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Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Leigh Douglass Brackett
In his final adventure on Mars, Eric John Stark acquires a relic of an ancient Martian hero, a gem or lens which is believed to be the key t…
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
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Edmund Spenser
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud f…
Balder Dead (version 2)
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Matthew Arnold
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…
Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode
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Matthew Arnold
A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this…
The Sea Lady (Version 2)
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H. G. Wells
A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive,…
The Master of Ballantrae
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advis…
The Anniversary Poems
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John Donne
Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of th…
Le Paradis Perdu
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John Milton
Comme Virgile a développé l’épopée à célébrer l’origine de sa propre patrie, Milton l’a ada…
The History of Britain
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John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
The Moon Maid
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sabotage accidentally takes Earth's first manned interplanetary expedition to the Moon, where a sublunar adventure ensues, involving two int…
Milton's Minor Poems
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John Milton
“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 3)
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William Blake
The short, simple lines of these delicate poems resemble song lyrics, emphasizing the concrete but hinting at transcendent realities, althou…
John Donne's Satires
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John Donne
Donne’s StyleIn John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology…
Weird Tales, Volume 1
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
These stories form the first volume of the renowned Tales of Hoffman. They are fantasies with hints of the supernatural—quintessential Roman…
Venus and Adonis (Version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …
Selected Poems
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George Herbert
These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …
The Lady of the Shroud
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Bram Stoker
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictiti…
Four Hymns
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Edmund Spenser
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
The Castle of Otranto (Version 2)
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Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation Version 2)
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Jessie Laidlay Weston, Translated Byjessie Laidlay Weston, The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston and The Gawain Poettranslated By Jessie Laidlay Weston
This poem celebrates Christmas by exploring the mystery of Christ's mission on earth: his death, resurrection, and second coming as judge of…