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A Yorkshire Tragedy: Not So New as Lamentable and True (1619) tells the gruesome tale of Walter Calverly who stabbed his wife and killed his two young sons in April 1605. This recording is based on the text of the second quarto, which was attributed to William Shakespeare ...

This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the human costs of war, both the victims of the battlefield and thos...

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected collection of short stories, origin...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A Grammar of the Persian Langu...

In celebration of Canada Day, 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of O Canada!. If you prefer English or French, spoken or sung, you will find a version that suits you here! This was the ...

William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and...

Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish nationalist, a passion which may be seen in her writing. Poems is a collection of her poetic works. (Summary by Julian Pratley)...

A Lost Race novel set unusually in the eastern USA, where a civilization made up of descendants of early American pioneers has established an arcadian, monarchical Utopia supported by advanced Technology....

LibriVox volunteers bring you __ recordings of Uselessness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 29, 2020. ------ Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Last of the Hackdrivers by Damon Runyon. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 15, 2020. ------ Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for his short storie...

The Copper-Clad World: Blaine awakes to find himself deep inside Jupiter’s 5th moon Io. Creatures of Vibration: Space vagabonds meet the vibration maddened people of Saturn’s satellite Titan. Vulcan's Workshop Luke Fenton gets sentenced to 6 months ...

Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1923 and deals with topics such as personal relationships, nature, and mythology. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...