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Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 3)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


William Blake


The short, simple lines of these delicate poems resemble song lyrics, emphasizing the concrete but hinting at transcendent realities, althou…

Twilight Sleep

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edith Wharton


Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…

Pijpelijntjes

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Jacob Israël De Haan


Joop en Sam wonen samen bij Juffrouw Meks in de Amsterdamse volksbuurt de Pijp.De vroeg-20ste-eeuwse, impressionistische roman Pijpelijntjes…

John Donne's Satires

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


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…

Gevleugelde Daden

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Herman Heijermans, Jr.


Het boek Gevleugelde Daden van Herman Heijermans Jr. werd uitgegeven in 1911 (sommige bronnen zeggen 1908) onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkl…

Venus and Adonis (Version 2)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


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, …

Van Aardappel-mes tot Officiersdegen

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Melis Stoke


Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog was Nederland neutraal, maar het dreigende oorlogsgeweld in de ons omringende landen kwam heel dichtbij. In m…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 13 (Supplem…

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of myth…

The Radium Pool

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edward Earl Repp


Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…

Een Kerstlied in Proza (A Christmas Carol)

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Charles Dickens


'A Christmas Carol' is een Victoriaanse allegorie over een oude en verbitterde vrek, Ebenezer Scrooge, die in de nacht voor Kerstmis een aan…

Selected Poems

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


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 Master Mind of Mars (Version 3)

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who…

De Kinderen van Kapitein Grant

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Jules Verne


Een fles spoelt aan bij Schotland met daarin een zwaar gehavend bericht van Kapitein Grant die schipbreuk heeft geleden. Een Schotse Lord en…

Four Hymns

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


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…

Back to Methuselah

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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

The Age of Reason (version 3)

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Thomas Paine


In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…

Uit de schooljaren van Hans Doncker

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Fred. Berens


Hans Doncker vertelt over zijn jeugd, zijn school en zijn familie en vrienden. Een mooie inkijk in het dagelijkse leven van rond 1910. - Int…

Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

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François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

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