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Tannhäuser

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Wagner


The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

Poems of Pilgrimage

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Thomas Hardy


A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerla…

Admirals All

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Sir Henry Newbolt


A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…

Poems (Version 2)

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Wilfred Owen


The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…

The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor

In The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…

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Eva March Tappan


This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

BOOK IV. Tintagel. Chapter VIII

In Uther and Igraine

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Warwick Deeping


This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)

Bees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

In The American Bee Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Jan 1894

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Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…