Single Author Collections

Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden

Read by David Wales


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A …

Cincuenta textos escogidos de Quevedo

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Francisco De Quevedo


Quevedo ocupa un lugar destacadísimo en la literatura española y mundial gracias a esa "universalidad castellana del poet…

On the Iron at Big Cloud

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank L. Packard


Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- t…

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Bliss Carman


Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…

South American Jungle Tales

Read by James K. White


Horacio Quiroga


The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Wallace Stevens


A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…

In a North Country Village

Read by Phil Benson


M. E. Francis


M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell fami…

Poems

Read by Eva Davis


Rainer Maria Rilke


A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…

Poems of Passion

Read by Joy Chan


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A collection of love poems. (Summary by Joy Chan)

Psalms of David

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Isaac Watts


Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the Wo…

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

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Aldous Huxley


Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…

John Sherman and Dhoya

Read by David Wales


William Butler Yeats


In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…

The Loot Of Cities

Read by David Wales


Arnold Bennett


Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…

Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

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Leo Tolstoy


Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; s…

The Literary Sense

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E. Nesbit


A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…

Roads of Destiny

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O. Henry


This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid

Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


William Carlos Williams


Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was …

Романтические Цветы, Шатер

Read by Mark Chulsky


Nikolay Gumilyov


Николай Степанович Гумилев (1886 - 1921), русский поэт Серебряного века, создатель школы акмеизма, путешественник, литературный критик. Расс…

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, hor…

The Man Without A Country And Other Tales

Read by David Wales


Edward Everett Hale


Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contri…

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