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Prophet (version 3)

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 28 | Listen: 3

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran’s best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 108 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print. The prophet, Al Mustafa, has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]

Poems by Edward Thomas

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 2

Born in 1878, Thomas published his first book when he was 18. Having married while still at university, he supported his family by writing articles and books, some in the form of what we might call slow travel writing, compiled on walks throughout England and Wales. He came to poetry late, encouraged by Robert Frost, and wrote 144 poems between 1914, and 1917 when he was killed, two years after enlisting, and shortly after arriving in France. His poetic life coincided with WW1, and though not a war poet, his is the poetry of loss, of life as it would never be again. What is powerful to the English imagination is his depiction of the fragility of the English countryside. This is inseparable from his deep understanding of the longings and regrets of those who would die. Transience and mortality are at the heart of his work. This is true in one of the country’s favourite poems, to be found on this recording: Adlestrop. He is important to other poets in that, at his best, his poetry is quietly, sometimes coldly, conversational, with a slow beat that takes us with him as he thinks through from line to line, and wraps us in his vision of life and the natural world. (Summary by Judith Brennan) [chương_files]

Poems of To-Day: an Anthology

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Poetry
Chapter: 148 | Listen:

This is a book of more modern poetry by various authors. – Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson [chương_files]

Love and Longing

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Poetry
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Philip Max Raskin was a Jewish poet about whose life not much can be found today. His poetry, however, lives on, and some poems are still well-known today. This volume contains a series of love-poems, sometimes conveying hope and happiness, sometimes longing and disappointment. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 195

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Poetry
Chapter: 44 | Listen:

This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2019. [chương_files]

Verses Popular and Humorous

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Poetry
Chapter: 66 | Listen:

This is a volume of humorous poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 198

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Poetry
Chapter: 39 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 39 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2019. [chương_files]

Chant of Mystics, and Other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of poetry by the influential Lebanese American author Ameen Rihani. In these poems, the author playfully introduces the American public of the early 1920’s to the environment in which he grew up, embellishing the poems with folklore and fairy tale romance. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Daddy-Long-Legs

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Epistolary Fiction, Fiction, Literature, Romance, Teen/Young Adult
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 2

Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen year old orphan, faces an uncertain future in the charity home where she has lived all her life. On reaching adulthood, the orphanage can no longer offer shelter to its inmates. Her anxiety leads her into wild speculation when she is summoned to the matron’s office. But a surprise awaits her. One of the visitors, a wealthy Trustee of the orphanage, has offered to fund Jerusha’s college education and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer. The only condition he makes is that he remain anonymous and that she write to him regularly about her progress. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster was first published in 1912. It follows an epistolatory format and traces the story through a series of letters exchanged between the youthful heroine, Jerusha and her mysterious benefactor whom she has privately nicknamed Daddy-Long-Legs based on a brief glimpse she caught of him once. The book is a young girl’s classic coming-of-age tale, a genre that includes the Little Women trilogy, the Katy series and the Anne of Green Gables books. Apart from being a heart-warming story, it also reflects the author’s social concerns and her interest in women’s issues and the suffragette movement. It is in a way a Beauty and the Beast fairy tale that reflects the transformation of the characters and their attitudes towards each other and life. Jean Webster was born in New York into a literary family. Her father, Charles Webster was Mark Twain’s business manager and head of Twain’s […]

Junior Classics Volume 10 Part 1: Poems Old and New

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Poetry
Chapter: 129 | Listen: 4

The order of the poems has been arranged according to age from first through eight grade. The collection of poems in part 1 begins with the simplest nursery rhymes. Grade II begins with The Sleepy Song by Josephine D. Bacon, Grade III begins with Willie Winkle by William Miller. Grade IV begins with John Gilpin by William Cowper. Grades V – VIII are contained in part 2. – Summary by Linette G [chương_files]