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MP3 Audio CD. Saved at Sea CHAPTER I. MY STRANGE HOME. It was a strange day, the day that I was born. The waves were beating against the lighthouse, and the wind was roaring and raging against everything. Had not the lighthouse been built very firmly into the strong solid rock, it, and all within it, must have been swept into the deep wild sea. It was a terrible storm. My grandfather said he had never known such a storm since he came to live on the island, more than forty years before. Many ships went down in the storm that day, and many lives were lost. But in the very midst of it, when the wind was highest, and the waves were strongest, and when the foam and the spray had completely covered the lighthouse windows, I, Alick Fergusson, was born. I was born on a strange day, and I was born into a strange home. The lighthouse stood on an island, four miles distant from any land. The island was not very large; if you stood in the middle of it, you could see the sea all round you--that sea which… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Peep Behind the Scenes CHAPTER I ROSALIE Rain, rain, rain! How mercilessly it fell on the Fair-field that Sunday afternoon! Every moment the pools increased and the mud became thicker. How dismal the fair looked then! On Saturday evening it had been brilliantly lighted with rows of flaring naphtha-lights; and the grand shows, in the most aristocratic part of the field, had been illuminated with crosses, stars, anchors, and all manner of devices. But there were no lights now; there was nothing to cast a halo round the dirty, weather-stained tents and the dingy caravans. Yet, in spite of this, and in spite of the rain, a crowd of Sunday idlers lingered about the fair, looking with great interest at the half-covered whirligigs and bicycles, peeping curiously into the deserted shows, and making many schemes for further enjoyment on the morrow, when the fair was once more to be in its glory. Inside the caravans the show-people were crouching over their fires and grumbling at the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Peep Behind the Scenes CHAPTER I ROSALIE Rain, rain, rain! How mercilessly it fell on the Fair-field that Sunday afternoon! Every moment the pools increased and the mud became thicker. How dismal the fair looked then! On Saturday evening it had been brilliantly lighted with rows of flaring naphtha-lights; and the grand shows, in the most aristocratic part of the field, had been illuminated with crosses, stars, anchors, and all manner of devices. But there were no lights now; there was nothing to cast a halo round the dirty, weather-stained tents and the dingy caravans. Yet, in spite of this, and in spite of the rain, a crowd of Sunday idlers lingered about the fair, looking with great interest at the half-covered whirligigs and bicycles, peeping curiously into the deserted shows, and making many schemes for further enjoyment on the morrow, when the fair was once more to be in its glory. Inside the caravans the show-people were crouching over their fires and grumbling at the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Saved at Sea CHAPTER I. MY STRANGE HOME. It was a strange day, the day that I was born. The waves were beating against the lighthouse, and the wind was roaring and raging against everything. Had not the lighthouse been built very firmly into the strong solid rock, it, and all within it, must have been swept into the deep wild sea. It was a terrible storm. My grandfather said he had never known such a storm since he came to live on the island, more than forty years before. Many ships went down in the storm that day, and many lives were lost. But in the very midst of it, when the wind was highest, and the waves were strongest, and when the foam and the spray had completely covered the lighthouse windows, I, Alick Fergusson, was born. I was born on a strange day, and I was born into a strange home. The lighthouse stood on an island, four miles distant from any land. The island was not very large; if you stood in the middle of it, you could see the sea all round you--that sea which… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1 I | 1 | However, she noted the rules as specified are necessary so not enough to his faculty of speech are strong, but to them the ease of a certain firm, which among the Greeks ἕξις term of office; approach How to enroll or more by reading or telling comparison is usually asked to know. that would to be examined more carefully for us, if any one of the things that we could be together satisfied | 2 | all things were linked together, and the two were inseparable, so are they among so true that, if the among all these be wanting, all is in vain to the other places I have struggled. For he neither made of solid and the style of eloquence has never been the strength of a strong, unless he has received, and much more, devoid of any guide, and on this side of the reading, the example of that labor of a fluitabit; and that he will know that, too, they were just going to say, except, however, was in military… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1 I | 1 | However, she noted the rules as specified are necessary so not enough to his faculty of speech are strong, but to them the ease of a certain firm, which among the Greeks ἕξις term of office; approach How to enroll or more by reading or telling comparison is usually asked to know. that would to be examined more carefully for us, if any one of the things that we could be together satisfied | 2 | all things were linked together, and the two were inseparable, so are they among so true that, if the among all these be wanting, all is in vain to the other places I have struggled. For he neither made of solid and the style of eloquence has never been the strength of a strong, unless he has received, and much more, devoid of any guide, and on this side of the reading, the example of that labor of a fluitabit; and that he will know that, too, they were just going to say, except, however, was in military… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator]

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MP3 Audio CD. The Story Book of Science CHAPTER I THE SIX ONE evening, at twilight, they were assembled in a group, all six of them. Uncle Paul was reading in a large book. He always reads to rest himself from his labors, finding that after work nothing refreshes so much as communion with a book that teaches us the best that others have done, said, and thought. He has in his room, well arranged on pine shelves, books of all kinds. There are large and small ones, with and without pictures, bound and unbound, and even gilt-edged ones. When he shuts himself up in his room it takes something very serious to divert him from his reading. And so they say that Uncle Paul knows any number of stories. He investigates, he observes for himself. When he walks in his garden he is seen now and then to stop before the hive, around which the bees are humming, or under the elder bush, from which the little flowers fall softly, like flakes of snow; sometimes he stoops to the ground for a better view of a little… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Life of the Fly, With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography CHAPTER I. THE HARMAS This is what I wished for, hoc erat in votis: a bit of land, oh, not so very large, but fenced in, to avoid the drawbacks of a public way; an abandoned, barren, sun scorched bit of land, favored by thistles and by wasps and bees. Here, without fear of being troubled by the passersby, I could consult the Ammophila and the Sphex [two digger or hunting wasps] and engage in that difficult conversation whose questions and answers have experiment for their language; here, without distant expeditions that take up my time, without tiring rambles that strain my nerves, I could contrive my plans of attack, lay my ambushes and watch their effects at every hour of the day. Hoc erat in votis. Yes, this was my wish, my dream, always cherished, always vanishing into the mists of the future. And it is no easy matter to acquire a laboratory in the open fields, when harassed by a terrible anxiety… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Life of the Spider CHAPTER I: THE BLACK-BELLIED TARANTULA The Spider has a bad name: to most of us, she represents an odious, noxious animal, which every one hastens to crush under foot. Against this summary verdict the observer sets the beast’s industry, its talent as a weaver, its wiliness in the chase, its tragic nuptials and other characteristics of great interest. Yes, the Spider is well worth studying, apart from any scientific reasons; but she is said to be poisonous and that is her crime and the primary cause of the repugnance wherewith she inspires us. Poisonous, I agree, if by that we understand that the animal is armed with two fangs which cause the immediate death of the little victims which it catches; but there is a wide difference between killing a Midge and harming a man. However immediate in its effects upon the insect entangled in the fatal web, the Spider’s poison is not serious for us and causes less inconvenience than a Gnat-bite. That, at least,… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Miall, Bernard, 1876-1953 [Translator]

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MP3 Audio CD. The Life of the Spider CHAPTER I: THE BLACK-BELLIED TARANTULA The Spider has a bad name: to most of us, she represents an odious, noxious animal, which every one hastens to crush under foot. Against this summary verdict the observer sets the beast’s industry, its talent as a weaver, its wiliness in the chase, its tragic nuptials and other characteristics of great interest. Yes, the Spider is well worth studying, apart from any scientific reasons; but she is said to be poisonous and that is her crime and the primary cause of the repugnance wherewith she inspires us. Poisonous, I agree, if by that we understand that the animal is armed with two fangs which cause the immediate death of the little victims which it catches; but there is a wide difference between killing a Midge and harming a man. However immediate in its effects upon the insect entangled in the fatal web, the Spider’s poison is not serious for us and causes less inconvenience than a Gnat-bite. That, at least,… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Life of the Fly, With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography CHAPTER I. THE HARMAS This is what I wished for, hoc erat in votis: a bit of land, oh, not so very large, but fenced in, to avoid the drawbacks of a public way; an abandoned, barren, sun scorched bit of land, favored by thistles and by wasps and bees. Here, without fear of being troubled by the passersby, I could consult the Ammophila and the Sphex [two digger or hunting wasps] and engage in that difficult conversation whose questions and answers have experiment for their language; here, without distant expeditions that take up my time, without tiring rambles that strain my nerves, I could contrive my plans of attack, lay my ambushes and watch their effects at every hour of the day. Hoc erat in votis. Yes, this was my wish, my dream, always cherished, always vanishing into the mists of the future. And it is no easy matter to acquire a laboratory in the open fields, when harassed by a terrible anxiety… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Secret of Everyday Things THREAD Uncle Paul resumed his talks on things that grow and things that are made, while his nephews, Jules and Emile, and his nieces, Claire and Marie, listened to his "true stories," as they liked to call them, and from time to time asked him a question or put in some word of their own. Continuing the subject of cotton-manufacture, he called his hearers’ attention to the number of processes the raw material must go through before it emerges as finished fabric ready for making into wearing apparel, and to the countless workmen that must, from first to last, have been engaged in its production and in all the operations leading up to its final application to household uses. "Then I should think" said Marie, "that cotton cloth would be very expensive if all those workmen are to get their pay for the time and labor they have put into its manufacture." "On the contrary," Uncle Paul assured her, "the price… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Story Book of Science CHAPTER I THE SIX ONE evening, at twilight, they were assembled in a group, all six of them. Uncle Paul was reading in a large book. He always reads to rest himself from his labors, finding that after work nothing refreshes so much as communion with a book that teaches us the best that others have done, said, and thought. He has in his room, well arranged on pine shelves, books of all kinds. There are large and small ones, with and without pictures, bound and unbound, and even gilt-edged ones. When he shuts himself up in his room it takes something very serious to divert him from his reading. And so they say that Uncle Paul knows any number of stories. He investigates, he observes for himself. When he walks in his garden he is seen now and then to stop before the hive, around which the bees are humming, or under the elder bush, from which the little flowers fall softly, like flakes of snow; sometimes he stoops to the ground for a better view of a little… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator]

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MP3 Audio CD. The Secret of Everyday Things THREAD Uncle Paul resumed his talks on things that grow and things that are made, while his nephews, Jules and Emile, and his nieces, Claire and Marie, listened to his "true stories," as they liked to call them, and from time to time asked him a question or put in some word of their own. Continuing the subject of cotton-manufacture, he called his hearers’ attention to the number of processes the raw material must go through before it emerges as finished fabric ready for making into wearing apparel, and to the countless workmen that must, from first to last, have been engaged in its production and in all the operations leading up to its final application to household uses. "Then I should think" said Marie, "that cotton cloth would be very expensive if all those workmen are to get their pay for the time and labor they have put into its manufacture." "On the contrary," Uncle Paul assured her, "the price… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Mason-Bees CHAPTER 1. THE MASON-BEES. Reaumur (Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757), inventor of the Reaumur thermometer and author of "Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des insectes."—Translator's Note.) devoted one of his papers to the story of the Chalicodoma of the Walls, whom he calls the Mason-bee. I propose to go on with the story, to complete it and especially to consider it from a point of view wholly neglected by that eminent observer. And, first of all, I am tempted to tell how I made this Bee's acquaintance. It was when I first began to teach, about 1843. I had left the normal school at Vaucluse some months before, with my diploma and all the simple enthusiasm of my eighteen years, and had been sent to Carpentras, there to manage the primary school attached to the college. It was a strange school, upon my word, notwithstanding its pompous title of 'upper'; a sort of huge cellar oozing with the perpetual damp engendered by a well… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator]

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MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator]

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Journey back in time and immerse yourself in a world of timeless stories with our classic MP3 Audiobook series. Evoke the magic of yesteryears and let the narratives from eras gone by captivate your senses.

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Historical Significance: Journey back in time with this masterwork, which has shaped literature, inspired countless adaptations, and touched the hearts of generations.

Authentic Reproduction: Faithfully reproduced to capture the essence of the original publication.

High Quality Narration: Relish the richness of an advanced AI voice that brings alive the written tales and captures the essence of the classic era.

Consistent Quality:AI narration ensures a consistent tone and pace throughout the book. There's no risk of the narrator becoming fatigued or any… Read More