Single Author Collections
A Psalm Of Life
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Feb…
A Wine of Wizardry
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George Sterling
A dark and moody collection of poems, influenced by the author's experience of nature, rather than an idealized notion of it. "The uncr…
Encounters
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Elizabeth Bowen
Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…
Violets And Other Tales
Read by James K. White
Alice Dunbar Nelson
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…
Men, Women and Ghosts
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Amy Lowell
This is a collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell. - Summary by Carolin
Day Dreams
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Rudolph Valentino
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…
Italian Life and Legends
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…
Æsop in Rhyme
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Jefferys Taylor
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …
Fables for the Frivolous
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…
The Early Poems of Hart Crane
Read by Winston Tharp
Hart Crane
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Deal…
Men I'm Not Married To
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was a poet, writer and satirist of the foibles of the early 20th century (not least, of Prohibition), and a founding member o…
The Reign of King Oberon
Read by Bryn Roberts
Walter Jerrold
In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells …
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
In Flanders Fields
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John Mccrae
John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.The poem which gives this collection…
Selected Poems
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
George Herbert
These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …
A Spring Harvest
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Geoffrey Bache Smith
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
Not That it Matters
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…
Rock Me to Sleep
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Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen
Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen was an American author, journalist and poet. - Summary by Wikipedia
The Human Boy And The War
Read by David Wales
Eden Phillpotts
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fic…
The Strength of Gideon
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…