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The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Comme tous les soirs

In Poèmes

Read by Jessica


Emile Verhaeren


La poésie du poète flamand Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916) est inspirée par son observation critique de la vie des g…

War Crimes, Character, and Responsibility

In Changing Character of War

Read by Jessica Wolfendale


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ch 07 pt 1

In Miss Mapp

Read by Jessica Louise


E.F. Benson and E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Map…

A Serenade - Read by JS

In A Serenade

Read by Jessica Sondermann


Thomas Hood


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Serenade, by Thomas Hood.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2024. ------The…

Chapter 2

In The Green Millennium

Read by Jessica Martin


Fritz Leiber


From the classic science-fiction and fantasy author Fritz Leiber comes this intriguing tale of a green cat. From the author's introduction:…

Chapter 9: FAREWELL TO THE FOREST

In The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

Read by Jessica Hendra


Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

Little Busybodies

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 3, March 1899

Read by Jessica Louise


Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

I Establish My War Hospital

In Memories of My Life

Read by Jessica Hendra


Sarah Bernhardt


Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

HOW I KILLED A BEAR

In In the Wilderness (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


Charles Dudley Warner


Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

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