26/07/2024
1891 Collection
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. [chương_files]
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26/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor, philosophy, nature and baseball. [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. As much of her other poetry, this volume also succeeds in connecting a modern style of poetry with deep emotion and themes of Irish mythology. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Negro Problem
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as “racial uplift ideology.” These and other similar narratives of the time were a reaction to the gradual erosion of the African-American’s civil rights across the United States that began during Reconstruction. [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 173
This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017. [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures–Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers–Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers–Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders–Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents–the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history–the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures–the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper’s tips for watermelons and cantaloupes. [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Sonnets of Shakespeare’s Ghost
This is a collection of sonnets in the Shakespearean style written by Thomas George Tucker as Gregory Thornton. As the author prefaces his volume: “The Spirit of William Shakespeare, sore vexed of them who say that in his Sonnets he writ not from the truth of his heart but from the toyings of his brain, and that he devised but a feigned object to fit a feigned affection, herein maketh answer, renewing as best a shadow may that rhyme wherein he was more excellent in the living body.” – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women’s rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky’s blue-grass region, and wintry weather. [chương_files]
26/07/2024
Wheels – The First Cycle
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, the poets represented in the series include Nancy Cunard, whose family founded the Cunard shipping line, Aldous Huxley and Wilferd Owen, as well as a number of more obscure writers. – Summary by Algy Pug [chương_files]
26/07/2024
By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies
This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]