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Emerson Lecturing
Read by BettyB
George William Curtis
In From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…
chapter 41
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
George Eliot
In Felix Holt, The Radical
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Eros by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read by Nathali Carrera
Various
In Love Poems by Famous Authors
A collection of love poems, including the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, Tristram & Iseult, and selections from many authors inc…
George Eliot
Read by Bruce Pirie
Virginia Woolf
In The Common Reader
A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…
George and Andrew
Read by benjaminpwhite
George MacDonald
In The Elect Lady
Two farmer's sons and a cotter's daughter, though on different rungs of the social scale, formed a close bond in childhood as they learned t…
George Meredith
Read by Alan Mapstone
Joyce Kilmer
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
CHAPTER XIX. The Old One Yields
Read by cyndajm
Harold L. Goodwin
In The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Join the adventure of teenage Rick Brant, and his friend Scotty as they tackle the impending eruption of the volcano El Viejo on the island …
A Visitor
Read by Ian King
George Sterling
In A Wine of Wizardry
A dark and moody collection of poems, influenced by the author's experience of nature, rather than an idealized notion of it. "The uncr…
The Sentences
Read by Brize C
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…
chapter XIX
Read by April6090
Gertrude Atherton
In The Crystal Cup
The story begins with ... “Old age will be served,” said Mrs. Carteret grimly. “But I suppose you think I am a long time dying.” This author…
Character by Emerson
Read by kevinHolm
Montrose L. Barnet
In Poems We All Love
This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but w…
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
Emerson, by Chester Noyes Greenough
Read by MoonLylith
Charles William Eliot
In Lectures on the Harvard Classics
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
Alton B. Parker
Read by mleigh
Harry Graham
In More Misrepresentative Men
A collection of humorous verse covering a variety of men.
The Imperial Institute
Read by Emerson Wells
George R. Sims
In Dagonet Ditties
George Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, prolific in his output and known for his satire and humor. These q…
George Crabbe
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
In Children of the Night
This is a collection of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, titled the Children of the Night, and including, besides the famous title poem, s…
Donelson
Read by Alan Mapstone
Herman Melville
In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
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…
To E.W.G.
Read by Louis Keye
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
In Examination
Read by Graham Redman
Rupert Brooke
In The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), …