Art
A Little Tour in France
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then ba…
Music Talks With Children
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Thomas Tapper
"A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a fe…
Die Neue Malerei
Read by Dirk Weber
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (* 8. Februar 1880 in München; † 4. März 1916 bei Verdun, Frankreich) war ein deutscher Maler und neben …
The Stones of Venice
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John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …
Van Dyck
Read by Susan Morin
Percy M. Turner
A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic …
The Medici
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G. F. Young
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…
The Art of Stage Dancing
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Ned Wayburn
Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …
Knights of Art
Read by Susan Morin
Amy Steedman
A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the de…
Woman as Decoration
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Helen M. Urban and Emily Burbank
A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)
The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book
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Jane Eayre Fryer
Mary Frances is a little girl whose Aunt Maria intends to teach her to knit and crochet, but she's very strict and demanding. It's a good th…
A Color Notation
Read by Availle
Albert Henry Munsell
A Color Notation is a method developed by A. H. Munsell in order to produce a unified system of color classification. The system identifies …
Appreciations
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Walter Pater
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars
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Edward Weitzel
A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public "intimate pen pictures o…
The Tower Of London
Read by David Wales
Arthur Poyser
Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving d…
The Eyes of the Movie
Read by Chuck Williamson
Harry Alan Potamkin
"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…
The Gentle Art of Faking
Read by Jordan Watts
Riccardo Nobili
IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary …
LibriVox Anniversary Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…
Tutankhamen
Read by Steven Seitel
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …