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Four Hymns

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

Back to Methuselah

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

Amoretti and Epithalamion

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

The Defense of Poesy

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Sonnets

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

Astrophel and Stella

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Robert Marshall Allen


Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

The Wishing Horse of Oz

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Ruth Plumly Thompson


Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…

Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


World English Bible


Paul's letter to the Philippians contains some of the most quoted passages of the pastoral letters, including "to live is Christ and to…

1 - 4 - Lézardes sous la fondation

In Les Misérables - tome 4

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Victor Hugo


Dans le quatrième volet des Misérables, L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis, l'action se déro…

09 - Le Berger et le Roi

In Fables de La Fontaine, livre 10 (version 2)

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Jean de la Fontaine


Voici le dixième des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et sont lues par des lecteurs de…

The Manciple’s Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by Thomas Hoover


Geoffrey Chaucer


The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

The Dog and the Hides

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250)

Read by Thomas Bernthal


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

bk2_05 - Book the Second - Chapter 05 MERCURY PROMPTING

In Our Mutual Friend

Read by Kirk Thomas


Charles Dickens


Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

John Horace Burleson

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Kirk Thomas


Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

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