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The Spirit of the Border

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Zane Grey


This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

John Keats: Selected Poems

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John Keats


John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

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James Oliver Curwood


Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


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

Orley Farm

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Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

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Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

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William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

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Andrew Lang and Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

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Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Growing Old - Read by LLW

In Growing Old

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Matthew Arnold


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011.Mat…

The Hill - Read by LLW

In The Hill

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Rupert Brooke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner…

Essay on Émile Augier

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03

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Charles Dudley Warner, ed. and Charles Dudley Warner


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…