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  Mastery

  Sara Teasdale

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Mastery by Sara Teasdale. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28th, 2013.

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  Adventures of a Countryside...

  Dr. Thomas T Thomas

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  Sally, a beautiful young pregnant woman, came to the hospital supposedly for pre-term labor pains but delivered a fully mature, healthy boy. Her face, smiling with relief after the stress of delivery, quickly changed to apprehension.  
  “Doctor, what will you tell my husband and family? Can you please tell them that the baby is premature?” She asked. 
  “How can I?” Dr. Thomas replied helplessly. “The baby is fully grown and mature, as anyone can see.” 
  “You mean to say that there is nothing wrong with the child, Doctor?” Johnykutty, her husband, asked in dismay and anguish. “But we’ve been married for just seven months!” 
  Her husband and his family go away, leaving Sally and the illegitimate child. 
  What will be her future? 
  What fate awaits the unwanted child? 
  This book is an enchanting story of a young doctor couple who ventured into a remote, rural forested village to re-open a defunct hospital, their involvement in the mysteries and conflicts of their patients, the daunting challenges - both nonmedical and medical, the agony of failures, and the ecstasy of triumphs. 

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  Henry IV A Tragedy in Three Acts

  Luigi Pirandello

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  A talented actor and historian falls off his horse in a historical pageant while playing the role of Henry IV. When he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. For the next twenty years his nephew, Count de Nolli, funds an elaborate hoax in a remote villa, where actors play the roles of Henry's privy councillors and simulate the 11th century court. 
   
  On request from his dying mother, de Nolli brings a Doctor referred to as the latest in a succession to try to cure Henry (whose real name, if it is not Henry, is never mentioned). All the action of the play occurs in this one day of the visit. - Summary by Wikipedia 
   
  Narrator: KHandHenry IV: Peter TuckerThe Marchioness Matilda Spina: P. J. MorganFrida: Amanda FridayThe young Marquis Charles Di Nolli: Vin ReillyBaron Tito Belcredi: Delmar H DolbierDr. Dionysius Genoni: ToddHWHarold (Frank): Will IraceLandolph (Lolo): Levi ThrockmortonOrdulph (Momo): Adele de PignerollesBerthold (Fino): Mary JJohn: Mark ChulskyFirst Valet: Alex LaneSecond valet: Andrew ColemanProof-listened by Jeanie & Roohi

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  Richard III

  E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure,...

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  Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles. 
  The Yorkists have emerged victorious from the civil wars and Edward IV wears the English crown. But Edward's misshapen brother Richard harbors kingly ambitions and will stop at nothing to achieve the throne. In a fatal battle on Bosworth Field, Richard meets the ghosts of all whom he has murdered and the Earl of Richmond, the future King Henry VII. 
  Richard III is played by David Troughton. Saskia Wickham plays Lady Anne, Margaret Robertson plays Queen Margaret, and Philip Voss is Buckingham.

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  Dramatic Reading Scene and Story...

  Various Various

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  Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life with different reader voices for each character in our popular Dramatic Reading style.  This volume includes Anne's Confession from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Coming Home from Mates of Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce [not PD in Australia or Europe], Scandal in Bohemia from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl [only PD in the US], The Valley of the Shadow of Death from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke, Five Stories from the Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, The Proof of the Pudding from The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Garden Party and A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield, and The Tale of Samuel Whisker or The Roly Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter.

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  The Poetry of Amelia Opie -...

  Amelia Opie

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  Amelia Alderson, an only child, was born on the 12th of November 1769 in Norwich, England. 
  After the death of her mother the teenage Amelia became her father's housekeeper and hostess. 
  The young Amelia was energetic, attractive, and an admirer of fashion.  She spent much of her youth writing poetry and plays and putting on local amateur theatricals.  At 18 she had published anonymously ‘The Dangers of Coquetry’. 
  Amelia married in the spring of 1798 to the artist John Opie at the Church of St Marylebone, in Westminster, and together they lived in Berners Street in London's West End. 
  Her next novel in 1801 ‘Father and Daughter’, was very popular even though it dealt with such themes as illegitimacy, a socially difficult subject for its times.  From this point on published works were far more regular.  The following year her volume ‘Poems’ was enthusiastically received.  Novels continued to flow and she never once abandoned her social activism and her call for better treatment of women and the dispossessed in her works.  She was also keenly involved in a love of society and its attendant frills. 
  Encouraged by her husband to write more she published ‘Adeline Mowbray’ in 1804, an exploration of women's education, marriage, and the abolition of slavery.  
  Her husband died in 1807, and she paused from writing for a few years before resuming.  Of particular interest was her short poem ‘The Black Man's Lament’ in 1826.  Her life now was in the main spent travelling and working for charities and against slavery.  She even helped create a Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich which organised a parliamentary petition of 187,000 names of which hers was the first name. 
  After a visit to Cromer, a seaside resort on the North Norfolk coast, she caught a chill and retired to her bedroom.  
  Amelia Opie died on the 2nd of December 1853 in Norwich.  She was 84.

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