Elizabeth Klett

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Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market and Other Poems

Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a creepy and sensual tale of two sisters' temptation to eat forbidden fruits....

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 32 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam A.H.H.

In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poem over 17 years as a chronicle of his mourning process. The poem became a...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 29 minutes

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486

William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)

Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 28 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 26 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Beatrix Potter - Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories

What can we say about the delightful Beatrix Potter stories? Starting with the naughty Peter Rabbit and his mis-adventures, progressing through The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle whose funny name is just the start of the...

Isabelle Brasme and 6 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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494

Long Poems Collection 006

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 006: a collection of 17 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Bridget Rafferty and 13 more 2 hours 16 minutes Long Poems Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 013

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 013: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Juliann and 7 more 2 hours 15 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Poetry

538

Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophil and Stella

Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means «star-lover») for his beloved Stella (whose name...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 14 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius,...

Martin Geeson and 2 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Pádraic Colum - Girl Who Sat by the Ashes

«Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone...»...

Arctura and 3 more 2 hours 6 minutes

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Long Poems Collection 005

Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

David Barnes and 6 more 2 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

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Aemilia Lanyer - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Aemilia Lanyer's 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all women), elegant praises for her female patrons, a catalogue of virtuous women of...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 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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