Larry Wilson

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Aldous Huxley - Jonah

Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 17 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James Weldon Johnson - Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Algy Pug and 10 more 13 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Shame of Going Back

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often...

Algy Pug and 16 more 36 minutes

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Sports Fiction

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Short Works on Sports Collection 01

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics,...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

«Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their...

BettyB and 10 more 3 hours 36 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Cheer

This is another volume in Ella Wheeler Wilcox's series. This time, the topic is «Cheer». — Summary by Carolin

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Aldous Huxley - Burning Wheel

Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 46 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

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Louis Melius - American Postal Service, Second Edition

The history of the postal service in the United States goes back to the colonial period, but was established more formally with the issuing of postage stamps and regular delivery. Through small vignettes, this history...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 5, November 1898

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Annalyn and 5 more 1 hour 26 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Options

O. Henry needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonderful examples of his word sculpting art. They include: «The Rose of Dixie»; The...

Michele Fry and 8 more 7 hours 14 minutes

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Anthologies

J. Earl Clauson - Dog's Book of Verse

It is not surprising that dogs, beloved by so many, have received many poetic tributes throughout history. Here the author has gathered together short verses celebrating dogs. From the well-known poets to the...

Larry Wilson and 18 more 2 hours 56 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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