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How Peppa Loved Gramigna
In Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
Calla Lily
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
Philomela
In Chills and Fever
This is the second poetry collection of the poet-critic John Crowe Ransom, who was a member of the Fugitives and the Agrarians.
The Kingbird
In Birds, Vol. II, No 4, October 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Chickadee
In Birds, Vol. I, No 5, May 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Chapter VIII: The Beginning of the Reading Time
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
A Ramble in Aphasia
In Short Story Collection Vol. 057
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 057: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.A …
The Stone - Read by RAJ
In The Stone
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in …
Wisteria from “All the Year Round”
In Love Poems by Famous Authors
A collection of love poems, including the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, Tristram & Iseult, and selections from many authors inc…
Italian Books by Sydney Waterlow
In The Blue Review, Number 3
The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…
Pierrot
In Rainbows
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
Introduction
In The Blue Poetry Book
This anthology poetry, gathered by Andrew Lang and originally published in 1891, is read by four voices, Larry Wilson, Ciufi Galeazzi, Lynet…
Selected works by Anatole France
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15
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…
After Reading "An Italian Garden"
In Sonnets and Songs
Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, R…
To Botticelli’s Venus
In The Hoofs of Pegasus
Maria Letitia Stockett was a highly respected English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, but also well-known as an author. In addition to her …
Selected works
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06
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…
Platteklip Cascade
In The Poetry of South Africa
Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…
Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
Chaucer’s Tale of Meliboeus
In The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…
Stara Baśń
In First Chapter Collection 009
The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…