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Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Tom Hood - Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 — 1874). The tales are; The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hop o'...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 33 minutes

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Poetry

518

Poetic Trios

We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Morris, Swinburne and Rossetti. We hope you enjoy listening to them. — Summary...

4 hours 46 minutes

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Edwin Arlington Robinson - Captain Craig: A Book of Poems

This is a volume of narrative poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. — Summary by Carolin

Subhash Chander and 8 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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Single author

504

Sir Walter Scott - Lay of the Last Minstrel

An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the «Flower of Teviot» is beloved by Baron...

Peter Tucker 2 hours 53 minutes

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William Henry Davies - Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the...

Expatriate 8 hours 14 minutes

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Single author

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George Crabbe - Borough

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 was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use...

David Wales 8 hours 34 minutes

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Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence....

13 hours 4 minutes

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich

Arthur Clough provides us with a timeless coming of age story involving a young Englishman studying in Scotland who falls in love. — Summary by Liam Brady

Liam Brady 2 hours 46 minutes

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Romance

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Dante Alighieri - New Life (La vita nuova)

One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the...

Mary J 2 hours 1 minute

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Single author

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Robert Browning - Ring and the Book

«Better translate--»A Roman murder-case: «Position of the entire criminal cause »Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman, «With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay, »Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to...

Tony Oliva 26 hours 7 minutes

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto IV

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to «Ianthe». The poem describes the travels and reflections of a...

Alan Mapstone and 2 more 1 hour 59 minutes

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Sir Walter Scott - Lord of the Isles

In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile by the English and their allies. Bruce returns over sea from the Island of...

Nathan 4 hours 29 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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