Works of Roberta Kalechofsky in Context

This CD contains five novels, a book of short stories, and a book of essays by Roberta Kalechofsky, together with 270 related classic books that provide a context for better appreciating and enjoying her work.

Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), Roberta's books are presented in HTML format (for use with a Web browser or Word), and the context books are presented in plain text format, organized for easy access.

About the Author
Roberta Kalechofsky is the author of seven works of fiction, a monograph on George Orwell, poetry and two collections of essays. She has been published in quarterlies, reviews and anthologies, and was the recipient of Literary Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts.

Several of her stories, and two novellas, La Hoya and Stephen's Passion, have been translated into Italian and published in Italy. La Hoya received excellent reviews in major publications, such as Corriere Della Sera., and was included in a college curriculum in Italy under the title, Veduta di Toledo.. Stephen's Passion has also been included in a college curriculum in courses in American Fiction in the University of Florence, under the title, La Passione Di Stephen. Her novel, Bodmin, 1349: An Epic Novel of Christians and Jews in the Plague Years, was included twice in a college curriculum in the United States.

She began Micah Publications in 1975 and has received publishing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, in addition to her literary fellowships. As a publisher, she created The Echad Series, which includes five anthologies of Jewish writing from around the world, and has published 40 different titles in poetry, fiction, scholarship, vegetarianism and animal rights. She is active in the animal rights and vegetarian movements and began the organization, Jews for Animal Rights, in 1985, and coordinates publishing projects with this organization.

She has also been a contributing editor to various magazines, such as Margins, and On The Issues, and taught at Brooklyn College for four years.

She was a participant in a round-table discussion, "Please Use Other Door: Literary Creativity and the Publishing Industry," with Cynthia Ozick, Hugh Nissenson, Gordon Lish, Elizabeth Sifton and Robert Boyers, which was published in RSA Journal, #3 (March, 1992).

She graduated from Brooklyn College and received a doctorate in English literature in 1970 from New York University.

A critical essay on her work can be found in the Dictionary of Literary Biographies, Volume 28: Jewish Fiction Writers.

Table of Contents

Roberta's books (in html format):

• Bodmin, 1349 (novel)
• Autobiography of a Revolutionary: Essays on Animal and Human Rights
• The Martyrdom of Stephen Werner (novel)
• Solomon's Wisdom and Other Stories
• Job Enters a Pain Clinic (story)
• Justice My Brother, My Sister (novel)
• Orestes in Progress (novel)
• A View of Toledo (novel)

Roberta's context (in plain text format):

• Religion (cf. Bodmin, Solomon, Job, Martyrdom)

Jewish Religion

• The Tanach or Jewish Bible, 1917 Jewish Publication Societies' English translation
• The Babylonian Talmud translated by Michale L. Rodkinson
• Volume 1 -- Tract Sabbath, volume 1
• Volume 2 -- Tract Sabbath volume 2
• Section Moed (Festivals)
• Volume 3 -- Tract Erubin
• Volume 4 -- Tracts Shekalim and Rosh Hashana
• Volume 5 -- Tract Pesachim
• Volume 6 -- Tracts Yomah and Hagiga
• Volume 7 -- Tracts Betzah, Succah, an Moed Katan
• Volume 8 -- Tracts Taanith, Megill, and Ebel Rabbathi
• Section Jurisprudence (Damages)
• Volume 9 -- Tracts Aboth, Derch-Eretz, and Zeta
• Volume 10 -- Tract Baba Kama, Part 1
• Volume 11 -- Tract Baba Kama Part 2 and Baba Metzia Part 1
• Volume 12 -- Tract Baba Metzia Part 2
• Volume 13 -- Tract Baba Bathra Part 1
• Volume 14 -- Tract Baba Bathra Part 2
• Volume 15 -- Tract Sanhedrin Part 1
• Volume 16 -- Tract Sanhedrin Part 2
• Volume 17 -- Tracts Maccoth, Shebuoth, and Eduyoth
• Volume 18 -- Tracts Abuda Zara and Horioth
• Volume 19 -- History of the Talmud volume 1
• Volume 20 -- History of the Talmud volume 2
• Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) translated by Charles Taylor [an extract from the Talmud]
• Hebraic Literature: translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
• Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport
• Kabbala Denudat: The Kabbalah Unveiled, containing the following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, and The Lesser Holy Assembly, translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers
• Kabbalah -- Sephir Yetzirah, translated by W.W. Westcott (short)
• The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, translated from German by Henrietta Szold
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides translated by M. Friedlander
• Judaism by Israel Abraham
• Jewish History: an Essay in the Philosophy of History by S.M. Dubnow
• Lord's Lectures: Beacon Lights of History volume 2: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
• Medieval Hebrew, featuring the Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel by Julius Wellhausen, translated from German by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies
• Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
• Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirque Aboth) translated by Charles Taylor
• Saying of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot) translated by Joseph Gorfinkle
• part 1
• part 2
• Stories of the Prophets by Isaac Landman
• Josephus
• Against Apion
• Antiquities of the Jews
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Extract from the Greeks Concerning Hades (short)
• Life of Flavius Josephus
• Wars of the Jews
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7

Christian Religion

• The King James Bible
• The Books of Moses
• Genesis
• Exodus
• Leviticus
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy
• The Histories
• Joshua
• Judges
• Ruth
• 1 Samuel
• 2 Samuel
• 1 Kings
• 2 Kings
• 1 Chronicles
• 2 Chronicles
• Job/Psalms/Proverbs
• Ezra
• Nehemiah
• Esther
• Job
• Psalms
• Proverbs
• Ecclesiastes
• Song of Solomon
• Prophets
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Lamentations
• Ezekiel
• Daniel
• Hosea
• Joel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Jonah
• Micah
• Nahum
• Habakkuk
• Zephaniah
• Haggai
• Zechariah
• Malachi
• The New Testament
• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke
• John
• Acts
• Romans
• 1 Corinthians
• 2 Corinthians
• Galatians
• Ephesians
• Phillippians
• Collossians
• 1 Thessalonians
• 2 Thessalonians
• 1 Timothy
• 2 Timothy
• Titus
• Philemon
• Hebrews
• James
• 1 Peter
• 2 Peter
• 1 John
• 2 John
• 3 John
• Jude
• Revelation
• Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible)
• First Book of Esdras
• Second Book of Esdras
• The Greek Additions to Esther
• First Book of Maccabees
• Second Book of Maccabees
• The Book of Tobit
• The Book of Judith
• The Book of Wisdom
• The Book of Sirach
• The Book of Baruch
• Epistle of Jeremiah
• The Book of Susannah
• The Prayer of Azariah
• The Prayer of Manasseh
•  The Book of Bel and the Dragon
• The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles by Archbishop Wake

Christian Saints and Fathers

• Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus
• Female Scripture Biography by Francis Augustus Cox, 1831
• volume 1
• volume 2
• For Greater Things: The story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka by William T. Kane, S.J.
• Imitation of Christ
• The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey de Vere
• Letters of Catherine Benincasa (Saint Catherine of Siena)
• Life and Legends of St. Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe
• Life of St. Francis of Rome by Lady Georgiana Fullerton
• St. Augustine's Confessions
• Saint Augustin by Louis Bertrand
• The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
• Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
• Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
• Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by St. Teresa

• Medieval Europe (cf. Bodmin)
• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

In Italian, with accents La Divina Commedia

In Italian without accents La Divina Commedia

In English translation:

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy

translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

translated by Charles Eliot Norton

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1350)
• The Decameron, Volume 1, translated by J. M. Rigg
• La Fiammetta, translated by James C. Brogan, 1907
• Richard de Bury (1287-1345)
• Philobiblion, the Love of Books
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
• Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Court of Love
• The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
• The Assembly of Fowls
• The Flower and the Leaf
• The House of Fame
• Troilus and Cressida
• Chaucer's Dream
• The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
• Chaucer's A.B.C.
• Miscellaneous Poems
• About Chaucer
• Chaucer's Official Life by Jame Root Hulbert
• Life of Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward
• John Gower (1330-1408)
• Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
• Sir John Mandeville
• Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1366)
• Medieval French Literature
• Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with Other Poems, translated to English by Andrew Lang includes:
• Charles d'Orlean
• Francois Villon
• Joachim du Bellay
• Remy Belleau
• Pierre Ronsard
• Jacques Tahureau
• Jean Passerat
• also, 19th century poets Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Gerard de Nerval, and Henri Murger
• Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
•  Erec et Enide
• Cliges
• Yvain
• Lancelot
• High History of the Holy Graal, anonymous continuation of an unfinished romance by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
• Old French Romances, in English, translated by William Morris
• Poesies du Troubadour Peire Raimon de Toulouse, old French and modern French without accents, edited by Joseph Anglade
• The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
• Medieval English History

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890) translated by James Ingram

Arthurian Chronicle: Roman de Brut by Wace translated by Eugene Mason

Cameos from English History from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Yonge, 1873

England Under the Tudors by Arthur Innes

English Villages by P.H. Ditchfield, 1901

History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) c. 800 AD, by Nennius, Translated by J. A. Giles

The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Adams

The History of England by A.F. Pollard

The History of England, volume 1, by David Hume

The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George V by John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc, volume 8

Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry Shelley

Landholding in England by Joseph Fisher

Magna Carta (text of the document)

Young Folk's History of England by Charlotte Yonge

• Medieval French History
• From Ritual to Romance by Jesse Weston
• In Troubadour Land: a Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. Baring-Gould
• Crusades (1 book, 290 Kbytes)
• Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
• Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix
• Joan of Arc (3 books, 1.4 Mbytes)
• Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Mrs. Oliphant
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Greek Classics (cf. Orestes)

Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith, 1893, includes:

• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
• The Persians by Aeschylus
• The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• The Choephoroe [Libation Bearers] by Aeschylus
• The Eumenides [Furies] by Aeschylus
• Oedipus by Sophocles
• Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
• Antigone by Sophocles
• Ajax by Sophocles
• Electra by Sophocles
• Trachiniae by Sophocles
• Philoctetes by Sophocles

Aeschylus (see also Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith)

• The House of Atreus translated by E.D.A. Morshead, including:
• Agamemnon
• The Libation Bearers
• The Furies
• Four Plays translated by E.D.A. Morshead, including:
• The Suppliant Women
• The Persians
• The Seven Against Thebes
• Prometheus Bound

Euripides

• Alcestis translated by Gilbert Murray
• The Hippolytus and the Bacchae
• Iphigenia in Tauris
• The Trojan Women, translated by Gilbert Murray

Homer (see also, Hesiod for Homerica)

• Iliad
• translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated by Alexander Pope
• translated by Edward Earl of Derby
• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
• Quintus of Smyrna
• The Fall of Troy, in English

Sophocles (see also Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith)

• The Oedipus Trilogy, includes:
• Oediups the King, in English
• Oedipus at Colonnus, translated to English by F. Storr
• Antigone, in English

• Latin American History, Travel, and Exploration (cf. Martyrdom)
• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• volume 2
• History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott
• Inca Land: Exploration in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham, 1922
• Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804 by Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Reize Naar Surinamen en Door de Binneste Gedeelter van Guiane by Captain John Gabriel Stedman, in Dutch
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Simon Bolivar the Liberator by Guillermo Sherwell
• Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray
• Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras by Harry Franck
• Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767 by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
• Animal Rights, Slavery, and Women  (cf. Autobiography)
• representative works by authors with similar sympathies:
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Thomas Paine
• The Age of Reason
• The American Crisis
• Common Sense
• The Rights of Man
• Victor Hugo
• Les Miserables
• Notre Dame de Paris
• John Ruskin
• Stones of Venice
• John Galsworthy
• A Man of Property
• Thomas Carlyle
• The French Revolution
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Sartor Resartus
• Robert Browning
• Dramatic Lyrics
• Lewis Carroll
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Samuel Johnson
• Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
• Mark Twain
• Huckleberry Finn
• Life on the Mississippi
• Roughing It
• A Tramp Abroad
• Anti-Slavery (cf. Autobiography)

American Scenes and Christian Slavery: a Recent Tour of 4000 Miles in the US by Ebenezer Davies

American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Phillips

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1836-1839

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

The Anti-Slavery Crusade: a Chronicle of the Gathring Storm by Jesse Macy, 1919

Appeal to Christian Women of the South [regarding slavery] by Angelina Emily Grimke

Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson, 1875

A Child's Anti-Slavery Book

Discours sur la necessite et les Moyens de Detruire l'Esclavage dan les Colonie by de Ladebat, 1788

An Essay on Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species by Thomas Clarkson, 1786

History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of Abolition of the Slave-Trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson 1839

History of Liberia by J.H.T. McPherson

Lands of the Slave and the Free or Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Captain Henry Murray, 1857

More Seeds of Knowledge or Another Peep at Charles, being an account of Charles's Progress in Learning about Black Slaves, etc. by Julia Corner

Slave Narratives by the Federal Writers' Project, 1941

• Volume 2, Arkansas
• part 1
• part 7
• Volume 6, Kansas

The Slave Trade by H.C. Carey

Thirty Years a Slave, Autobiography by Louis Hughes

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in British Colonies by T. Clarkson, 1823

Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, 1856

• Medicine (cf. Autobiography)

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George Gould and Walter Pyle

Appendicitis by John Tilden

Birth Control by Halliday Sutherland

The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler

Hygienic Physiology by Joel Steele

Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis

Practical Physiology by Albert Blaisdell

The Vitamine Manual by Walter Eddy

• Women's Rights (cf. Autobiography)
• American Thumbprints: Mettle of Our Men and Women by Kate Stephens
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife by Frances Roe
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household by Mrs. A.M. Diaz
• Female Suffrage by Susan Fenimore Cooper
• The Four Epoch's of a Woman's Life: a Study in Hygiene by Anna Galbraith
• A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith
• The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times by E.S. Brooks
• In Defense of Women by H.L. Mencken
• The Joys of Being a Woman by Winifred Kirkland
• Maria or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw
• Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
• The Unexpurgated Case Against Women's Suffrage by Almroth Wright
• Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation by Carrie A. Nation
• A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Woman on the American Frontier by William Fowler
• Animals (cf. Autobiography)
• Animal Heroes by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Book About Animals by Rufus Merrill, 1850
• Concerning Animals and Other Matters by E.H. Aitken
• The Naturalist on the Thames by C.J. Cornish
• Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Secrets of the Woods by William J. Long, 1901
• Henry David Thoreau
• Excursions
• Walden
• Walking (short)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Dogs
• Beautiful Joe: an Autobiography [of a dog] by Marshall Saunders
• The Dog by William Youatt
• Dogs and All About Them by Robert Leighton
• A Dog of Flanders by Louisa de la Rame [Ouida]
• A Dog's Tale (short) by Mark Twain
• His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
• True Stories About Dogs and Cats by Eliza Lee Cabot Foller
• Cats
• Concerning Cats, My Own and Some Others by Helen M. Winslow
• Farm Animals
• Cow Country by B.M. Bower
• The Mule by Hawey Riley, 1867
• Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Horses
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton Reeks, 1906
• A Dissertation on Horses by William Osmer
• A Horse's Tale (short) by Mark Twain
• Wild Animals and Hunting
• American Big Game in Its Haunts: the Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, edited by George Bird Brinnell, 1907
• The Arctic Prairies: a Canoe Journey of 2000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
• Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke
• The Dancing Mouse: a Study in Animal Behavior by Robert Yerkes
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals by William Hornsday, 1922
• A Short Treatise on Hunting by Thomas Cockaine, 1591
• Sportsman's [Hunting] Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Bears
• The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thomspon Seton
• The Grizzly King, a Romance of the Wild
• Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Wolves
• Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
• Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• White Fang by Jack London
• Wolf's Long Howl by Stanley Waterloo, 1899
• Jungles and Jungle Creatures
• Bengal Dacoits and Tigers by Maharanee Sunity Devee
• The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White
• The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes by Robert M. Yerkes
• The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Bett
• The Naturalist on the River Amazon by Henry Pater
• The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker
• Novelists
• Conrad

Chance

End of the Tether

Heart of Darkness

Lord Jim

The Mirror of the Sea

Nostromo

Secret Sharer

Typhoon

Victory

Youth

• Melville

Bartleby

Billy Budd

Moby Dick

Omoo

Redburn

Typee

White Jacket

• Hawthorne
• From Mosses from an Old Manse
• The Great Stone Face
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Other Tales and Sketches
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Snow Image
• Twice Told Tales

"Talking" software included on this book CD

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of the software is intended for Windows PCS, not Macs.) You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

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