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Our House
Read by Olivereading
Christopher Morley
In Short Poetry Collection 125
This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2013.
Book V, Chapter I
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
In Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 2
Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history an…
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…
A Thought from Propertius
Read by Peter Tucker
William Butler Yeats
In The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
Louis Riel
Read by Alan Mapstone
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Get Next!
Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh and George V. Hobart
John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters,…
The Story of Robert Owen
Read by KevinS
John Spargo
In Socialist Readings for Children
A collection of readings designed more for youngsters aged 12 or older than for children, in my view. The presentation is idealistic and off…
To L—
Read by Andrew Gaunce
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
A Question
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Will
Read by MichaelMaggs
Alfred Tennyson and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2)
Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secre…
Section 5: First Annual Message
Read by Jim Clevenger
James D. Richardson and Ulysses S. Grant
In A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant
The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messag…
Book III - Massilia, part 2
Read by Craig Campbell
Lucan
In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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…
A Question
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alan Sullivan
In The White Canoe and Other Verse
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…
Tradition
Read by KevinS
Herbert Read
In English Prose Style
Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…
Author's Note
Read by David Wales
Oliver Herford
In Cupid's Cyclopedia
This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and i…
Chapter 14
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Christopher Morley
In Where the Blue Begins
In his collection Plum Pudding, Christopher Morley included two pieces about an unprepossessing mutt named “Haphazard Gissing I” with a gift…
A Year Ago
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Frank Oliver Call
In In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems
These magnificent poems written by a lover of the natural splendor of untrodden lands are both thrilling and exhilarating. Visions and obser…
The Question
Read by Inkell
Stephen Phillips
In Poems
A short collection of poems by the Oxford-born poet and playwright Stephen Phillips including his two major works Marpessa and Christ In Had…
From Novels and Stories, M. Robinson, The New Adelphi
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …
Epilogue
Read by Rob Marland
Lord Alfred Douglas
In In Excelsis
In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy …