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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

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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

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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

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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

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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), …

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