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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…
The Qwarry
Read by David Wales
Eden Phillpotts
In The Human Boy Again
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…
The Hesperides
Read by Ellies
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…
Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
La Rabbiata, Chapter I
Read by lazygameuse
Paul Heyse
In Four Phases of Love
Paul Heyse was selected as the 1910 Nobel Laureate in Literature in recognition of " ... his long productive career as a lyric poet, dr…
The Story of David
Read by RPBrevard
Julia Darrow Cowles
In The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories
In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of st…
Letter 8 Trades
Read by David Wales
George Crabbe
In The Borough
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
18 - 1.3.VI. Lomenie's Plots.
Read by Lynne T
Thomas Carlyle
In The French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, fir…
A Visit to Benicia
Read by J. A. Taylor
Palmer Cox
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
Aquae Sulis
Read by Sonia
Thomas Hardy
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
Harmonie du Soir
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
Courante Monsieur
Read by Mark Leder
Richard Lovelace
In Lucasta
"Lucasta" is of Latin origin meaning "Pure Light". Besides the dedication of the first poem to his wife, Anne Lovelace, …
Lemoine
Read by Larry Wilson
Marietta Holley
In Poems
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin