27/07/2024
Christmas Short Works Collection 2015
This year’s Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian [chương_files]
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27/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel’s psychology, the Theologia Germanica, Paracelsus, John Donne, Cotton Mather, Julia Smith’s translation of the Bible, Zen Buddhism, American immigrants, slavery, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, and cats. “Cats and Their Care” was edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey. “Looking Backward” was translated by Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum. “The Collector” was translated by Rosalie Gabler. “Thelogia Germanica” was translated by Susanna Winkworth. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Bill & Doreen’s Married Life
“Bill & Doreen’s Married Life (Selections from “Doreen”)” is the sequel to “Bill & Doreen’s Courtship” and “Bill & Doreen Get Hitched”, the latter two being “Selections from ‘The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke’”. “The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke” is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year. A special pocket edition was even printed for the Australian soldiers in the trenches during the Great War. “The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke” tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill’s transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Pearl (Coulton translation)
A companion piece to From Jerusalem to Revelations in the Librivox catalogue (https://librivox.org/jerusalem-to-revelations-a-quartet-of-spiritual-explorations-by-unknown/). Pearl, believed to have been written by the author of the Pagano-Christian beheading tale, Gawain and the Green Knight, enters the vision of a grieving father at his daughter’s graveside that carries him with us into the spirit world in which she finds her dwelling place now, a pure unspotted girl, her father’s pride, now a Pearl of great price and her Saviour’s bride. She chides him, much (as many have noted) Beatrice does Dante in his Divine Comedy with the plain and incontrovertible fact that she now lives in the New Jerusalem in the rapture of eternal bliss, while he is wholly wrapped in his desire to be again with her. The disconnect that must exist between this wholly human feeling, a paternal grief. against the vividly described reality of a spiritual universe that she inhabits now and her perpetual happiness as Bride of the Lamb, makes for much of the quiet humour and gentle pathos of the piece. ( Tony Addison) [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Christmas Eve, and other Poems
This is a collection of poems by C. Maurice Stebbins. The titular poem is a Christmas poem, but it is dark and somber in tone. The following shorter pieces are very varied, making for a beautiful little collection. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Dark Ages, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poetry by a poet only going by the initial “L.”. The poems are veried in tone and subject, set in different parts of the British Isles and Europe. Most of them have a historic background, though set several centuries after the titular “Dark Ages”. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Rio Grande’s Last Race, and Other Verses
This is a collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. This collection contains some of Paterson’s most famous poems, such as Rio Grande’s Last Race, and poems featuring Saltbush Bill. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Introducing Irony
Subtitled ‘A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems’, this collection reads years ahead of its time. Set mainly in Jazz Age New York City, the poems and tales are a series of profiles of people in seedier parts of town, along with bizarre love songs and even a trip to Mars. Not for the easily offended. ( Matt Pierard) [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Path of Dreams
This is a volume of poetry by American poet Leigh Gordon Giltner. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]