Gardening in the Eighteenth Century

Poetry

LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection

by VARIOUS ( - )

For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year. This year is no exception.Readers have contributed 88 recordings in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish and Yiddish, and this feast of fiction, poetry, essays, articles and musical items ranges from lectures to love letters, science to songs, travel to taxes, and politics to pirates, spiced with a dash of humour.It has, as always, been enormous fun for the readers and singers, and we hope that you, the listener, will gain just as much enjoyment as we have had producing it. (Introduction by Ruth Golding) Some additional notes: Section 5, Extract from The Eight-oared Victors, Chapter 35, was written by Howard Garis under his pseudonym Lester Chadwick. Section 37, Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII also includes letters to Henry from Anne Boleyn (1501-1536). Section 53, Letters I to VIII of Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the 18th Century was edited by Emily Fanny Dorothy Osborn McDonnell (1851-1925). Section 54 Eight Little Letters Make Three Little Words: Words by Bert Kalmar (1884-1947); Music by Ted Snyder (1881-1965). Section 55, Koenig Heinrich der Achte – Prologue was translated into the German by Wolf Graf Baudissin (1789-1878). Section 65, The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup was translated into English by Shigeyoshi Obata. Section 77, In The Year 2889 was jointly written by Jules Verne (1828-1905) and Michel Verne (1861-1925). Section 79, Eight-day Clocks was written by Mary Mapes Dodge under her pseudonym Joel Stacy. Section 82, Que ne suis je la fougère Bergerette du 18ième siècle. Words: Riboutté (1770-1834); Music: Pergolesi (1710-1736).

Listen next episodes of LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection:
A Note on the Problem of the Eight Queens , A Retrospect of Eight Decades, Chapters I and II , A Shropshire Lad: Poem VIII , A Tete-a-tete at Eight , Acht , Booksellers' Sales in the Eighteenth Century , Collecting Eight Billions of Dollars for the Government, from Munsey’s Magazine, April 1920 , Das achte Oktavheft , Die acht Brunos , Die achte Todsünde , Eight , Eight-day Clocks , Eight hour Strike , Eight Little Letters Make Three Little Words , Eight Years in a British Consulate, from 1861 to 1869 , Elizabeth Woodcock buried in the snow of February 1799, Eight days and Eight nights , God's Octave , In The Year 2889 , König Heinrich der Achte - Prologue , Les huit chevreaux , Letters I to VIII of Political and social letters of a lady of the eighteenth century, 1721-1771 , No. 289 - A Vision , Oh, LibriVox is Eight, it is , Oh Mensch! Gieb acht! , Proverbs: Chapter 8 , Que ne suis-je la fougère? Bergerette du XVIII siècle , Sculling Fours and Eights , Sechse, Sieben oder Acht , Selection from Eighty Years and More: 'My First Speech Before a Legislature' , Shall Our Presidents Be Elected For Eight Years? , Sonnet 8 , Sonnets 8, 18, 28 and 38 of Emaricdulfe , The Eight Immortals , The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup , The Eight Roads from The Broom Fairies, and Other Stories , Von acht Rossen , When Hannah Var Eight Yar Old