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Chapter VII. The Story of Gilbert
Read by Virginia Neville
Jane Andrews
In Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now
A children’s book that describes the life of ten boys in different historical time periods. The book shows the reader what the daily life of…
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…
To the Reader
Read by InTheDesert
John Owen
In Eshcol
This little book was published in 1647, soon after Owen had formed a church on the principles of Independency at Coggeshall, in Essex. It is…
A Fragment
Read by Scotty Smith
Alfred Austin
In Narrative Poems
Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913) became English Poet Laureate after the death of Tennyson. He was awarded the post only after several other poets…
30. The Choice
Read by Simona Rusu
Gilbert Parker
In A Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…
03 - Chapter 3
Read by Phil Benson
Frederik van Eeden and Frederik Van Eeden
In Little Johannes
In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the a…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
The Perfect Reader
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Christopher Morley
In Plum Pudding (version 2)
Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…
Eleventh Letter - To Stephen Girard Jones
Read by Keith Salis
Josiah Gilbert Holland
In Letters to the Joneses
We watch our news and live our lives and see many things wrong with society today. It is easy for us to claim that things were better in &qu…
A Question
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alan Sullivan
In The White Canoe and Other Verse
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…