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November
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
In The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…
Prologue
Read by Elin
Violet Jacob
In Flemington (version 2)
Archie Flemington, a spy in Government service during the 1745 Jacobite rising, is sent to investigate the suspected rebel James Logie. Desp…
Gray November
Read by Sonia
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…
Introductory Note
Read by Rob Marland
Katherine Mansfield
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
Introductory Note
Read by Rob Marland
Katherine Mansfield
In The Doves' Nest and Other Stories
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a collection of complete stories and fragments by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The book was publishe…
The Name
Read by Ken Masters
Julia Caroline Dorr
In Earlier Poems
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin
Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton
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…
Chapter IX
Read by Jan Moorehouse
Kate Sanborn
In The Wit of Women
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…
Our Post-Office Box
Read by Kathrine Engan
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 04, Nov. 25, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
25 - Recollections
Read by NoelBadrian
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
In The Undying One and Other Poems
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
Daphne
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two
He lived simply, loved his walks and craved the company of fellow poetical wits as they craved his company in return. With his pal Dr. Sheri…
Chapter 13
Read by jenno
Julian Corbett
In For God And Gold
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent navy historian and geologist. This semi-autobiographical novel tells about the start: the person…
Trees
Read by brianna
Joyce Kilmer
In Short Poetry Collection 178
This is a collection of 44 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2018
Grey Evening
Read by Sonia
D. H. Lawrence
In Amores: Poems
Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collect…
Harry the First
Read by Peter Yearsley
Marietta Holley
In Poems
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin
Forward
Read by mleigh
Margaret Widdemer
In A Tree with a Bird in it
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
Finding
Read by Graham Redman
Rupert Brooke
In The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), …
With Child
Read by Newgatenovelist
Genevieve Taggard
In For Eager Lovers
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1922 and deals with topics such as pe…
Isabel
Read by Eliza Winters
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
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…