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Letter to Lord Chesterfield

Read by Michael Dalling


Samuel Johnson


In Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose

A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…

Proem

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 …

The Brook

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


In The Brook - Break, Break, Break - Sweet and Low - and The Eagle

This is Tennyson at his best. This is Tennyson, the master poet at his most descriptive, his most insightful, his most enlightening. This se…

In The Study

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Thomas Hardy


In Short Poetry Collection 138

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014.

A Hero's Decision

Read by LaurieB


Thomas Frederick Young


In Canada and Other Poems

From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…

The Alarm

Read by Libby Gohn


Thomas Hardy


In Wessex Poems

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn

The Glorious Fourth

Read by Alan Mapstone


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…

An Elegy Written in Richmond

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Duncan M. Matheson


In Poems

Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adver…

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…

Chapter 13

Read by phineas2000


Christopher Morley


In Where the Blue Begins

In his collection Plum Pudding, Christopher Morley included two pieces about an unprepossessing mutt named “Haphazard Gissing I” with a gift…

Harriet Bruce, by Mrs. Child

Read by Jim Locke


Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith


In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 02

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

From The Editor Recommends, The Bookman

Read by Phil Benson


Various


In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …

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