Single Author Collections
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
Read by Peter Tucker
William Butler Yeats
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…
Leda
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Aldous Huxley
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Read by Ben Adams
Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the…
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories
Read by David Wales
Walter Alden Dyer
This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)
Gigolo
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edna Ferber
Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…
There's a certain slant of light
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Emily Dickinson
In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence
A Slav Soul and Other Stories
Read by Lee Smalley
Aleksandr Kuprin
Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called hi…
The Forest
Read by Sheldon Greaves
Ben Jonson
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…
Around The Yule Log
Read by David Wales
Willis Boyd Allen
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)
Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History
Read by Phil Benson
Ann Hawkshaw
The history of Britain up to the Norman Conquest in the form of 100 prose commentaries, each followed by a sonnet. The commentaries set the …
Tongues of Conscience
Read by Lisa Reichert
Robert Smythe Hichens
Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific cons…
Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection (from The Spell of the Yukon)
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Robert W. Service
On August 13-15, 2010, A hearty band of Librivox volunteers, led by Bob Ledrew and Sean McGaughey, recorded selections from the Spell of the…
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2)
Read by MichaelMaggs
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was one of the most innovative of English Victorian poets, best known now for his vivid and original image…
The Chronicles of Clovis
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Saki
This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…
Poems
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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. I…
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
Read by Foon
William Blake
"Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "P…
The Dream of Gerontius
Read by Russ Hobbs
John Henry Newman
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kind…
The Borough
Read by David Wales
George Crabbe
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
Tales of Unrest (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
Chimneysmoke
Read by Carmen H
Christopher Morley
A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. (Summary by Carmen H)