(Summary by Annie Coleman)
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Johann David Wyss, the author, did not live to complete his tale. Storytellers over the years have injected so many episodes into the various versions that probably none closely match the original. (Indeed, the Baroness de Montholieu expanded the book from two volumes into five when she translated it into French.) This effort was re-translated into English in 1849 by W.H.G. Kingston, abridging the edition severely. It follows the British sensibilities of the period in terms of sentence structure and emphasis. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre \u00e0 la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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The story takes place during the American Civil War, and begins with Mr. March away from home as a chaplain to the Union army, while his wife and daughters remain at home to work and wait for his safe return. This book follows their joys and sorrows and scrapes along the path to the girl's becoming grown up \"little women\". Many of the scrapes they get into include Laurie--their harum scarum next door neighbor, who becomes their adopted brother. The two families, The March's and the Laurence's strike up a lasting friendship, despite their differences in material belongings. (Summary by Mary Anderson)","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/little_women_0711_librivox/littlewomen_01_alcott_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://ia801304.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/23/items/olcovers679/olcovers679-L.zip&file=6795866-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":628,"book_guid":"e4c0c90f56a47d520ce169f734832ab2","book_rating":4,"book_votes":35,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"young adult","language_names":"English"},{"id":54669,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"Moby Dick, or The Whale","book_author":"Melville, Herman","book_description":"Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique \u2014 but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book\u2019s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first \u201cmodern\u201d novel. (Summary by Stewart Wills)","book_sample":"https://archive.org/download/moby_dick_librivox/mobydick_000_melville_64kb.mp3","book_image":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9223598-L.jpg","book_url":null,"book_price":0,"book_code":753,"book_guid":"b260f7cd1f689b5273e92c7c2f2dedb3","book_rating":4,"book_votes":40,"author_names":null,"genre_names":"young adult","language_names":"English"},{"id":54713,"book_type":0,"book_provider":1,"book_title":"The Time Machine","book_author":"Wells, H. G.","book_description":"
The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. (Summary from wikipedia.org)
Note: This audiobook contains readings of chapter 1 by two different readers. Variety is the spice of life.
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was \"Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell.\" It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become an immediate bestseller, as well as it encouraging the better treatment of many cruelly-treated animals.
Although initially intended for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. The story is narrated in the first person and each short chapter relates an incident in Black Beauty's life, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel, with help.
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means \"Land of Men.\" In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savageTriceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel (Introduction by Wikipedia)
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