Search Results

Criticism and the Essay: General Introduction, by Bliss Perry

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Charles William Eliot


The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

Chapter 59: The Second Year of War: A Retrospect, part 2

In A History of the Great War, Volume Three

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


John Buchan


This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…

Part 1. Chapter 6

In Ladies Whose Bright Eyes: A Romance (1911 version)

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Ford Madox Ford


After a train accident, one Mr. Sorrell finds himself transported back to the Middle Ages, where he is mistaken for a Greek slave who works …

An Explanation by Way of Preface

In Three Good Giants

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


François Rabelais


As I went on, it did not take me long to discover that it was quite possible for my purpose—following, indeed, the path unconsciously taken …

The New Faces

In The Tower

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


William Butler Yeats


The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

Plain as the glistering planets shine

In Songs of Travel and Other Verses

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Robert Louis Stevenson


A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from…

Chapter 37

In Ran Away to Sea

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Thomas Mayne Reid


"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Chapter 22: The Great Conflict

In The Onslaught from Rigel

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Fletcher Pratt


“Mr. Pratt is well known for .… his excellent knowledge of warfare, and what a future war might be like. In this story he combines that know…

A Letter

In Short Poetry Collection 244

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Ralph Waldo Emerson


This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2023.

Book IV. Chapter 2. Xenocrates

In Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 1

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Diogenes Laertius


Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers provides a wealth information about the lives and teachings of ancient Greek thinkers. Desp…

The Silent Days by Yvor Winters

In Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Vol. 20, No. 6, Sep., 1922

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi


Various


Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded by poet and columnist Harriet Monroe in 1912. This journal is regarded as one of the major poetry jo…