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The Yellow Sign

Read by Eva Staes


Robert W. Chambers


In The King in Yellow (Version 2)

A collection of stories that inspired the works of many writers such as HP Lovecraft, "The King in Yellow" revolves around the pla…

The Green Mouse

Read by Eva Staes


Robert W. Chambers



A collection of stories about a machine that bring men and women together regardless of situation, where love prevails. (Summary by Eva Stae…

Deliver Me from Eva

Read by Ben Tucker


Paul Bailey



When a frequently published writer of historical novels lays a masterpiece of uninhibited, spine-chilling horror on a publisher's desk, the …

Electra (Storr Translation)

Read by Expatriate


Sophocles



Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) …

The Rubinstein Staccato Etude, Read by ED

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


R. Nathaniel Dett


In The Rubinstein Staccato Etude

This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R.…

Dusk

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


F. S. Flint


In Otherworld: Cadences

English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…

St. Ptolemy

Read by Alan Mapstone


James Hebblethwaite


In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite

James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …

Inferno

Read by Sandra Cullum


Clark Ashton Smith


In Ebony and Crystal

As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…

Adventure IX: The Greek Interpreter

Read by Eric Leach


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doy…

Sappho: A New Rendering

Read by Libby Gohn


Sappho



Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…

Explanation …

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


Wallace Stevens


In Harmonium

This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…

Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Read by Adrian Stephens


Various


In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…

The Letters

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


In Maud, and Other Poems

A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…

28 - Thorn Rose

Read by Sibella Denton


Ida Coe and Alice Christie, Ida Coe, Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon and Ida Coe And Alice Christie Dillon


In Story Hour Readers: Third Year

Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…

The Clouds

Read by Expatriate


Aristophanes



Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he c…

Strafe

Read by mleigh


Ivor Gurney


In Severn and Somme

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…

Electra (Murray Translation)

Read by Expatriate


Euripides



Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemn…

Letter to Sura

Read by Linda Ferguson


Pliny the Younger


In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003

A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

Astraea Redux

Read by Peter Tucker


John Dryden


In The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…

Anodyne

Read by Newgatenovelist


Marion Strobel


In Selected Poems

Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, O…

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