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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…
Altogether Different
In Princess Mary's Gift Book
In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors o…
Preface
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Selected works
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 10
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Commentaries
In Poems of Conformity
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …
Biographical note on Thomas Campbell
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Selected excerpts by Gustave Droz
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Introduction
In Poems We All Love
This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but w…
Dirge
In Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. "…
Out of My Turbulent Days
In Sea-change
Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summa…
Addresses, Part 2
In Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman
On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a "Committee of Citizens" in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor.…
Viewpoint
In Short Science Fiction Collection 015
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
Life's Single Standard
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
The Answer By Harry Stillwell Edwards (Second Prize)
In Short Stories From Life
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…
Glengarriff by Sir Aubrey De Vere
In The Book of Irish Poetry, part I
Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This…
07 The Second Best
In The Literary Sense
The Literary Sense is a captivating collection of short stories by E. Nesbit, a master storyteller known for her ability to weave adventure …
Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
Books by John Higgins
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
A World Is Born
In Short Story Collection Vol. 017
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 017: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.
In Memoriam
In The Poetry of South Africa
Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…