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Chapters 03, 04
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In The Curious Quest
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …
Ch. 11: Charles Martel
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Howard Bertram Masterman
In The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The …
Satire on the Dutch
Read by Peter Tucker
John Dryden
In The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…
05 - Emerson, Part 2
Read by Lori Arsenault
John Albert Macy
In The Spirit of American Literature
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …
The Open Letter
Read by John Doherty
Albert Bushnell Hart and Albert Bushnell Hart
In The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin
This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor, published May 15, 1918.Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th cen…
Bertzi Wasserfuhrer by Isaiah Lerner
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Helena Frank, Varioustranslated Byhelena Frank and Varioustranslated By Helena Frank
In Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה)
A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, …
Providence
Read by Mark Stansbury
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
20 - Conscious
Read by David Richardson
Wilfred Owen
In Poems
A collection of poems by the English war poet and soldier of the First World War, Wilfred Owen. Owen is regarded by historians as the leadin…
Uriel
Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Short Poetry Collection 212
This is a collection of 56 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2021.
An Amiable Charlatan
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Chapter 19 - Isadore Hamel is asked to lunch
Read by tabithat
Anthony Trollope
In Ayala's Angel
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
Dialogue
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Peter Giles to the Right Honourable Ierome Buslyde
Read by Ruth Golding
Sir Thomas More and Thomas More
In Utopia (Robinson translation)
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…
Goethe and Frederika
Read by Sonia
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
In A Hundred Great Poems
This is a compilation by Richard Cross of 100 poems by various poets. - Summary by Mozartjr
Bert Kessler
Read by Matthew Walton
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…
Part 5
Read by Phil Chenevert
Frederik Pohl
In Search the Sky
Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole plan…
Prefatory note by the editor—To the Reader
Read by InTheDesert
John Owen
In Of Temptation
To one who reads the treatise in the spirit with which the author wrote it, simply that he may judge his own heart, and know what temptation…
Window
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
To ——
Read by Foon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…
Why is the Globe
Read by SKVeld
Oliver Herford
In This Giddy Globe (Version 2)
A geography of the world at the time, told with a wit and humor unusual in non-fiction and historical texts while staying true to the subjec…