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Jim Brown
Read by Ralph Klapis
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Blind by Alan Porter
Read by Newgatenovelist
Alan Porter, Aldous Huxley, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Sherard Vines
In Wheels - The Fifth Cycle
The Fifth Cycle of the Wheels poetry anthology was published in 1920 and contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Leah McTavish Coehn, …
Chapter V: "The Jim Crow Car"
Read by Theoden Humphrey
John Clay Coleman
In The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
The Compact
Read by James K. White
Joyce Emmerson Muddock
In Stories Weird and Wonderful
A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.
29 - Reform Through Reading
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Heywood Broun
In Seeing Things at Night
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)
Chapter 12
Read by VivianWeaver
Henry Cadwallader Adams
In Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
Echoes
Read by MichaelMaggs
Lewis Carroll
In Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …
George Meredith
Read by Alan Mapstone
Joyce Kilmer
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Books and Reading
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Noah Porter
[The author] hopes that the effect of these discussions may lead to more comprehensive and elevated estimates of authors and of literature o…
Enter Pepsy
Read by Lynne T
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
In Pee-Wee Harris (Version 2)
Last summer I went down to where my uncle lives and spent vacation there and I had a peach of a time and all the things I did are told in th…
Perkin Warbeck
Read by Connie Bettison
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
Between Carthage and Kensington
Read by Jim Locke
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In The Lady's Mile
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Ulysses
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Wilbur D. Nesbit
In An Alphabet of History (Version 2)
These witty, engaging and amusing poetic descriptions of the lives of prominent people are not only a joy to read, but are a quick and easy …
He's Taken Out His Papers
Read by kaylawhy
Edgar A. Guest
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
Jim Dudley’s Race
Read by Greg Giordano
Palmer Cox
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
Section 5: First Annual Message
Read by Jim Clevenger
James D. Richardson and Ulysses S. Grant
In A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant
The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messag…
Complaint
Read by Carol
Aldous Huxley
In The Burning Wheel
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …
Jim Crow - Detective, by Stanley Edwards Johnson
Read by Greg Giordano
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 01 October 1898
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Memorial Tablet
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Siegfried Sassoon
In Selected Poems
Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his outspoken opinions on the futility of war, is portrayed in these poems as an observer, an observer of …
Chapter 24
Read by Jim Locke
Talbot Baines Reed
In Cock-House at Fellsgarth
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von