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Read by Anthony Ogus
Arnold Bennett
In Riceyman Steps
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
Sect 06
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
In The Chateau of Prince Polignac
A short story by one of the masters of Victorian literature, written early in his career. Characteristic of much of his later novels, it is …
Chapter 9
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G. K. Chesterton
In The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)
Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…
England part 3
Read by Anthony Ogus
D. H. Lawrence
In England, My England
A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the Firs…
Ogre
Read by Nemo
F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Avarice
Read by KevinS
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 ogiva sombria
Read by Rachel Moraes
Teófilo Braga
In Contos phantasticos
Coletânea de contos com temas de paixões frenéticas, conducentes a suicídios, mortes, traições, ren…
Chapter X - Saint Anthony's Well
Read by E Ogston
Wilkie Collins
In The Two Destinies
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…
Passus I
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
In The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
The Tryst
Read by Tomas Peter
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
Part I
Read by Newgatenovelist
Novalis
In Hymns to the Night, version 2
Written after a bereavement, ‘Hymns to the Night’ considers hope, faith and spirituality in the face of loss. This recording is of George Ma…
Chapter 3. "Adam-like, Pietro sighed and said no more"
Read by Tony Oliva
Robert Browning
In The Ring and the Book
"Better translate--"A Roman murder-case:"Position of the entire criminal cause"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,"Wit…
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Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
ΟΙ ΣΦΟΥΓΓΑΡΑΔΕΣ
Read by Penelope
Andreas Karkavitsas
In Λόγια της Πλώρης: Θαλασσινά Διηγήματα
Θάλασσα, αλμύρα, οι μοίρες των ανθρώπων, το ταξίδι, η επιστροφή, η αγάπη κ ύστερα πάλι σιωπή!!! Sea, salt, the destinies of people, the jour…
Ogre, The
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
William Carlos Williams
In Selected Early Poems of 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 …
Chapter 16. Stephen's Tale
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arthur Morrison
In The Hole in the Wall
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse
Read by Tomas Peter
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…
St. Anthony
Read by Nemo
Olive Custance
In The Inn of Dreams
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
Understanding
Read by Tomas Peter
Rudolph Valentino
In Day Dreams
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…
*Zyma vetus expurgetur. Adam of St. Victor.
Read by Adrian Stephens
John Mason Neale
In Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences
This book is a collection of English translations of medieval Latin hymns. It contains interesting historical and/or liguistic facts about e…