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chapter XIX
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Gertrude Atherton
In The Crystal Cup
The story begins with ... “Old age will be served,” said Mrs. Carteret grimly. “But I suppose you think I am a long time dying.” This author…
SHETLAND WOMEN
Read by Stacey Malcolm
E. E. Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker and Eliot McCormick
In Wonder Stories of Travel
A curiously interesting collection of folkloric tales and firsthand accounts written by global travelers for 19th century periodicals; compi…
I Observe
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
In David Copperfield (version 3)
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
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…
The Ingrate
Read by KirksVoice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
A Valentine
Read by Sonia
Kate Seymour MacLean
In The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems
There is truth, doubtless, in the remark, that we are enriched less by what we have than by what we hope to have. As the poetic art in Canad…
The Beginnings by A.R. Waller
Read by Sonia
Various
In The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance
In the preliminary statement of the aims and objects of this History, communicated to those who were invited to become contributors to it, t…
At the Window
Read by Sonia
D. H. Lawrence
In Amores: Poems
Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collect…
Two Windows - Read by DL
Read by David Lawrence
Kate Seymour MacLean
In Two Windows
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Two Windows by Kate Seymour MacLean.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9, 2021…
Book IX - Cato, part 2
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Lucan
In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…
The Editor and the News
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Will Irwin
In The American Newspaper
The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by Will Irwin from 1909 to 1910 spanning fifteen articles that discuss th…
In Autumn
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In Poems
This is a volume of poems by Alice Meynell. - Summary by Carolin
Note on the Text
Read by Devorah Allen
Thomas Erskine
In The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel
This is a work of theology which addresses a seeming contradiction in Christian thought: that love and forgiveness are freely offered to all…
Reflections 11 and 12
Read by Christine Rottger
John Erskine
In Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences, of the present contentions with the colonies. By a freeholder.
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
Boyd Raeburn and David Allen
Jubilee
In Jubilee
Jubilee ran from 1942 to 1953 and was aimed as a morale-building service for black troops and aired for military personnel. The show was hos…
Cheshire
Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kinnersley
In H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools
Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…
Translation
Read by Inkell
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Hawke
Read by Alan Mapstone
Sir Henry Newbolt
In Admirals All
A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…
XXXVII
Read by Stacey Malcolm
Gertrude Atherton
In Rulers of Kings: A Novel
When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…
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