Greg Giordano

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Household Tales

The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three...

Beth Thomas and 39 more 30 hours 18 minutes

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457

James Whitcomb Riley - In A Box

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect....

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Life

The following statement expresses Wilcox's unique blending of New Thought, Spiritualism, and a Theosophical belief in reincarnation: «As we think, act, and live here today, we build the structures of our homes in...

Angi Bridges and 9 more 13 minutes

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Walter Richard Cassels - To My Dream-Love

Walter Richard Cassels is the speculated author of the anonymous work Supernatural Religion. He wrote poetry and was an art collector. Never married, he died in London on 10 June 1907. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 8 more 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

414

Washington Irving - Tales of a Traveller

Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of people he met, places he saw and stories he was told. In fact, much of the work is...

Greg Giordano 12 hours 34 minutes

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450

Archibald Lampman - God-Speed to the Snow

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

Angi Bridges and 13 more 20 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - To The Common Golfer

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 5 more 23 minutes

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Edward Powys Mathers - Bamboo Garden

Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. He is well known as the translator of J. C. Mardrus's French version of One Thousand Nights...

Barbara Anne Scott and 9 more 10 minutes

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George MacDonald - Bedtime

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 13 minutes

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Mystery

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns....

Algy Pug and 10 more 26 minutes

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Windhover

«Windhover» is another name for the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air,...

annie70 and 10 more 17 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Alice Meynell - London Impressions

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Lynn Lee and 5 more 1 hour 23 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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