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George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
A Dialogue
Read by Nemo
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Lines to a Don
Read by Larry Wilson
Hilaire Belloc
In Verses
A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Author's Word
Read by Denise Ray
Claude Mckay
In Harlem Shadows
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family…
Book 2 Ch 9 Kari Comes to his Own
Read by Andy Sames
H. Rider Haggard
In The Virgin of the Sun
A great adventure following the exploits of a hero who's blood runs red, and Viking in nature. A mysterious chest with faded parchments prov…
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Wallace Stevens
In The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…
X. The Great Understanding
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Sax Rohmer
In The Yellow Claw
When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…
Upstream
Read by Nemo
Carl Sandburg
In Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Chapter 4
Read by Greg Lewin
Arnold Bennett
In The Old Adam
Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midland…
Chapter XXIV. To Introduce 719
Read by markfriendlds
Sax Rohmer
In Dope
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…
The Valley of the Just
Read by Ben Tucker
Sax Rohmer
In The Haunting of Low Fennel and Other Stories
Sax Rohmer, creator of legendary criminal mastermind Fu Manchu, brings together a collection of seven stories that are equal parts thrilling…
Prologue
Read by Larry Wilson
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
Book V, chapter 9
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Benjamin Disraeli
In Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…
All Aboard
Read by Daniel Hees
David Cory
In Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe
David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is the one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots fo the legend of Pus…
Finale
Read by Nemo
Rev. Leonard Wilson Arnold Luckey
In The Morning Dawn
"The Morning Dawn, Bar Harbor, Maine: a Very Comprehensive Poem Illustrating and Describing the Scenic Beauty of the United States; Laf…
Bachin'
Read by Ed Humpal
Charles Badger Clark
In Sun and Saddle Leather
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost …
Two Conversations
Read by Elroi
H. Rider Haggard
In Joan Haste
A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard's most poignant love stories. Joan Haste, a beautiful but illegitimate woman whose mother …
Chapter 17
Read by Marty
Ray Cummings
In Wandl the Invader (version 2)
There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began…
A Pleasant Interview
Read by Keith Salis
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
In Mary Anerley
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…