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Alexandria reads for Librivox in Dramatic works, Collaborative works, and solo works. See her projects below.
DRAMATIC WORKS
DRAMATIC
By Jules Verne
Scottish merchant James Playfair makes a daring attempt to run the Charleston blockade during the American Civil War to trade ammunition to the Confederates for cheap cotton. However, two sailors on board have other plans for his voyage, namely rescuing an influential Union prisoner from the hands of the Confederates. – Summary by Alexandria Adair
DRAMATIC
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Featuring a largely Scottish cast, LibriVox brings to you Stevenson’s classic adventure tale.
David Balfour’s uncle has him kidnapped in order to cheat him out of his inheritance! After being shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland, David reunites with a friend from the voyage (wanted Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart) only to find they are now suspects in a murder! David and Alan must flee across Scotland to get David back his inheritance and Alan to safety in France! – Summary by Alexandria Adair
DRAMATIC
By Gertrude Chandler Warner
This is a story about four children who ran away from home after their parents died. They are trying to hide from their grandfather, and end up finding a box-car to live in. They have many adventures, and they always stay together no matter what. (Summary by Norah Nelson)
DRAMATIC
By Howard Pyle
Here is a stout, lusty fellow who goes by the name of Henry II. Here is a fair, gentle lady before whom all the others bow and call her Queen Eleanor. Here is a fat rogue of a fellow, dressed up in rich robes of a clerical kind, that all the good folk call my Lord Bishop of Hereford. Here is a certain fellow with a sour temper and a grim look-the worshipful, the Sheriff of Nottingham. And here, above all, is a great, tall, merry fellow that roams the greenwood and joins in homely sports, and sits beside the Sheriff at merry feast, which same beareth the name of the proudest of the Plantagenets-Richard of the Lion’s Heart.
DRAMATIC
By E. Nesbit
Part One of E. Nesbit’s collection of short stories, The Book of Dragons. In The Dragon Tamers a blacksmith finds and captures a dragon in his cellar. But after saving the town from a dragon, it declares it’s going to eat the town!. In The Island of the Nine Whirlpools the Queen goes to the witch and asks for an heir to the throne, but forgets to ask for a boy! The King is so upset, he locks the princess in a tower until a brave young boy saves her! In The Book of Beasts Lionel is unexpectedly made the King because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather has died. Ignoring the advice of the Chancellor and Prime Minister to avoid opening the Book of Beasts, he allows the escape of several creatures, who proceed to wreak havoc! – Summaries by Kylie6Q, Winnifred, and Alexandria Adair.
DRAMATIC
By Charlotte Maria Tucker
A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about family life and siblings. The narration from the needle tells how he was made and witnesses the relationships within the family. The needle also makes friends with a thimble and some scissors. – Summary by Susan Russell
DRAMATIC
By Charlotte O’Brien
Religious Fiction Dramatic Reading
DRAMATIC
By Caroline Dale Snedeker
Dencey Coffyn grows up as a Quaker during Nantucket’s whaling days in the early 1800s. Full of heart, with an adventurous spirit that can find trouble easily, she works hard to make amends for the stones she cast at Sammie Jetsam. Dencey has a deep respect for her strict mother and a heart-filling love for her often absent ship’s-captain father. Dencey’s and Sam’s various adventures introduce us to other Quaker personalities, the Nantucket Quaker culture, and fun community events that were a mainstay at that time. Downright Dencey is a 1928 Newbery Honor book. – Summary by Lynette Caulkins
DRAMATIC
By Alfred John Church
The Rev. Alfred J. Church, who has made a good reputation by his stories of life in the Biblical and classic world, adds to his laurels by a fresh volume entitled ‘The Burning of Rome.’. It is a story of the days of Nero, and shows how the Christians and pagans lived and thought, and how the new religion gradually displaced the old in the minds and hearts of converts. (Summary by The Critic, 1891)
DRAMATIC
Full-cast readings of favorite short stories and chapters from beloved novels, brought to life for you by LibriVox readers. This collection includes A House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore (originally published 1928, by *Milne), Cinderilla (1697 Perrault), The Little Engine That Could (1930 *Piper), Tootie at the Bank (1913 Wells), Ch.4 & 5 of The Three Musketeers (1844 Dumas), The Yellow Sign (1895 Chambers), Rapunzel (1890 Lang), Sir Christopher Cockleshell (1905 Nesbit), The Queen’s Croquet-Ground (1865 Carroll), The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1930 *Coatsworth). (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)
SOLOS
SOLO
By G.A. Henty
Oswald Forster grows up during the tumultuous years of the early 15th century on the English/Scottish border. Entering the service of Henry “Hotspur” Percy, he travels throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, fighting Glendower and the Welsh, the Bairds and their allies in Scotland, and finally assisting the Percy family in their attempt to overthrow King Henry and re-instate the true heir, thereby beginning the Wars of the Roses. (Summary by Alexandria Adair)
SOLO
Weston Translation
King Arthur and his knights and ladies are enjoying a New Year’s feast when the Green Knight enters their midst and offers a strange challenge! A knight has one chance to strike a blow on him without resistance, so long as the Green Knight gets to do the same to that night one year later. Our impetuous Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and chops the Green Knight’s head off, but the Green Knight simply picks up his head and walks off, telling Gawain where to find him next year! Sir Gawain must make up his mind whether to keep his word and face the potentially disastrous consequences, or bear the shame of having broken his oath for the rest of his life! (Summary by Alexandria Adair)
PLAYS
DRAMATIC
By the age of 30, Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, had mastered a vast empire. But the brilliant young warrior-king was unable to master his own passions or those of his generals and closest friends and advisors. Court intrigue thus threatened to undo all that Alexander had managed to do.
Considered one of Nathaniel Lee’s best tragedies, The Rival Queens, or, The Death of Alexander the Great dramatizes a story of the rivalry between Alexander the Great’s two wives: Roxana, his first, and Statira, who displaced her. The play was first performed at London’s Theatre Royal by the King’s Company. It was influenced by Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède’s, Cassandre. – Summary by Brian Fullen
DRAMATIC
Stalino and Euthynicis have both fallen in love with Casina.. It is arranged that Stalino and Euthynicis (Cleostrata’s son) shall draw lots to see who will determine her future. But Cleostrata develops a stratagem to try to prevent this.
– Summary by ToddHW
SHORT WORKS
SHORT STORY
The Basatables are back! This time they make a fire balloon and watch it sail away – but a fire the next morning brings horrible fears they may have committed a serious crime – ARSENIC!!!!
SHORT STORY
Of course, an abandoned house has GOT to be checked out by the six inquisitive Bastables. However it’s not as abandoned as they thought: there’s counterfieters, theives, and robbers!
SHORT STORY
When will Oswald learn to keep his big mouth shut? He must learn to deal with the consequences when he accidentally helps two deserters be re-captured.
SHORT STORY
Entertain yourself with the hilarious shenanigans of the six Bastables as they try to raise money for charity.
SHORT STORY
The famed French detective is in Texas and must solve the mystery of the robbery of somebody’s socks! As hilarious as it sounds, the theft of the socks could have an impact that could change the course of US history!
SHORT STORY
Nobody quite knows what’s going on: but is this the demise of Tictocq, France’s famed detective?
Poem
In Short Poetry Collection 275
Poem
In Short Poetry Collection 275
NONFICTION
Famous 1320 declaration of Scottish independence
COLLABORATIVE WORKS
COLLABORATIVE
Unlike many of Potter’s previous books, “The Fairy Caravan” is a longer chapter book, featuring Tuppeny, a guinea pig who runs away to join a miniature travelling circus led by Sandy the Highland Terrier and Pony Billy.
COLLABORATIVE
This book tells the tale of Miles Milton, a runaway from home who enlists as a soldier and fights in the British campaign in the Sudan. (Summary by Grace Silvey)
COLLECTIONS
COLLABORATIVE
“LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life…”
Hugh McGuire, LibriVox’s founder, August 9, 2005
In celebration of LibriVox’s 21st anniversary, here is collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words ‘one-and-twenty,’ ‘twenty-one,’ ‘twenty-first,’ or the number 21. Each piece is selected and read by a LibriVox volunteer.
COLLABORATIVE
A collection of favorite shakespeare excerpts chosen by volunteers.
COLLABORATIVE
A collection of short Aesop’s fables presented in English, Chinese, and Spanish. These brief animal stories convey simple moral lessons in a gentle, bedtime-friendly style. – Summary by LydiaX
COLLABORATIVE
A collection of short Aesop’s fables presented in English, Chinese, and Spanish. These brief animal stories convey simple moral lessons in a gentle, bedtime-friendly style. – Summary by LydiaX
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