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Chapter IX
Read by Jan Moorehouse
Kate Sanborn
In The Wit of Women
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…
Lethe
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…
Chapter 17 - The French Attempt on the Cynthia
Read by Terry Kroenung
Simon Newcomb
In His Wisdom, the Defender: A Story
A millionaire genius invents a flying armored suit, a la Iron Man. - Summary by Terry Kroenung
A Conversation at Dawn
Read by Sonia
Thomas Hardy
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
Dawn
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), …
Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Lonely
Read by Rachel Bishop
Edgar A. Guest
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
25 - To Jenny Lind
Read by Cate MacDonald
Anna Wales Abbot, ed and Anne Wales Abbot
In Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publi…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 004
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
On the Canticles - St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Read by Gloria Loughry
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 2
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
From Virginia Woolf and Others, Rachel A. Taylor, The Spectator
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …
021 - Reading Aloud
Read by Carmen H
Christopher Morley
In Chimneysmoke
A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. (Summary by Carmen H)
Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
Read by Inkell
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Infinity
Read by Elyse
Laura Goodman Salverson
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
Twin-Flower (Linnaea)
Read by Christine Rottger
Emily Shaw Forman
In Wild-flower Sonnets
A delightful calendar of sonnets celebrating wildflowers. A charming and fanciful collection of poems for every month of the year. - Summar…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 005
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox readers bring you 10 full-cast productions: from stories and fables for children, to a comical, self-satirizing play; from short my…