Single Author Collections
The Judgement of Valhalla
Read by Nemo
Gilbert Frankau
Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty ye…
My Little Book of Prayer
Read by KevinS
Muriel Strode
A number of what we might call epigrams concerning one's will, determination, spirituality, and other foci of interest. - Summary by KevinS
Enoch Arden
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the poem "Enoch Arden," Tennyson's epic narrative of the enduring power of love in the face of insurmountable odds, is found a …
The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Paul Bewsher
Paul Bewsher writes poems of a wartime aviator from his heart and soul. His heart longs for an end to the perils of war and the forced destr…
Something Childish and Other Stories
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Katherine Mansfield
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
The Five Nations Vol I
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childr…
Color
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Precepts in Practice; or, Stories Illustrating the Proverbs
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Fifteen short stories that are full of morals and wisdom, warmth and comfort, charm and wit—all inspired by the book of Proverbs. Each of th…
The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
An Isle in the Water
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Katharine Tynan Hinkson
'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance, comes a woman artist. An Isle in the Water is a collection of fifteen w…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
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Bliss Carman
In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great…
Selected Poems
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Robert Frost
These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston"…
If I May (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
Stories and Pictures
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I. L. Peretz
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse
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Philip Doddridge
The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Alba…
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales
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Richard Connell
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Golden Windmill and Other Stories
Read by MichaelMaggs
Stacy Aumonier
In this 1921 collection of short stories, many dealing with the experiences of ordinary people during the Great War, the master English stor…
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (Version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
Mother and Daughter
Read by Newgatenovelist
Augusta Webster
Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a…
Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3)
Read by Newgatenovelist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)