Peter Tucker

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King James Version

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 2)

Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A grand sweep of ecclesiastical argument brings Job to a new level of insight and...

Peter Tucker 1 hour 56 minutes Bible (King James Version)

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Single author

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William Butler Yeats - Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)

A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his...

Peter Tucker 1 hour 11 minutes

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Poetry

430

Leigh Hunt - Story of Rimini

A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. Published in 1816 and dedicated to Lord Byron, it is considered the pinnacle...

Peter Tucker 1 hour 25 minutes

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Single author

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James Elroy Flecker - Forty-Two Poems

This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. — Summary by Carolin

Ian King and 19 more 1 hour 26 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 135

This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2014.

Shakira Searle and 6 more 26 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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John Keats - Poems 1817

Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, especially Spenser, into whose chivalric world he boldly ventures; and also for...

Peter Tucker 1 hour 39 minutes

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Single author

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Dante Alighieri - Canzoniere

Le Rime (in English, The Rhymes) are the collection of lyric poems written by Dante Alighieri throughout his life. While the rest of Dante's works were prepared by himself for publication, these poems were written by...

Algy Pug and 11 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 148

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015.

Shakira Searle and 11 more 52 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 147

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2015.

Ian King and 11 more 47 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Short Poetry Collection 145

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2015.

Kevin Siegel and 16 more 1 hour 24 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Giacomo Leopardi - Essays and Dialogues

«We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent...

Mary J and 8 more 7 hours 54 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 127

This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2013.

Algy Pug and 12 more 52 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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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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