Peter Yearsley

171 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Short Long

Poetry

542

George Wharton Edwards - Book of Old English Ballads

In this selection… the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine...

Mike Harris and 13 more 2 hours 34 minutes

No comments

Poetry

452

Short Poetry Collection 178

This is a collection of 44 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2018

VfkaBT and 18 more 2 hours 33 minutes Short Poetry Collections

No comments

Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

Middle Ages/Middle History

404

Edwin Benson - Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, pageantry and punishment. The author has an easy, rhythmic style which...

Peter Yearsley 2 hours 19 minutes

No comments

Poetry

494

Long Poems Collection 006

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 006: a collection of 17 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Bridget Rafferty and 13 more 2 hours 16 minutes Long Poems Collections

No comments

Poetry

497

Lewis Carroll - Rhyme? And Reason?

«I have had nor rhyme nor reason» is inscribed on the cover page of this book. These poems are then also some of the most phantastic poems published by Lewis Carroll, including such famous verses as Phantasmagoria and...

Anusha Iyer and 12 more 2 hours 14 minutes

No comments

Children's Fiction

445

M. R. James - Five Jars

The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently written for children. While he is out walking, the narrator is drawn to a...

Peter Yearsley 2 hours 11 minutes

No comments

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

572

Ambrose Bierce - Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is known...

Peter Yearsley 2 hours 1 minute

No comments

Single author

691

Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poems

This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 1 hour 55 minutes

No comments

Cooking

549

A. W. Bitting - Ketchup

The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the preparation and production of ketchup, primarily from commercial production...

Peter Yearsley 1 hour 54 minutes

No comments

*Non-fiction

513

Charles McRae - Fathers of Biology

An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science...

Availle and 4 more 1 hour 46 minutes

No comments

Poetry

432

Thomas Fleming Day - Songs of Sea and Sail

Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so...

Eva Davis and 8 more 1 hour 41 minutes

No comments

Short Stories

542

Coffee Break Collection 009 - Autumn

This is the ninth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 1 hour 39 minutes Coffee Break Collections

No comments

New

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

Show all