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Amoretti and Epithalamion
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edmund Spenser
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…
Absalom and Achitophel
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John Dryden
John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by …
Orlando Furioso
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Ludovico Ariosto
Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and o…
Monsieur Beaucaire
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Booth Tarkington
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…
The Man in the Moone
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Francis Godwin
A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with…
Jerusalem Delivered
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Torquato Tasso
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stori…
A Princess of Mars (Version 3)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a …
Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie
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Thomas Lodge
This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high…
Fifty-One Tales
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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…
Hero and Leander (version 2)
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Christopher Marlowe
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyran…
The Gods of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…
Paradise Regain'd (version 2)
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John Milton
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
The Warlord of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the la…
Areopagitica (Version 2)
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John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
The Faerie Queene Version 2
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Edmund Spenser
Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illu…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)
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Mary Shelley
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter's son, Carthoris, falls in love with his father's true friend, Thuvia of Ptarth, but she has been promised to another and is kid…
The Chessmen of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. Thes…
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)
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George MacDonald
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just…
Paradise Lost (version 2)
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John Milton
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…