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On Time
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
In Milton's Minor Poems
“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…
Vignettes
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Preface
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edmund Spenser
In Amoretti and Epithalamion
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…
Part 2
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edmund Spenser
In Four Hymns
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…
Preface
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …
Section 1: Preface
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Robert Herrick
In A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…
Rutherford McDowell
Read by Kirk Thomas
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
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…
Of Education
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A well educated population is the cornerstone of a strong society. On the personal level, education contributes to virtue and self-knowledge…
Elias Thomas
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Words and Music
Read by Matt Braymiller
Thomas Thursday
In Short Story Collection Vol. 060
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories in various genres by authors including Edna Ferber, Charlotte Brontë, Stephan Crane, W. Som…
Introduction
Read by Arie
Charles Swain Thomas
In Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
This book is composed of 24 short stories, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, and is the second collection of "modern sho…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…
Heretics
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…
Washington by James Russell Lowell
Read by Tomas Peter
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…
Sirius
Read by Foon
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Fifty-One Tales
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Lord Dunsany
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagi…
Wakefield
Read by Howard Simmons
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Short Story Collection Vol. 107
We are back with another diverse short story collection. All stories were selected and read by Librivox readers. This collection includes wo…
Silhouettes
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Jerome K. Jerome
In Short Story Collection 111
Here is our 111th Short Story Collection. Once again, our readers have selected a range of stories, touching on a variety of emotions. Sit b…
The Philosopher and the Acorn
Read by NoelBadrian
Jefferys Taylor
In Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …
On Patience
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
John Wesley
In Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …