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Ellis Parker Butler - Whale

His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 17 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Conversion

Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated «the grand passion»—love. A few of those are of...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 40 minutes

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Ghosts of Night

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett published her first novel, Out of the Depths in 1879. In 1896, she won a $600 prize from the Chicago Times-Herald for her poem «Spring»....

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 34 minutes

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407

Theodosia Garrison - Old Boats

There is little information on Theodosia Garrison available. This poem is taken from The Dreamers and Other Poems, George H. Doran Company, 1917. (David Lawrence)

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 10 minutes

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W. S. Gilbert - Usher's Charge

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 10 minutes

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Lola Ridge - Fog

Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences,...

Autumn Kent and 14 more 12 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Summer's Ending

Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St...

Adriana Ibtisam and 14 more 20 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

488

E. Pauline Johnson - Erie Waters

«Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her...

annanneass and 9 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 168

This is a collection of 40 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2017.

Nemo and 16 more 1 hour 11 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Will Carleton - Goin' Home To-Day

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. «What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer,...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 24 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

497

Eliza Fenwick - Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock

This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few...

April6090 and 8 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Geraldine Edith Mitton - Jane Austen and Her Times

This is a lively and highly accessible overview of the life and times of one of England's most beloved authors. Using excerpts from a wide variety of sources, such as Austen's own personal correspondence and the works...

Twinkle and 8 more 10 hours 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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