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Letter to Lord Chesterfield
Read by Michael Dalling
Samuel Johnson
In Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…
82. The Passing
Read by Michele Fry
Gilbert Parker
In A Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…
Viney's Free Papers
Read by KirksVoice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
Section 2
Read by Arthur Krolman
Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert
In Windfall and Waterdrift
This little square book, the colour of meadow forget-me-nots, is so modest and simple that it may very easily be passed over in a period whi…
GEORGE MARION McCLELLAN
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
In The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…
Letter to senator Hawley
Read by Enko
Voltairine de Cleyre and Voltairine De Cleyre
In Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories
Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and spe…
11 - Epilogue
Read by Cynthia Moyer
Hugh Walpole
In The Golden Scarecrow
Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The G…
The Question
Read by nbvoices
Laura Goodman Salverson
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
Ulysses S. Grant by Hamlin Garland
Read by Paula Messina
Various
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Lariat Bill by G W H
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
G. W. H.
In The Coo-ee Reciter
Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practic…
The Gift of the Magi
Read by Brian Albert
O. Henry
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2022
The 2022 Christmas collection brings some old favourites along with some new selections, from the traditional to the bizarre. Among the sele…
Section 5
Read by Anthony Ogus
John Boynton Priestley
In Brief Diversions
A miscellany of what the author describes as "Tales, Travesties and Epigrams" all of them very short. They were written while Prie…
Mr. Thomas Sheridan and Replies
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two
He lived simply, loved his walks and craved the company of fellow poetical wits as they craved his company in return. With his pal Dr. Sheri…
Imri Swazey by Edgar Lee Masters
Read by Phil Schempf
Margaret Widdemer
In A Tree with a Bird in it
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill, Read by TD
Read by Skip Corris
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …
The Playtime of Bachelor Bill
Read by Alan Mapstone
James W. Foley
In Boys and Girls
A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each…
Book First
Read by Peter Tucker
William Wordsworth
In The Prelude, Version 2
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
Dirge
Read by Newgatenovelist
Muna Lee
In Sea-change
Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summa…
The Night Nurse By Will S. Gidley
Read by docdlmartin
Various
In Short Stories From Life
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…