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LibriVox is an invented word inspired by Latin words liber (book) in its genitive form libri and vox (voice), giving the meaning BookVoice (or voice of the book). The word was also coined because of other connotations: liber also means child and free, independent, unrestricted. As the LibriVox forum says: "We like to think LibriVox might be ...
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements.
Recording in French by Nadine Eckert-Boulet for LibriVox. Sung in French by Ezwa for LibriVox. "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part ...
Zadig or the Book of Fate public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Zadig, and other stories; chosen and edited with an introd., notes, and a vocabulary by Irving Babbitt (1905)" Zadig, and other tales, 1746-1767. A new translation by Robert Bruce Boswell (1910)" Zadig, An English Translation by Donald M. Frame (1961) (in French) Zadig, audio version
He sees Vincentine as giving profound meaning to Earth through her perfection, but not quite a fully realized deity of both earth and heaven. [4] For Vendler this lack of full realization is the point: "Brutality and apotheosis end in stalemate."
Monadology public domain audiobook at LibriVox; English translation and commentary (1999), by George MacDonald Ross; A version of this work, lightly edited for easier reading; French, Latin and Spanish edition (1981), with facsimile of Leibniz's manuscript, and introduction by Gustavo Bueno; Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Monad" . Catholic ...
His father was the Canadian-American philosopher Roy Wood Sellars, a leading American philosophical naturalist in the first half of the twentieth-century. [12] Wilfrid was educated at the University of Michigan (BA, 1933), the University at Buffalo, and Oriel College, Oxford (1934–1937), where he was a Rhodes Scholar, obtaining his highest earned degree, an MA, in 1940.
The Theaetetus is one of the few works of Plato that gives contextual clues on the timeline of its authorship: The dialogue is framed by a brief scene in which Euclid of Megara and his friend Terpsion witness a wounded Theataetus returning on his way home after from fighting in an Athenian battle at Corinth, from which he apparently died of his wounds.