All stories / Page 182 / Audiobooks.club

Humorous Fiction

528

Mark Twain - Awful German Language

If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad , this comedic gem outlines the...

Rainer 1 hour 3 minutes

No comments

Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

Single author

518

Wallace Stevens - Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was vice-president at the Hartford Accident and...

Alan Davis Drake 1 hour 7 minutes

No comments

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

481

Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Anthem for Doomed Youth , by Wilfred Owen, in honor of Veteran’s Day , Remembrance Day , and Armistice Day , 2006. This was the weekly poetry project for...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 15 minutes

No comments

Children's Fiction

488

Robert Williams Wood - How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining!...

9 minutes

No comments

*Non-fiction

504

Thomas Henry Huxley - Has a Frog a Soul?

Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself. This speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1870 is...

16 minutes

No comments

Christianity - Other

495

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux - On Loving God

On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for God, and puts...

Kirsten Ferreri 1 hour 29 minutes

No comments

Poetry

469

Long Poems Collection 003

Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 003: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Catharine Eastman and 5 more 1 hour 13 minutes

No comments

Poetry

596

James Joyce - Chamber Music

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication («All day I...

25 minutes

No comments

Poetry

778

Edna St. Vincent Millay - Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge , by Edna St. Vincent Millay, to celebrate Halloween . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October...

Andrea L and 7 more 22 minutes

No comments

Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

*Non-fiction

545

United States Government - Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

Kristen McQuillin 28 minutes

No comments

*Non-fiction

520

John McTaggart - Unreality of Time

John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the notion of the A, B and C series, which was to become a leading theory in...

49 minutes

No comments

Poetry

661

Vachel Lindsay - Congo

The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations to guide its...

8 minutes

No comments