Single Author Collections
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)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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…
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…
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…
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 …
The Chronicles of Clovis
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Saki
This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…
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)
Poems
Read by Newgatenovelist
Mary Coleridge
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously me…
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories
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Katherine Mansfield
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a collection of complete stories and fragments by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The book was publishe…
Poems
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. I…
The Dream of Gerontius
Read by Russ Hobbs
John Henry Newman
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kind…
Tales of Unrest (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
Dreams
Read by NoelBadrian
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earli…
The Fable of the Bees
Read by Matthew Muñoz
Bernard Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and d…
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2
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Wallace Stevens
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil…
The Blue Flower
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Henry van Dyke
"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of …
The Gardener
Read by Phil Schempf
Rabindranath Tagore
Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the s…
Around The Yule Log
Read by David Wales
Willis Boyd Allen
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)
A Shropshire Lad (version 2)
Read by Jon Sindell
A. E. Housman
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …