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Inscription and foreword
Read by Peter Tucker
Sir Walter Scott
In The Lay of the Last Minstrel
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
Author's Preface
Read by mleigh
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Announcements
Read by Esther ben Simonides
Charlotte Maria Tucker
In The Spanish Cavalier
When his father dies, Lucius Lepine goes to Spain as a clerk. His fellow clerk, Don Aguilera, doesn't come to work one day. Lucius is worrie…
Epistle to the Reader
Read by InTheDesert
John Flavel
In Preparations for Sufferings
That sufferings, both bodily and mental, are the lot of humanity, the testimony of scripture and reason abundantly confirm. But whatever may…
The Pleasures of Reading
Read by Bev J Stevens
Charles Dudley Warner, ed. and Arthur James Balfour
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Passing
Read by mleigh
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was 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…
Raleigh
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Wilbur D. Nesbit
In An Alphabet of History (Version 2)
These witty, engaging and amusing poetic descriptions of the lives of prominent people are not only a joy to read, but are a quick and easy …
Alton B. Parker
Read by mleigh
Harry Graham
In More Misrepresentative Men
A collection of humorous verse covering a variety of men.
Introduction
Read by KirksVoice
Arthur C. Parker
In Rumbling Wings
From these tales much may be learned concerning the mighty League of the Iroquois-the Men of Men-and of the custom and beliefs of the Nunda …
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
Introductory Epistle, Part C
Read by Bill Boerst
Sir Walter Scott
In The Monastery
Dame Elspeth is kept in a tower after the death of her husband. The widow of the Baron of Avenel and her daughter seek safety with Elspeth i…
Jonathan Houghton
Read by Kirk Thomas
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Viney's Free Papers
Read by KirksVoice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
The Unrevealed
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…
82. The Passing
Read by Michele Fry
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…
Isaac Ashford
Read by Brize C
Charles Knight
In The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 1
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
25 - Recollections
Read by NoelBadrian
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
In The Undying One and Other Poems
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
A Question
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
Read by Michael Dalling
Samuel Johnson
In Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…