LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): Poetry, Short Stories, Essays & Short Works

Narrators: Christiane Jehanne, KevinS, Bill Mosley, Sue Anderson, Mary In Arkansas, Glenn O'Brien, Winnifred Assmann, Colleen McMahon, Devorah Allen, Ted Perkins, Isad, Lightcrystal, Krista Zaleski, Paula Messina, Ben Tucker, Czandra, Mleigh, Algy Pug, Garfield Dsouza, Lorda, Cavaet, Mark Leder, Rapunzelina, Ahana M, TriciaG, Michele Fry

Number of Chapters: 30

Length: 06 hours and 17 minutes

Language: Multilingual

"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..."
Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005

In celebration of LibriVox's seventeenth anniversary, here is collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words 'seventeen' or 'seventeenth' or the number '17.' Each piece is selected and read by a LibriVox volunteer.

17 septembre 1793 de Jocelyn, 3éme période (Christiane Jehanne)

À Cassandre Ode 17 (Christiane Jehanne)

Canto 17 from "Seventeen Cantos from the Inferno", translated by Thomas William Parsons (KevinS)

Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six (Bill Mosley)

Appearance of the 17-year Cicada in Rhode Island in 1903 (Sue Anderson)

Doctors' Riot, 1788 (Mary in Arkansas)

Section 17, from "Doctrine and Covenants" (Glenn O'Brien)

Gertrude the Governess; or, Simple Seventeen (Winnifred Assmann)

New York Times article, July 17, 1917: "Tells How She Hid on Army Transport" (Colleen McMahon)

Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea (Devorah Allen)

Introduction to "William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics" (Ted Perkins)

Jeune fille, la grâce emplit tes dix-sept ans (Isad)

Chapter 2: The Earliest Smugglers, from "King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855" (lightcrystal)

Louis Seventeenth: The Boy King Who Never Reigned (Krista Zaleski)

Meditation XVII (Paula Messina)

Number 17 (Ben Tucker)

Chapter 1 of "Number Seventeen" (czandra)

Psalm 17, KJV (mleigh)

The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Chapter 17 (Algy Pug)

Roman ou On n’est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans (Isad)

Volume 1 Part 3 Section 17, "Summary of the Position", of "The Secret Doctrine" (czandra)

A Seventeenth-century Story (Garfield Dsouza)

Die Siebenzehnjährige auf dem Balle (lorda)

Sonnet 17 (Cavaet)

Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 17 (Mark Leder)

The Stamp-Act Riot of 1765 (Mary in Arkansas)

Sweet Seventeen (Howell) (Rapunzelina)

Sweet Seventeen (Linton) (Ahana M)

The war message of President Woodrow Wilson delivered to the Congress of the United States April 2nd, 1917; also, The proclamation of war signed by the President April 6th, 1917 (TriciaG)

Preface to "The Working Life of Women in the 17th Century" (Michele Fry)

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