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Canada's Word
Read by Pam Castille
Ralph Connor
In Princess Mary's Gift Book
In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors o…
Work
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Norman Macleod
In Good Words: 1870
Good Words was an English monthly magazine directed at evangelicals and nonconformists, particularly of the lower middle classes. It contain…
Lesson 10
Read by InTheDesert
Philip Doddridge
In The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse
The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Alba…
30: The pipe
Read by Peter Dann
Herman Melville
In Moby Dick; or, The Whale (version 2)
This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to a…
The Penitent
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Anne Brontë
In Complete Poems
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…
The Stag in the Ox-Stall
Read by Mark Dykshoorn
Aesop
In Fables of Aesop and Others
The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that we may regar…
The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard
Read by Leanne Yau
Clinton Scollard
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
Antony Villa
Read by Arrowhead Aussie
Henry Lawson
In Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2)
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earli…
QUEBEC 1759
Read by Robin Cotter
William Wood
In Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm
Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in…
Preface by O.B. Frothingham
Read by rodgrover
Giacomo Leopardi
In The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin
Chapt 2, Part I
Read by Ted Lienhart
John Hanning Speke
In What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
Pierrot
Read by Newgatenovelist
Adelaide Crapsey
In Verse
Adelaide Crapsey's experimental poetry included her creation of the cinquain. This recording was taken from the posthumously published and e…
By The Quay
Read by Alan Mapstone
Roderic Quinn
In Poems
Roderic Quinn, the seventh child of Irish immigrants, was variously a teacher, public servant and newspaper editor before turning to the wri…
Chapter 33
Read by Brian Keenan
E. M. Forster
In Howards End (version 3)
Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era.…
To My Pipe
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alan Sullivan
In The White Canoe and Other Verse
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…
Prologue
Read by Phil Surette
George Bernard Shaw
In Androcles and the Lion (Version 2)
Androcles and the Lion satirical play written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw. It is set in Ancient Rome, and on the surface it appears to be…
The Streamlet
Read by Sonia
Théophile Gautier and George Murray
In Poems
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…
Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of "The Flowre and the Le…
Read by Bruce Kachuk
John Keats
In The Sonnets of John Keats
The superb poetic skill and exquisite sensitivity of John Keats is brilliantly illustrated in this collection of meticulously selected sonne…
The Pipes of the North by E. Sutton
Read by Alan Mapstone
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
A Pause
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Christina Rossetti
In Sonnets
This is an excellent selection of introspective, inspirational and remarkably compelling sonnets from one of the greatest poets of the ninet…