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La Lecture, tome 5
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Remarkable Remarks
Read by MaryAnn
Various
In The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2
Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form.A most co…
Preface
Read by Larry Wilson
Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
In 1000 Things Worth Knowing
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…
Chapter IV: The Critics. Part 1
Read by Roohi
Clement Shorter
In Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
preface part 2
Read by KevinS
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
In Kopal-Kundala
A story of love and innocence, by one of India's most loved novelist/ poets of the 20th century, the mentor of Rabindrath Tagore. (Summary b…
Introduction
Read by KevinS
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…
CLASSIFICATION Part 2
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
In London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.This vo…
Preface
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
In Our Little Jewish Cousin
In whatever direction you may travel,—north, south, east, or west,—you will doubtless meet some of your little black-eyed Jewish cousins. Th…
Two Ways of Putting It
Read by jlenardon
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
Preface
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In Twilight Stories
A collection of broad-ranging, mostly American stories and poems for children by various authors, including Margaret Sidney, Susan Coolidge,…
Preface
Read by Lynne T
Richard Wilson
In The Russian Storybook
Reverend Richard Wilson went to the heart of Russia to find stories from the eastern outposts of Christianity, untouched by the renaissance …
La Lecture, tome 1
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Preface
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
In The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
16 I Try Literature
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
In The Type-Writer Girl
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Unsigned Review, The English Review
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 …
The Art of Fiction
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Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
Conclusion by H. P. McKnight
Read by Inkell
Various
In Prison Poetry
A collection of poetry written in the late 1800's by inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. - Summary by mleigh
London
Read by Steve C
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Preface, by George Sterling
Read by Mike Pelton
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-…
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor
Read by Craig Franklin
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…