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Blake
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and Marianne Moore
In Poetry Miscellany 01
As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…
In Arcady
Read by Alan Mapstone
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
Reading a Letter
Read by Bruce Kachuk
D. H. Lawrence
In New Poems
This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…
The Second Comfort Of Whoring - Answer'd
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Unknown
In Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict
This is the tenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…
To Sir Reginald Talbot
Read by George Banfield
John Buchan
In Poems
John Buchan was a Scottish writer, poet and diplomat who became Governer General of Canada. Best known for his novels (The Thirty-Nine Steps…
CHAPTER XI: A VOICE FROM THE GALLERY
Read by Mark Nelson
Clarence Edward Mulford
In The Orphan
Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious …
Angela by William Schwenk Gilbert
Read by Lynne T
Hubert Crackanthorpe
In Victorian Short Stories: Tales of Courtship
A selection of five short stories with the theme of courtship, written during the Victorian era and previously published elsewhere. - Summar…
To Mr Appleton
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
In Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)
This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…
Invocation
Read by Andree-Ann Granger
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
Monsieur du Miroir
Read by Bob Neufeld
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Mosses From An Old Manse
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…
Fragment
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Anne Brontë
In Complete Poems
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…
Chapters 58 through Epilogue
Read by Tom Weiss
Gilbert Parker
In The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of…
Rheims
Read by Bruce Kachuk
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
A Letter From a Young Lady, A Tour Through Wales, and A Tale
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
In Jane Austen's Juvenilia
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…
Chapter V. Preparations
Read by Belinda Mc
G. A. Henty
In The Boy Knight: A Tale Of The Crusades
Follow young Cuthbert on his adventures which lead him on a crusade to the Holy Land and back. - Summary by Sonia
The Familie
Read by Sheridan Alistair
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Her Great Dicovery
Read by Dawn Larsen
Roy J. Snell
In A Ticket to Adventure
Starting a new homestead in Alaska is filled with adventures. A stolen herd of Reindeer, a great dogsled race, a strange phantom dog, fun ai…
Villanelle of the Players
Read by Alan Mapstone
Joyce Kilmer
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Lethe
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…
Chapter III
Read by Zoe F.W. Lyons
Edward Bellamy
In Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
Henry Burr's fiance, Madeline, is seduced by another man. The guilt and painful memories she has as a result cause him to refer her to Dr. H…