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World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)
The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world,...
6 hours 25 minutes
Romance
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Harriet Theresa Comstock - Place Beyond The Winds
Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call «the in-place, the place beyond the winds». There are so many traditions, so many things to be proud of, yet Priscilla is different. She dreams...
9 hours 13 minutes
Children's Fiction
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Fairy Prince and Other Stories
A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. «It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh,...
4 hours 27 minutes
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Robert W. Service - Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. His poems «The Shooting of Dan McGrew» and «The Cremation of Sam McGee» helped...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and...
2 hours 52 minutes
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