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Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . . and Voltaire never admitted to writing it.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Feminine by Henry Cuyler Bunner.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 31, 2026. ------Henry Cuyler Bunner was an American novelist, journalist and poet. Bunner's works have been praised by librarians for its "technical dexterity, playfulness and smoothness of finish".- Summary by Wikipedia

This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person. LibriVox has three excellent dramatic recordings with all the parts played by different people so if that is more to your taste, please listen to them. Little needs to be said about the play itself, a sparkling example of Wilde's amazing ability to poke fun at almost everyone while making you laugh out loud at the witty sayings sprinkled throughout the acts. As to the plot, if you don't know it already, let me just say that it involves two young English men who fall madly and ...

This story highlights life in a British girls’ boarding school during World War One. The desires of the girls to do something consequential for the war effort are showcased in this book, but demonstrates how easily these innocent desires can be thwarted. While written with young teens in mind, it can be enjoyed by the entire family.

Two Flights Up is a story of how class distinctions and pretensions shape life in a medium-sized American town. The plot involves crime and investigation, but it is not exactly a mystery novel in the usual sense of the term. After her husband went to prison ten years ago for stealing bonds from a bank, a woman has been trying to maintain her image of the family prestige for herself, her sister, and her daughter, with very little money. As the story opens they take in a lodger, who becomes entangled in their lives on multiple levels, and the bond thief is about to be released from prison on ...

Problems in American Democracy is a very detailed, specific explanation of some of the underlying and surface problems of a democracy system of government, particularly of the American form of democracy. Though lengthy, it is a great read for people who want to learn more about different types of government and the foundations of our own government in the United States of America. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain by force of arms. This account was written by Irish novelist James Stephens, who lived and worked in Dublin at the time. (Summary from Wikipedia and iremonger)

Julius Wolff, the great singer of poetic myth and weird folk-tale, was the youngest and last of the German romantic poets. In an ever-changing variety of story and spirit, constant only in a fervent and lofty patriotism, he wrote Tannhäuser, The Ratcatcher of Hamelin, The Wild Huntsman, The Lorelei, The Flying Dutchman, Till Eulenspiegel Redivivus, and The Pappenheimer. The Wild Huntsman has far surpassed all Wolff's other poems in popularity. He made his Wild Huntsman a vivid reality in a historical setting of the waning Middle Ages. His weird story and the mystery and horror of Woden's ...

Sax Rohmer, creator of legendary criminal mastermind Fu Manchu, brings together a collection of seven stories that are equal parts thrilling, mysterious, exotic and terrifying!

When the ghost of a Civil War soldier, killed visiting his sweetheart across enemy lines, comes back to haunt the Virginian locals at an old mine, Rick Brant and his ex-marine colleague Scotty decide to investigate. - Summary by John Walker