Single Author Collections
Tales of Unrest (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
The Fable of the Bees
Read by Matthew Muñoz
Bernard Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and d…
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2
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Wallace Stevens
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil…
The Gardener
Read by Phil Schempf
Rabindranath Tagore
Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the s…
Dreams
Read by NoelBadrian
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earli…
The Son of the Wolf
Read by Ben Tucker
Jack London
The Son of the Wolf is Jack London's first published collection of stories and features tales chronicling the harsh realities of living in t…
The Blue Flower
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Henry van Dyke
"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of …
A Shropshire Lad (version 2)
Read by Jon Sindell
A. E. Housman
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …
How to Make a Man of Consequence
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Mark Lemon
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to …
A Christmas Miscellany
Read by David Wales
Various
A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales
The Crescent Moon
Read by Anusha Iyer
Rabindranath Tagore
This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanj…
The Human Boy Again
Read by David Wales
Eden Phillpotts
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…
Mountain Interval (version 2)
Read by Mister Lukey
Robert Frost
Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published b…
Miss Bracegirdle and Others
Read by MichaelMaggs
Stacy Aumonier
A 1923 collection of tales by the British author Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), described by John Galsworthy as "one of the best short-sto…
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 2
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Marguerite Of Navarre
THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day cont…
Poems for my Children
Read by Phil Benson
Ann Hawkshaw
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection o…
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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Lucan
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…
Two Supernatural Stories
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Perceval Landon
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives …
The Black Dog and Other Stories
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A. E. Coppard
Coppard was renowned for his influence on the English short story and here we present a collection, first published in 1923, featuring 18 of…
The Third Person
Read by Anthony Orr
Henry James
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …