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In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Pete Darby


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

05 - May

In A Chesterton Calendar

Read by Pete Darby


G. K. Chesterton


Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

Perfect Love, part 1

In Four and Twenty Fairy Tales

Read by Pete Darby


Varioustranslated Byjames Planché


This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty…

Book XI: Agamemnon's day of glory

In The Iliad

Read by Pete Darby


Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Ashton-Kirk, Investigator

Read by Pete Milan


John Thomas Mcintyre


Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, a…

Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent

Read by Pete Milan


John Thomas Mcintyre


Those who have read "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator" will recall references to several affairs in which the United States government fo…

The Necromancers

Read by Dustin Pete


Robert Hugh Benson


Following the death of his fiancée, Laurie Baxter becomes consumed by an obsession with the supernatural. Attempting to reach his dec…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Tithonus - Read by BSD

In Tithonus

Read by Brian Darby


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains on…

Lights - Read by BSD

In Lights

Read by Brian Darby


Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. He…

New Year's Eve - Read by BSD

In New Year's Eve

Read by Brian Darby


Eugene Field


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of New Year's Eve by Eugene Field.This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 27, 2020. -…

Coyote - Read by BSD

In Coyote

Read by Brian Darby


Bret Harte


"He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other…

I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Read by BSD

In I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

Read by Brian Darby


Thomas Moore


Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and …

Summer - Read by BSD

In Summer

Read by Brian Darby


Christina Rossetti


Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing…

In the Autumn Grass - read by BSD

In In the Autumn Grass

Read by Brian Darby


Hamlin Garland


LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is…

Knight And Wamba - Read by BSD

In Knight And Wamba

Read by Brian Darby


Sir Walter Scott


A fun poem with a great rhythm . - Summary by Stav Nisser