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  Tartuffe - Full Text and...

  Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  Moliere's comic masterpiece Tartuffe is one of the most famous French plays of all time. This Drama Classics edition is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell, Professor of Literary Translation at the University of Exeter.

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  King Henry IV Part 1

  William Shakespeare

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  King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingbroke) and Henry Percy (Hotspur) argue over the disposition of prisoners from the Battle of Holmedon. The King’s attitude toward Mortimer and the Percy family prompts them to plot rebellion. In the meantime, his son Prince Hal is living the low life in the company of Sir John Falstaff. As the time of battle nears, Prince Hal joins his father and is given a high command. The play’s climax is the Battle of Shrewsbury, in which Prince Hal and Hotspur meet and fight, with Prince Hal and the forces of the King prevailing. The action continues in King Henry IV, Part 2. From the start this has been an extremely popular play both with the public and with critics. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden and Wikipedia)Characters: Narrator/stage directions: read by KalyndaKing Henry IV and Douglas: read by Mark F. SmithHenry, Prince of Wales: read by Max Porter ZasadaPrince John of Lancaster: read by Brian EdwardsEarl of Westmoreland: read by Larysa JaworskiSir Walter Blunt: read by Joshua B. ChristensenEarl of Worcester: read by David BarnesNorthumberland and 2nd Messenger: read by Lisa WilsonHenry Percy (Hotspur): read by Michael SiroisEdmund Mortimer: read by Scott SherrisScroop, Archbishop of York: read by Vin ReillyPeto, Sir Michael, Chamberlain, and Travellers: read by MockfrogOwen Glendower: read by Denny SayersSir Richard Vernon: read by David MuncasterSir John Falstaff: read by John LiederPoins: read by Jordan SchneiderGadshill, Francis, and Ostler: read by Alan ClareBardolph: read by David ZezulkaLady Percy: read by Cecelia PriorMrs. Quickly, Hostess: read by Rosalind WillsFirst Carrier: read by Maria MorabeSecond Carrier: read by Ophelia DarcyServant: read by Katie GibboneyVintner: read by Lauren Tunnell VerdeyenSheriff: read by Heather BarnettFirst Messenger: read by Laurie Anne Walden

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  Short Poetry Collection 118

  Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013.

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Cynthia Haltom

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  Julia has been let go from her job of 20 years, as a ground water geologist in Eastern Washington and must find a new way to support herself. She decides to pack up her belongings and return to her family's cottage on Pine Island. There she hopes to find a new meaning to her life, while living in the peaceful and serene setting that she always experienced in the northern woods of Canada. 
  She is surprised to discover that her old buddy, Andrew, still spends every summer across the river on Brown's Island, where he spent his youth with his family. The two had always spent their childhoods playing, fishing and enjoying the tranquility of island life as children. Once again, they share time enjoying the love of the great north. 
  Julia had left for college over two decades ago, to make a life for herself working on the plutonium ground water cleanup project left from the atomic bomb processing, at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, Washington. There she had made a life for herself; not returning to the island she loved so much. Destiny forced her to reevaluate her life and priorities encompassing many changes in attitudes and lifestyle. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Ophelia

  Walter de la Mare

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  Ophelia, poem of the week for February 25, 2007; read here by twelve of our readers. This was published in 1920 in  "Collected Poems 1901-1918" by Walter De la Mare.Ophelia loved Hamlet, was repulsed by him, and went insane. She drowned in a stream, gathering flowers of remembrance. This is one of a number of poems that De La Mare wrote about Shakespeare characters. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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  Jonathan's Hope

  Hans M Hirschi

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  Abandoned to freeze to death in a winter forest by his father because of his homosexuality, Jonathan desperately struggles to survive, until he accidentally stumbles upon Dan, who owns a cabin in the woods. 
  Dan has been fighting his own demons since the death of his lover Sean. Having retreated from big city life, he is content to live in solitude, but he never counted on meeting Jonathan.  
  Given the dire circumstances, Dan must set his own needs aside to help Jonathan reclaim his life, but he soon finds that the ghosts of both their pasts won’t die so easily. 
  In this trilogy: 
  Jonathan's Hope (Book 1) 
  Jonathan's Promise (Book 2) 
  Jonathan's Legacy (Book 3)

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