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Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Wallace Stevens
In Harmonium
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…
The Queen's Page
Read by Larry Wilson
Evaleen Stein
In Child Songs of Cheer
This is a little volume of children's poetry by Indiana poet Evaleen Stein. The poems in this volume concern really anything that could be f…
The Letters
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
Sydney-Side
Read by Ellies
Henry Lawson
In Verses Popular and Humorous
This is a volume of humorous poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. - Summary by Carolin
Deliver Me from Eva
Read by Ben Tucker
Paul Bailey
When a frequently published writer of historical novels lays a masterpiece of uninhibited, spine-chilling horror on a publisher's desk, the …
Chapter XIX
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
Free Will
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Dusk
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
For Children's Gaiters
Read by Erica Sims
Cornelia Mee
In Exercises in Knitting
Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain prac…
LUI ET ELLE
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
D. H. Lawrence
In Tortoises
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the la…
09 - Queen Mab
Read by Sibella Denton
Ida Coe and Alice Christie, Ida Coe, Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon and Ida Coe And Alice Christie Dillon
In Story Hour Readers: Third Year
Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…
Lila Nichols
Read by Mari Patterson
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Trickery
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
In The Ghost Beyond the Gate
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only da…
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Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…
Chapter XV: Suspicions
Read by Ben Tucker
Margery Williams
In The Thing in the Woods
Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a supers…
The Unrevealed
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…
Schools and Literature
Read by Laura Caldwell
Eva March Tappan
In When Knights Were Bold
This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictur…
The Flight of Alexis
Read by Esther
Jacob Abbott
In Peter the Great
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russia…
The Other Side
Read by Ellies
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…