Single Author Collections
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden
Read by David Wales
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A …
On the Iron at Big Cloud
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank L. Packard
Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- t…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Bliss Carman
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…
South American Jungle Tales
Read by James K. White
Horacio Quiroga
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Wallace Stevens
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…
Psalms of David
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Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the Wo…
In a North Country Village
Read by Phil Benson
M. E. Francis
M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell fami…
Poems
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…
The Loot Of Cities
Read by David Wales
Arnold Bennett
Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…
Zigzags of Treachery and other stories
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wi…
Poems of Passion
Read by Joy Chan
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A collection of love poems. (Summary by Joy Chan)
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi
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Leo Tolstoy
Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; s…
Novelas y Cuentos (Version 2)
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Edgar Allan Poe
Compilación de algunos de los más famosos y celebrados cuentos del gran Edgar Allan Poe. Referencia obligada para los amantes …
John Sherman and Dhoya
Read by David Wales
William Butler Yeats
In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, a…
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
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Aldous Huxley
Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…
Романтические Цветы, Шатер
Read by Mark Chulsky
Nikolay Gumilyov
Николай Степанович Гумилев (1886 - 1921), русский поэт Серебряного века, создатель школы акмеизма, путешественник, литературный критик. Расс…
Roads of Destiny
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O. Henry
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
The Literary Sense
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E. Nesbit
A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…
Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
William Carlos Williams
Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was …