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Beowulf (version 2)

Read by Tad E.

Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere

Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The m…

Second Book: Poems 63-65

In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language

Read by Tad E.

Francis T. Palgrave

Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…

The Beautiful and Damned

Read by E. Tavano

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gl…

Alexander's Bridge (version 2)

Read by E. Tavano

Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather

Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a m…

Irish Wit and Humor

Read by James E. Carson

Various

Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…