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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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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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Poetry

476

Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Casey at the Bat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote...

Astrid Fingerhut and 11 more 49 minutes

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Poetry

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Talhaiarn - Men of Harlech

LibriVox readers present 7 versions of «Men of Harlech» by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012. «Men of Harlech» or «The March of the Men of Harlech» is a song and military...

Cynthia Moyer and 6 more 13 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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Sir Walter Scott - Bridal of Triermain

Scott's The Bridal of Triermain is a rhymed, romantic, narrative poem which weaves together elements of popular English legend using dramatic themes. This beautiful poem celebrates the exploits of a knight errant...

Nathan 2 hours 3 minutes

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Island

Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the mutineers as they flee to a South Sea island, «their guilt-won Paradise.»...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 18 minutes

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Poetry

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Alexander Pope - Rape of the Lock

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under...

Rhonda Federman 58 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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