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Sunbeams

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George Wilbur Peck


George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, &qu…

Bell Upon Organ

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George MacDonald


George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in t…

Prufrock and Other Observations

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T. S. Eliot


Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song…

The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2)

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Andrew Barton Paterson


The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hard…

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


H. G. Wells


A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…

The Piazza Tales

Read by John Greenman


Herman Melville


A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, "…

Ballads of a Bohemian

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Robert W. Service


Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bo…

Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

Read by Phil Benson


John Gay


John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig t…

Leda

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Aldous Huxley


Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…

Odes and Sonnets

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Clark Ashton Smith


Clark Ashton Smith, nicknamed one of the "big three" of Weird Tales (the famous pulp fiction magazine), was also a romantic-style …

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

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Cal Stewart


A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. (Summary by Philip Martin)

Cornhuskers

Read by Betsie Bush


Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

The Presence of Love

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One

Read by Arthur Krolman


Jonathan Swift


Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…

Milton's Minor Poems

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


John Milton


“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…

The Forest

Read by Sheldon Greaves


Ben Jonson


The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…

Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories

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Walter Alden Dyer


This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

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John Dryden


The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…

Лампада

Read by Mark Chulsky


Georgy Ivanov


"The Lantern" is one of the earlier books of poetry by Georgy Ivanov (1894 - 1958), a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emi…

There's a certain slant of light

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Emily Dickinson


In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence

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