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volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010....

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Poetry, Romance, Tragedy

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's Short Poetry Collection 050: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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Poetry

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volunteers bring you 13 recordings of She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth. This was the weekly poem for the week of May 4th, 2008....

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Poetry

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's Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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Poetry

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Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give a touch of active realism to all her writings. In A Spinner in the Sun she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives in solitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour of romance (Summary by Grosset & Dunlap publishers, 1913)...

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Fiction, Romance

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volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Summer Morning by John Clare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9th, 2009.

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Poetry, Nature

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Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, who only wanted her for a model, but even that will not happen. She has been replaced by another woman for the statue of Arachne. Who do the gods see her with? Is it the Greek, or someone else? This work is the last written and published in German by Georg Ebers before he died in 1898. He wrote many novels set it ancient Egypt, which sparked the general interest in and popularity of Egyptology that still thrives today. This book was translated into English also in 1898. (Summary by Ann Boulais)...

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's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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Poetry

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volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 20th, 2009.

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Poetry, Nature

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This is volume 4 of 4. -- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It was not always held in high esteem by other writers (Samuel Johnson responded that, Nothing odd can last), but its bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic novels in English, as well as a forerunner for many modern narrative devices. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Fiction, Literature

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volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Listening by D.H. Lawrence. This was the weekly poetry project for December 28th, 2008.

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Poetry

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A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

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Poetry

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Sammlung von 19 kurzen Werken von Karl May: Die beiden Kulledschi. Eine Orienterzählung aus Ägypten. Veröffentlicht in: Der Gute Kamerad. 5. Jg. Nr. 50. Berlin, Stuttgart (1891). Der Oelprinz. Ein Abenteuer aus den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika. Veröffentlicht in: Frohe Stunden. 2. Jg. Nr. 11. Dresden, Leipzig (1878). Jagd auf wilde Truthühner in Texas. Ein kurzer Aufsatz. Veröffentlicht in: Illustrirte Welt. 38. Jg. Heft 15. Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien (1890). Das Straussenreiten der Somal. Skizze einer Völkerwiese. Veröffentlicht in: Der Gute Kamerad. 4. Jg. Nr. 13. Berlin, Stuttgart (1889). Herbstgedanken. Ein kurzer, bildhafter Aufsatz. Veröffentlicht in: Schacht und Hütte. 1. Jg. Nr. 6. Dresden (1875). Der blinde Bergmann. Ein Gedicht. Veröffentlicht in: Schacht und Hütte. 1. Jg. Nr. 3. Dresden (1875). Eine Seehundsjagd. Ein Abenteuer im Eismeer. Veröffentlich in: Der Gute Kamerad. 5. Jg. Nr. 22. Berlin, Stuttgart (1891). Die Both Shatters. Ein Abenteuer aus dem »wilden Westen von Karl Hohenthal (Pseudonym). Veröffentlicht in: Für alle Welt! 5. Jg. Heft 27. Stuttgart (1882). Inn – nu – woh, der Indianerhäuptling. Ein...

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Fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 41 different recordings of Good Hours by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 9th, 2007.

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Poetry

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In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the second volume, we find stories written by English and Scotch authors. (Summary by Leni)...

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Mystery, Fiction, Spy stories, Short stories

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Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. His lady is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck knight (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appea...

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Adventure, Fiction, Literature

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volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service.

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Poetry

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Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Polish-born English novelist, was a master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story longer than conventional short story but shorter than a novel. Some of Conrad's most acclaimed works have been written in these formats, most notably Heart of Darkness (1899). Tales of Unrest contains five stories; Karain: A Memory (written 1897; read by Jhiu), The Idiots (1896; read by Ann Boulais), An Outpost of Progress (1896; read by Kristine Bekere), The Return (1897; read by Raerity) and The Lagoon (1896; read by David Lazarus). Author's note read by Sibella Denton. (Summary by Illiterati)...

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Short stories, Fiction, Literature

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Poetry

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volunteers bring you 9 recordings of At Broad Ripple by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the fortnightly poetry project for September 6, 2009.

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Poetry, Nature