Single Author Collections
Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
A Few Figs from Thistles
A Few Figs from Thistles is a captivating collection of 23 poems by the renowned poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, published in 1922. This work …
The Hotel D'Angleterre
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…
Selections from Longfellow
These are twelve magnificent poems that convey the brilliant talent of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at its best. These are poems that speak of…
Holy Sonnets
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are a meditation on faith, loss, doubt and divine mercy. This recording uses the sequence of 19 sonnets as edited …
A Thief in the Night
A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was …
Heart of Spring
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
What Men Live By and Other Tales
This is a collection of 4 stories by Leo Tolstoy, all dealing with the question asked in the title of the first story: What Does Man Live By…
The Diwan
Zeb-un-Nissa was a poet and Mughal princess. This collection includes 50 of her compositions and a dedicatory poem by the translator and was…
Selected Works
Selected Works presents a collection of poetry by Voltairine De Cleyre, a prominent American anarchist and a multifaceted writer known for h…
Beggars on Horseback
This is a book containing 8 short stories, written in English. - Summary by ADR
A Wine of Wizardry
A Wine of Wizardry is a captivating collection of poems by George Sterling that delves into the darker aspects of nature and the human exper…
Songs of the Outlands
A poetry collection. The poem "Out There Somewhere" was extensively quoted in and was the basis for Edgar Rice Burroughs' story &q…
The Lilt of Life
Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused o…
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin
Jonah
Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of…
Italian Life and Legends
A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…
At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…