Peter Tucker

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Poetry

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Thomas Hood - Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

This is a collection of Thomas Hood's poems. Hood was an eminent British poet, regarded in particular for his humorous poetry, as well as his weird and fantastic poems. As William Michael Rossetti writes in his...

emceejohnnyg and 23 more 19 hours 28 minutes

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Travel Fiction

484

Pierre Loti - Madame Chrysantheme

Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different national and cultural milieux, in which he deeply immersed himself. The present...

Peter Tucker 5 hours 4 minutes

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Poetry

440

William Morris - Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

This is a volume of early narrative poems by William Morris, first published in 1858. While at the time of writing the most important stages of William Morris' career are still ahead of him, his ideas are already...

Peter Tucker and 4 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Ballads

472

Sir Walter Scott - Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott. Unlike its predecessor, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, this one contains...

Peter Tucker 4 hours 17 minutes

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Poetry

476

Henry Kendall - Poems and Songs

Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his—Adam Lindsay...

Sylvester Lan and 8 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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Historical Fiction

501

Émile Zola - Fortune of the Rougons

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In his introduction Zola indicates that...

Peter Tucker 13 hours 14 minutes

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Single author

439

John Dryden - Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many quite long and elaborate, reflect the poet's role in contemporary society,...

Peter Tucker 7 hours 39 minutes

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Poetry

444

Short Poetry Collection 149

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015.

Winston Tharp and 15 more 1 hour 11 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Science Fiction

442

Cyrano de Bergerac - Voyage to the Moon

This is an edition by Professor Curtis Page of the Lovell translation of a seminal work of science fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac. Arguably a whimsical forerunner to the adventure stories of Jules Verne, and the French...

Peter Tucker 3 hours 48 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Odes and Carmen Saeculare

Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—«aere perennius»—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride, the reserve, the tragic playfulness, the epicurean calm, the absolute distinction of...

KHand and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Single author

448

Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems

A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. — Summary by Peter Tucker

Peter Tucker 46 minutes

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Single author

495

Sir Walter Scott - Lay of the Last Minstrel

An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the «Flower of Teviot» is beloved by Baron...

Peter Tucker 2 hours 53 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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