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Italy
Read by Helen Z. Ferrara
Rudolph Valentino
In Day Dreams
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…
Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
Read by Katharina Glowalla
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…
A Mona Lisa
Read by Newgatenovelist
Angelina Weld Grimké
In Selected Poems
Angelina Weld Grimké was a poet, playwright and educator. These poems were published between 1923 and 1927. - Summary by Newgatenovel…
Consalvo
Read by Jennifer Woodside
Giacomo Leopardi
In The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin
At the Window
Read by Sonia
D. H. Lawrence
In Amores: Poems
Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collect…
Julie Romain
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Guy de Maupassant
In Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franc…
The Taking of Rome
Read by Melissa Jane
Emily Beesly
In Stories from the History of Rome
Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…
Shebashtian Romagné
Read by czandra
Edmond About
In The Notary's Nose
Ironic and Satirical: A successful Parisian notary, Alfred L’Ambert, is smitten with a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer. After a quarrel, his…
VIII. Sulla in Greece
Read by Mark Harrington
George Philip Baker
In Sulla the Fortunate: The Great Dictator
George P. Baker explores the life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known more commonly as Sulla. Sulla was a Roman general and statesman of …
Prologue to 'The Merchant of Venice'
Read by Sonia
George Murray
In Poems
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…
To the Reader
Read by MaryAnn
Charlotte Elliott
In Hours of Sorrow
Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…
A Saunter through Seville
Read by Esther ben Simonides
Charlotte Maria Tucker
In The Spanish Cavalier
When his father dies, Lucius Lepine goes to Spain as a clerk. His fellow clerk, Don Aguilera, doesn't come to work one day. Lucius is worrie…
The Vision
Read by Nemo
Olive Custance
In The Inn of Dreams
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
The Bells of Venice
Read by Sonia
L.
In The Dark Ages, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poetry by a poet only going by the initial "L.". The poems are veried in tone and subject, set in different pa…
The Renaissance, by Murray Anthony Potter
Read by Rita Boutros
Charles William Eliot
In Lectures on the Harvard Classics
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
THE HISTORY OF BIANCA CAPELLO.
Read by TR Love
Charlotte Lennox
In The Lady's Museum, Volume 1
Published in 11 issues between 1760 and 1761 and believed largely to be written and edited by Charlotte Lennox (it was marketed as “by the A…
Impressions
Read by Newgatenovelist
Pauline B. Barrington
In Selected Poems
Pauline B. Barrington was an American poet and playwright. These poems were published between 1916 and 1918 and take for their inspiration t…