ore e 36 min
  • Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger

    Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition
    Author: Horatio Alger
    Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:35:21
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

    Summary:
    Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father's debts, and to help his mother deal with their abject poverty young Grant postpones his college education to take a job as a Wall Street broker's clerk. The first step is to deal with the avaricious and greedy man who is keeping them from obtaining the meager amount due them and which will at least allow them to eat. Grant's wits, pluck and sheer determination are tested time and time again and each time he rises to the occasion. Read of his struggle to feed his mother and himself and then to rise in the world despite great odds. I can say with great confidence that in the end, he might succeed! (Summary by phil chenevert)
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    5 ore e 35 min
  • Eu e Outras Poesias - Augusto Dos Anjos

    Eu e Outras Poesias - Augusto Dos Anjos
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: Eu e Outras Poesias
    Author: Augusto Dos Anjos
    Narrator: Leni
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:55:31
    Language: Portuguese
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

    Summary:
    Augusto dos Anjos é um dos mais originais poetas brasileiros, e também um dos mais populares. Sua obra consiste, porém, em apenas um livro. "Eu" foi publicado ainda em vida do autor; outros poemas, publicados em periódicos ou inéditos, foram coligidos após sua morte e acrescentados ao volume organizado pelo autor, renomeado então "Eu e Outras Poesias". Aclamada pelo público e pela crítica, sua obra foi repudiada por muitos em sua época, e ainda causa estranheza, pela mistura de vocabulário coloquial e científico, pelos temas exacerbadamente macabros e pessimistas, pelo exagero sistemáticos na linguagem e no tratamento dos temas. Não obstante as controvérsias que cercam sua obra, muitos de seus versos caíram no uso popular, tais como "um urubu pousou em minha sorte", "a mão que afaga é a mesma que apedreja" e outros. Esta é a gravação da obra completa de Augusto dos Anjos. (Sumário escrito por Leni)
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    5 ore e 56 min
  • Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge - St. George Henry Rathborne

    Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge - St. George Henry Rathborne
    Jan 1 2017
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    Title: Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge
    Author: St. George Henry Rathborne
    Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:47:30
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-01-2017
    Publisher: LibriVox
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

    Summary:
    The Silver Fox Patrol is hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, at the invitation of Bob White. They are enjoying their outing in a real wilderness, but trouble comes along from a local Moonshiner. Herbert Carter is one of many pseudonyms used by St George Rathborne. (Ann Boulais)
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    5 ore e 48 min