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The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

As the Shifting Sands of the Desert

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

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Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

Edgar Allan Poe, Part 1, An Appreciation

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

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Unknown


"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

Wingfold and Barbara

In There and Back

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George MacDonald


An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …