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Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)
The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, inc…
Chapter I, Reconstruction and After
Read by Markalanhansen
Various
In Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion
The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …
Hard Times
Read by Michael Fassio
John Lomax
In Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up …
Chapters 1-2
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In One Life, One Love
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…
July 19, 1885 - Notes From the Northwest
Read by Esther
The New York Times
In The Mounties in the News
A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from Augus…
Introduction
Read by KevinS
Arthur Gray Butler
In The Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties
This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates for the reader many of …
Chapter 12 -Ancient History
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E. Nesbit
In Dormant
Dormant is a gothic novel. It begins breezily enough with seven friends starting out in life. Rose, the artist, falls in love with Anthony, …
Preface and Introduction
Read by Iona Muirgel
Jay Henry Mowbray
In Sinking of the "Titanic" : most appalling ocean horror
The Titanic was thought to be the safest ship to set sail as it embarked on its maiden voyage. Unfortunately, history tells us differently. …
Part 2, Chapter 2
Read by Rob Marland
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
In A Lost Lady
The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…
1865-1866
Read by April6090
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…
CHAPTER II - WHAT WAS WRITTEN
Read by Jessie Yun
Sarah Doudney and Sarah Doudney
In A Vanished Hand
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It …
May Day, 1894
Read by Newgatenovelist
William Morris
In Chants for Socialists
As well as being influential in the Arts and Crafts Movement and writing numerous poems and novels, William Morris was deeply involved in po…
Section 1
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William Wilberforce
In An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the Brit…
An impassioned plea by Wilberforce about putting an end to slavery in the West Indies based on his view of the institution as a national dis…
Noon
Read by Bruce Kachuk
John Cunningham
In English Poems
Occasionally a compilation of poetry is conceived in which each poem, as a tribute to its theme or subject or elegant prosody, is one to be …
March, 1878
Read by Newgatenovelist
Constance Naden
In Sonnets
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's…
Abandoned
Read by Foon
Madison Cawein
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
May 25th 1849, by José Mármol
Read by Eric Metzler
José Mármol
In Pan-American Poems: an anthology
In this anthology, Agnes Blake Poor introduces to the American public a collection of Latin American poets in translation. The poems are org…
1620-1920, by Le Baron Russel Briggs
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William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Massachusetts Poets
Poet and editor of many anthologies, William Stanley Braithwaite, gathers a collection of poems from well known and lesser known poets from …
Chapter XXIII
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Mary Wollstonecraft
In Mary: A Fiction
Eliza, Mary's mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself, and favours Mary's brother. She neglects her daughter, w…
The Answer by Sara Teasdale
Read by Nicole Wright
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…