Thomas A. Copeland

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Antiquity

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John Milton - History of Britain

A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE and of THE MORTE D'ARTHUR, for Milton employs a style that might be called...

Thomas A. Copeland 11 hours 58 minutes

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Poetry

358

Short Poetry Collection 154

This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016.

Shakira Searle and 17 more 1 hour 36 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Single author

656

Clark Ashton Smith - Ebony and Crystal

As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, «Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-registers, Freudian complexes and Binet-Simon tests, for realms of exalted and...

Mike Pelton and 14 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Elegies & Odes

404

John Donne - Anniversary Poems

Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of the created universe. In «An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary,» he...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

371

Robert Louis Stevenson - Master of Ballantrae

Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His...

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

403

H. G. Wells - Sea Lady (Version 2)

A mermaid contrives to have herself «rescued from drowning» and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive, which she conceals for quite a while, is to win the heart of a handsome but...

Thomas A. Copeland 4 hours 35 minutes

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Epics

416

Matthew Arnold - Balder Dead (version 2)

The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

350

Leigh Douglass Brackett - Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3)

In his final adventure on Mars, Eric John Stark acquires a relic of an ancient Martian hero, a gem or lens which is believed to be the key to the strength of Kushat, the city that guards the Gates of Death in the...

Thomas A. Copeland 2 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

339

Short Poetry Collection 151

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

Winston Tharp and 10 more 2 hours Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

409

John Milton - Paradise Lost (version 2)

As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of...

Thomas A. Copeland 10 hours 59 minutes

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Romance

364

George MacDonald - Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)

An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just with evil, strife, and terror but also with loss, failure, sacrifice, and...

Thomas A. Copeland 7 hours 37 minutes

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Poetry

365

Short Poetry Collection 138

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014.

Shakira Searle and 13 more 1 hour 5 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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