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This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US poets. (Summary by BellonaTimes) ...

Glenn Hammond Curtiss, of Hammondsport, New York, won the Scientific American Trophy for the first pre-announced and officially witnessed airplane flight in North America when he flew his plane, the June Bug, 5,080 ft on July 4, 1908. In 1910, he was awarded permanent possession ...

This is the 98th edition of Librivox Short Stories. Each story is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. The french author Guy de Maupassant and the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore feature strongly in this selection....

This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2021....

[quote]Here we present another diverse collection of short stories. We bring you classics such as Romeo and Juliet and Volodya, a little bit of mystery with The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace and a twist with The Unexpected. All selections are chosen and read by Librivox volun...

Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. The poem is taken from her book, The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse. (Summary from Wi...

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 016: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011.The popularity of the celebrated translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzger...

Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling ...

A collection of short stories, originally written in German, but here translated into English. The stories take us to Egypt and the shadow of Vesuvius, as well as the German homeland. We look into the world of books and that of music and we delve into the depths of the human hear...

This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'."The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a ...