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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Will Carleton - Apples Growing

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. «What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer,...

David Lawrence and 11 more 21 minutes

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, «Antigone» has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience....

Expatriate 1 hour 19 minutes

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Tragedy

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Euripides - Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)

Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as «perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written,» «The Trojan Women,» also known as «Troades,» is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC...

Expatriate 1 hour 20 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman

On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a «Committee of Citizens» in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor. This slim collection includes a autobiographical note by Whitman and his response to...

Ed Humpal 3 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Gibbs - Golden Bough

The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of his silent and furtive approach. Two plans of action suggested themselves, one to...

Tony Oliva 12 hours 20 minutes

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Bibles

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Darby Bible - Bible (DBY) NT 06: Romans

The Darby Bible consists of a translation of the New Testament by John Nelson Darby, originally published in 1867, and a translation of the Old Testament, included in later editions of the text, completed by Darby's...

Hultstrand 1 hour 20 minutes Bible (Darby Version)

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound (Thoreau Translation)

Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, «Prometheus Bound» is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces...

Expatriate 59 minutes

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Short Stories

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Cyrus Adler - Told in the Coffee House

In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are usually little more than rooms, with walls made of small panes of glass. The...

Crln Yldz Ksr 3 hours 47 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Sentiment

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the topic is «Sentiment». — Summary by Carolin

Newgatenovelist and 14 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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Poetry

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Julia Caroline Dorr - Afternoon Songs

This is a volume of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr, part 5 of her collected poems. — Summary by Carolin

Domenica Campbell and 12 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Persians (version 2)

The earliest of Aeschylus' plays to survive is «The Persians» (Persai), performed in 472 BC and based on experiences in Aeschylus's own life, specifically the Battle of Salamis. It is unique among surviving Greek...

Expatriate 1 hour 7 minutes

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Single author

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Patrick Brontë - Cottage Poems

Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and teacher, but he also was a poet and a novelist. Cottage Poems, his first published work,...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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