Single Author Collections
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
Read by Peter Tucker
John Dryden
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…
Meet Mr. Mulliner
Read by James Hutchisson
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson
Cornhuskers
Read by Betsie Bush
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.
Leda
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Aldous Huxley
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
Read by Peter Tucker
William Butler Yeats
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Read by Ben Adams
Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the…
There's a certain slant of light
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Emily Dickinson
In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence
Hoof and Claw
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
These 14 short stories about animals are superb examples of Roberts smooth storytelling style. Knows as the Father of Canadian Poetry, he lo…
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories
Read by David Wales
Walter Alden Dyer
This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)
The Forest
Read by Sheldon Greaves
Ben Jonson
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…
A Slav Soul and Other Stories
Read by Lee Smalley
Aleksandr Kuprin
Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called hi…
Gigolo
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edna Ferber
Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…
Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History
Read by Phil Benson
Ann Hawkshaw
The history of Britain up to the Norman Conquest in the form of 100 prose commentaries, each followed by a sonnet. The commentaries set the …
Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection (from The Spell of the Yukon)
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Robert W. Service
On August 13-15, 2010, A hearty band of Librivox volunteers, led by Bob Ledrew and Sean McGaughey, recorded selections from the Spell of the…
The Queen of the Seven Swords
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “…
Tongues of Conscience
Read by Lisa Reichert
Robert Smythe Hichens
Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific cons…
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
Read by Foon
William Blake
"Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "P…
The Borough
Read by David Wales
George Crabbe
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2)
Read by MichaelMaggs
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was one of the most innovative of English Victorian poets, best known now for his vivid and original image…
Chimneysmoke
Read by Carmen H
Christopher Morley
A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. (Summary by Carmen H)