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50 - William and Mary Marston

In Mary Marston

Read by Josh Bascom


George MacDonald


Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

A College Breakfast Party

In Short Poetry Collection 166

Read by Josh Mitteldorf


George Eliot


This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017.

Chapter V. The Kosher Problem

In With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

Read by Josh Kirsh


John Henry Patterson


From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …

Sarojini Naidu

In Figures of Several Centuries

Read by Josh Kirsh


Arthur Symons


Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

Night Fourth

In The Complaint; or Night Thoughts

Read by Josh Kibbey


Edward Young


A book-length poem, often associated with the Graveyard School of poetry, musing upon life and death. - Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek

The Legend of Jubal

In Short Poetry Collection 163

Read by Josh Mitteldorf


George Eliot


This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George …

A Glance Behind the Curtain

In Short Poetry Collection 164

Read by Josh Mitteldorf


James Russell Lowell


This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017.

How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

Read by Josh Kirsh


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

Poems 23 - 29

In Sandhya, Songs of Twilight

Read by Josh Kibbey


Dhan Gopal Mukerji


Dhan Gopal Mukerji wrote Sandhya, Songs of Twilight while in San Francisco, as a way to support himself and pay for his college education. T…

For Safety

In Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Read by Josh Kibbey


Alexander Berkman


In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Cl…

The Sinking of the Titanic

In The Calendar and Other Verses

Read by Josh Kirsh


Irving Sydney Dix


Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …

John Quincy Adams

In Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Read by Josh Kirsh


Jean S. Remy


Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…

Chapter XIV, part 1

In Principles of Geology

Read by Josh Leach


Charles Lyell


Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a b…

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