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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Sonnets

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Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

Astrophel and Stella

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Robert Marshall Allen


Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

The Wishing Horse of Oz

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Ruth Plumly Thompson


Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…

Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


World English Bible


Paul's letter to the Philippians contains some of the most quoted passages of the pastoral letters, including "to live is Christ and to…

3 - Chapters 5-6

In Bible (KJV) 27: Daniel

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King James Version


The Book of Daniel is a book in the Hebrew Bible. The book tells of how Daniel, a Judean exile at the court of Nebuchadnezzar II (605 to 562…

COMING EVENTS

In Wives and Daughters

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…

FRUIT-PIECE

In North and South (version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

Creed of Cyprian, of Carthage. A.D. 250

In The Creeds of Christendom

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Saint Cyprian of Carthage


This is based on Philip Schaff's Creeds of Christendom taking only the creeds that he selected, using the translations he supplied where pos…

1 - 4 - Lézardes sous la fondation

In Les Misérables - tome 4

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Victor Hugo


Dans le quatrième volet des Misérables, L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis, l'action se déro…

09 - Le Berger et le Roi

In Fables de La Fontaine, livre 10 (version 2)

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Jean de la Fontaine


Voici le dixième des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et sont lues par des lecteurs de…

bk2_05 - Book the Second - Chapter 05 MERCURY PROMPTING

In Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens


Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

Lucius Atherton

In Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters


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…

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