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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