Leonard Wilson

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Satire

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Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm

Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with...

Leonard Wilson 32 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire», first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. (Summary by Wikipedia) «Of all novelists...

Leonard Wilson and 7 more 20 hours 32 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Friend in Need

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 14 more 16 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Bachelor to a Married Flirt

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

Algy Pug and 8 more 35 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Quarrel

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) — Summary by David Lawrence

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 17 minutes

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Ring Lardner - Visit From Young Gloom

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

aravagarwal and 13 more 19 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solar Eclipse

A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. — Summary by David Lawrence

Austen Woods and 17 more 23 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Where's The Use

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 8 minutes

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Family Life

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Domestic Bliss

This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Sara Teasdale - In A Subway Station

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 16 more 24 minutes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

Algy Pug and 13 more 36 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Driftwood

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 13 more 11 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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