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  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The...

  Omar Khayyám

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  The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally penned in medieval Persian during the late 11th century AD.  
  The best known English translations are those by Edward Fitzgerald: his fifth (and last) translation includes a mere 101 quatrains - a fraction of Omar's original work. Fitzgerald's selection loosely groups quatrains by theme; rendering quatrains into English as four-line, rhymed stanzas.  
  Omar's writings are pervaded by the consciousness of the transient quality of life. In his Rubáiyát, the author ponders the limits of human knowledge and morality: and confronts his readers point-blank with the difficult questions that challenge every generation:  
  - what is the ultimate benefit derived from human knowledge?  
  - given human mortality; is is best to guide our lives by the dictates of reason, or sensuality?  
  - what happens to my soul when I die?  
  - why did God - the Creator - give me existence?  
   
  (Introduction by Godsend)

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  The Old Man and the Ass

  Jean de La Fontaine

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the text.) This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2013.Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages.According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Pigs and Dogs (NHB Modern Plays)

  Caryl Churchill

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  'You western-backed goats,
  They forced us into slavery and killed millions.
  Now they want us to accept the sinfulness of homos.
  It shall not work.'
  In 2014, Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexuality Act. This short, startling play looks at what lies behind it.
  Caryl Churchill's Pigs and Dogs premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.

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  Sports Poetry

  Henry Newbolt, Sir Arthur Conan...

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  It is human nature to create and compete. Both of these are brought together in Sport. Many games began in distant eons and gradually adapted and became codified to those we know today. In this volume we celebrate, through the verse of so many well known poets, sports of all kinds. Sports for the rich sports for the poor and all manner in between. As Henry Newbolt would say ‘Play Up Play Up and Play The Game. Our collection is read by many including Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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  Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse...

  Thornton W. Burgess

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  Danny begins his tale regretting the length of his tail until he is corrected by Mr. Toad. Then he has a series of stalkings by Reddy and Granny Fox. He is captured by Hooty the Owl and escapes mid-flight to Peter Rabbit's briar patch. Peter goes to Farmer Brown's peach orchard and gets caught in a snare and barely escapes himself. Finally Danny gets trapped in a tin can and must use his wits to escape Reddy Fox again. (Summary from Wikipedia)Cast:Narrator..............................Linette Geisel Danny Meadow Mouse.......Marty Kris Striped Chipmunk...............Elizabeth Klett Johnny Chuck.....................Barry Eads Old Mr. Toad.......................Scott A. Jackson Reddy Fox..........................Chris Marcellus Granny Fox.........................Patti Cunningham Hooty the Owl......................Elizabeth Klett Tommy Tit the Chickadee....Amy Gramour Peter Rabbit........................ToddHW Farmer Brown.....................Barry Eads Farmer Brown's Boy............ChyAnne DonnellAudio Edited By: Linette GeiselThis project was proof listened by Linette Geisel and ToddHW.

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  The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

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  Valentine is preparing to leave Verona for Milan so as to broaden his horizons. He begs his best friend, Proteus, to come with him, but Proteus is in love with Julia, and refuses to leave. The play deals with the themes of friendship and infidelity, the conflict between friendship and love, and the foolish behaviour of people in love. This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare's work. Read in English, unabdridged.

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