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Part 04
Read by Expatriate
Conrad Aiken
In The House of Dust: A Symphony
The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World …
The Clever Trick
Read by Felipe Vogel
H. A. Guerber
In The Story of the Romans
A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)
Chapters 06, 07
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In The Curious Quest
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …
For Joseph Conrad
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
The Tremolino
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)
"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…
The Spoiler
Read by Tomas Dorrington-Hardin
Edgar A. Guest
In Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
00 - Author's Note
Read by Sibella Denton
Joseph Conrad
In Tales of Unrest
Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime.Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Poli…
From the Window
Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt
Ivor Gurney
In War's Embers
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Tales of Unrest (version 2)
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
Chapter 02a - Wherein Certain Persons Are Presented To The Reader, With Whom He…
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
In Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word…
Song by Walther von der Vogelweide
Read by Gaby
Walther von der Vogelweide
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)
The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
Chapter 38 - Frank Houston is penitent
Read by tabithat
Anthony Trollope
In Ayala's Angel
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
Selected works
Read by Leni
Alfonso the Wise
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
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…
03 - Cooper
Read by Jozef Nagy
John Albert Macy
In The Spirit of American Literature
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …
Chapters 58 through Epilogue
Read by Tom Weiss
Gilbert Parker
In The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of…
Letters
Read by James K. White
Ivor Gurney
In Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
82. The Passing
Read by Michele Fry
Gilbert Parker
In A Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…
"The Rat"
Read by MaryAnn
David Whitelaw
In The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London
A journalist just back from a year covering the simmering, not-yet-revolution in Russia, a dissident (or is he a spy?) with a stolen gem, a …
CHAPTER VI—A PROWLER IN THE DARK
Read by Drew Johnson
Elmer Russell Gregor
In Running Fox
Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…
The Home of the Rat
Read by laurakgibbs
Alphonso Orenzo Stafford
In Animal Fables from the Dark Continent
A. O. Stafford, an African American educator and folklorist, wrote this collection of African and African Diaspora folktales for students in…