29/07/2024
Short Stories and Poems for Children, Original and Select
A collection of short stories and poems for children, filled with sweet but simple life lessons. – Summary by Campbell Schelp [chương_files]
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29/07/2024
Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting story in verse for children
This is the story of an intelligent, upright and generous rooster named Chanticleer. We follow his life from birth to death in this story written in verse. The story recounts his adventures during his childhood, his studies and his travels. He becomes a father and grandfather and tries to impart his wisdom to the next generation. – Summary by SweetHome [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Golden Day
LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of A Golden Day by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 31, 2019. —— A delightful little poem describing what it feels like to greet a sunny spring day and let the rest of your cares slide away. – Summary by Michele Fry [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Something New for my Little Friends
This is a collection of stories in verse for children. Published in 1866 by an author only known by the initials F.F., these poems teach children the virtues, their duties, and what happens to ill-behaving little boys and girls. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 204
This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2020. [chương_files]
29/07/2024
New York Nocturnes, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poetry by Canadian poet and prose writer Sir Charles G.D. Roberts. This volume starts with a series of poems on New York City, and then includes some other poems on miscellaneous subjects. The poems of the “Father of Canadian Poetry” will be enjoyed by all modern listeners who are fans of New York. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Joyous Days Then and Now
This is a volume of poetry by newspaperman-poet Harry Lee Marriner, published in 1910. Many of the poems are on the joyous days then, reflecting on childhood and the simpler times, with a measure of nostalgia and pathos, which the author uses to advantage for his poetry. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Sonata de estío
Sonata de estío es la segunda de las cuatro sonatas escritas por Valle Inclán. Publicada por primera vez en 1903. Continúa la narración de los amoríos del marqués de Bradomín. Esta vez en un viaje a México donde conoce a la niña “Chole”. – Summary by Montse González. [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Sonnets from the Patagonian: The Street of Little Hotels
Sonnets from The Patagonian is a collection of sonnets and the first work published by the short-lived Claire Marie press. Each sonnet is a portrait of someone Evans knows from the Modernist scene just beginning to coalesce in Greenwich Village, and each portrait is dedicated to a completely different acquaintance. (Evans’s portraits of his friend Allen Norton are dedicated to the critic Carl Van Vechten, for instance, and his portraits of himself are dedicated to Allen Norton. His portrait of Carl Van Vechten is dedicated to Gertrude Stein.) What emerges is a clever, irreverent, set of early Modernist in-jokes that look forward to the Dadaist and Surrealist movements that would form in Europe after World War I. Giddy, bizarre and deftly constructed, Sonnets from the Patagonian read like nothing else of its time. Evans owned and managed the Claire Marie press and during the year it existed, he published only six titles, including Tender Buttons by Getrude Stein. It is for Tender Buttons that Claire Marie and Donald Evans are best remembered, if they are remembered at all. While it lasted, the press exerted an outsized influence on the world of Modernist art and literature in New York. Evans was an associate of Stein, Van Vechten, Mabel Luhan Dodge, Walter Conrad Arensberg and Wallace Stevens. He published three more books before his death in 1921, allegedly by suicide. Summary by Wes Freeman. [chương_files]
29/07/2024
Stars of the Desert
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This collection, her second, was originally published in 1903. – Summary by Newgatenovelist [chương_files]