Single Author Collections
Poems of Passion
Read by Joy Chan
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A collection of love poems. (Summary by Joy Chan)
Poems
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi
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Leo Tolstoy
Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; s…
The Literary Sense
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E. Nesbit
A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…
Roads of Destiny
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O. Henry
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
John Sherman and Dhoya
Read by David Wales
William Butler Yeats
In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
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Aldous Huxley
Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…
Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
William Carlos Williams
Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was …
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, hor…
Tales of the Uneasy
Read by Lisa Reichert
Violet Hunt
Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Viol…
The Man Without A Country And Other Tales
Read by David Wales
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contri…
The Burning Wheel
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Aldous Huxley
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …
A Selection of Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh
Read by Algy Pug
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also wel…
Men Without Women
Read by James Hutchisson
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Lik…
The Poems of Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. …
Uncanny Stories
Read by Rhiannon Damon
May Sinclair
May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories is a collection of short stories filled with macabre, romantic, and Gothic themes. Enjoy tales of love and lo…
Widdershins (Version 2)
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Oliver Onions
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface "These stor…
Men, Women and Guns
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Sapper
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…