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Ring Lardner - Visit From Young Gloom

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

aravagarwal and 13 more 19 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Henry Lawson - Scots Of The Riverina

This poem tells the story of a boy in Australia who leaves the farm at harvest time. «and to run from home was a crime.» The story is set in the Riverina, New South Wales in the town of Gundagai. ( David Lawrence)

Algy Pug and 12 more 28 minutes

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Short Stories

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Anton Chekhov - Chorus Girl and Other Stories

Volume 8 of a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The selection includes The Chorus Girl, A Gentleman Friend and A father, among others. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Ben Lafferty and 6 more 8 hours 42 minutes

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To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

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Adelaide Crapsey - To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

Her death was tragic. Full of the desire of life she yet was forced to go, leaving her work all unfinished. Her last year was spent in exile at Saranac Lake. From her window she looked down on the graveyard —...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 48 minutes

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Walter De la Mare - Listeners

This year's Hollowe'en offering is an eerie tale by Walter de La Mare. ( David Lawrence )

Amy Gramour and 11 more 25 minutes

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Edith M. Thomas - ''Frost To-Night''

Edith Matilda Thomas (August 12, 1854 – September 13, 1925) was an American poet who «was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city.» This poem taken from the The Little Book...

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Michael Field - Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Underneath the Bough, A Book of Verses by Michael Field. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Archibald Lampman - Refuge

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

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George MacDonald - Autumn's Gold

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a...

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 5, May 1901

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 2 hours 8 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Theodore Hook - On Punning

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first...

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Griffith Alexander - Life

«What is life?» we ask. «Just one darned thing after another,» the cynic replies. Yes, a multiplicity of forces and interests, and each of them, even the disagreeable, may be of real help to us. It's good for a dog,...

Algy Pug and 11 more 24 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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