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Bible (Wycliffe) 21: Ecclesiastes

Read by Martin Geeson


Wycliffe Bible and Wycliffe Bibletranslated Byjohn Wycliffe


“... an alemaunde tre schal floure, a locuste schal be maad fat, and capparis schal be distried; for a man schal go in to the hous of his eu…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

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Laurence Sterne


After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …

The Soul of Man

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Oscar Wilde


“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”Published originally …

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

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Frank Harris


Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…

The Greek View of Life

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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson


“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

Hero and Leander

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Christopher Marlowe


“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality

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Stuart Mason


“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…

Against The Grain, or Against Nature

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Joris-Karl Huysmans


“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult no…

The Dancing Mania

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Justus Hecker


Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…

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In The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

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Immanuel Kant


The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Meta…

Gaberbocchus (translation of Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll) (Macaronic Latin)

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 020

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Hassard H. Dodgson, translating Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll and Hassard H. Dodgson


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. …

Upon His Mistress Dancing - Read by MG

In Upon His Mistress Dancing

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James Shirley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Upon His Mistress Dancing by James Shirley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January, 1…

The Fine Old English Gentleman, from The Complete Poems

In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2

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Charles Dickens


This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…

Quatrain - Read by MG

In Quatrain

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Omar Khayyam, translated by Sir William Jones and Omar Khayyám


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.This…

Introversion

In Short Poetry Collection 105

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Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) and Evelyn Underhill


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012.

Appeal - Read by MG

In Appeal

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Anne Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Appeal by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 5, 2012.Appeal ap…

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