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Read by Bruce Pirie


Charles Blanc


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05

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…

An Undergraduate's Aunt by F. Anstey

Read by Gilles G. Le Blanc


F. Anstey


In International Short Stories Volume 2: English Stories

The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of th…

Introduction

Read by Gilles G. Le Blanc


Sarojini Naidu


In The Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life…

Blanchelys

Read by Larry Wilson


Victor Daley


In Wine and Roses

"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…

From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Read by Sonia


Percy Bysshe Shelley


In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)

The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…

Mont Blanc

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Percy Bysshe Shelley


In Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Madame Baptiste

Read by James K. White


Guy de Maupassant


In The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories

This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.

Madame Baptiste

Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)


Guy de Maupassant


In Short Story Collection Vol. 097

We return with the 97th Librivox Short Story Collection, with twenty chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. This collection features s…

France

Read by dc


Harry Graham


In Verse and Worse

A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…

Faut de Mieux

Read by Tomas Peter


Dorothy Parker


In Enough Rope

A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…

French Books: Recent French Novels by X. Marcel Boulestin

Read by Phil Benson


Various


In The Blue Review, Number 2

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…

JEAN FRANCOIS

Read by Ulrike Denis


Maurice Baring


In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…

76. Benedictus

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…

Le Coq Francais

Read by czandra


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…

The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Read by Sonia


Various


In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)

The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…

Le Chevalier Malheur

Read by Alan Mapstone


John Gray


In Silverpoints

Silverpoints is the first collection of poems by John Gray. Some saw Gray as a protégé of Oscar Wilde, who agreed to underwrit…

At the French Exhibition

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Anstey


In Voces Populi

F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…

Morgan Le Fay

Read by Alan Mapstone


Madison Cawein


In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls

A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton