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Understanding

Read by Tomas Peter


Rudolph Valentino


In Day Dreams

Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…

Chapter 3

Read by Kerry Adams


Joseph Grinnell


In Gold Hunting in Alaska

In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…

Professor Pownall's Oversight

Read by Ben Tucker


H. Russell Wakefield


In They Return at Evening

The Author of The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in the preface to one of his books expressed his lively distaste for benevolent ghosts, and …

Chapter 1

Read by Ben Tucker


Ward Moore


In Transient

Governor Alman Lampley makes an unplanned stop in a small town on the way to his destination. Everything looks familiar yet slightly off. He…

Voices

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson


John Richardson Wilkinson


In Canadian Battlefields and Other Poems

Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems is an important historical record of Canadian soldiers participating in wars prior to 1899. - Summar…

The Matrix

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Amy Lowell


In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…

Frank Gill

Read by David Onley


Various


In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

The Sentences

Read by Brize C


Herbert Read


In English Prose Style

Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…

The Laziness of Bernard Shaw

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Clayton Hamilton


In Seen on the Stage

A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…

Philosophy

Read by Rik Ahlberg


Aldous Huxley


In The Burning Wheel

Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …

In This Room

Read by Newgatenovelist


Marion Strobel


In Selected Poems

Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, O…

The Question

Read by Newgatenovelist


Marion Cummings


In Selected Poems

Marion Cummings was an American poet and academic. Born in San Jose, she graduated from the University of California and taught at the Unive…

A Question

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Alan Sullivan


In The White Canoe and Other Verse

This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…

At Rest

Read by Sharon Larsen


Madison Cawein


In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls

A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton

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