Poetry
461
John Kendrick Bangs - Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - August
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month...
25 minutes
Poetry
472
John Kendrick Bangs - Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - July
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month...
24 minutes
Early Modern
469
Agnes Arber - Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals — books widely used in early modern Europe to catalogue the uses of different kinds of plants. While Herbals often reflected...
5 hours 25 minutes
General Fiction
572
Forrest Reid - Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoerotic desire. A classic of “Uranian” literature, it tells the story of Graham...
2 hours 47 minutes