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Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature
Chapter: 48 | Listen: 4

A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface “These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p. m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper. And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living? In extenuation it may be pleaded that none of them are so long that they may not be mitigated by an accompanying pipe of tobacco.” [chương_files]

Englishman and Other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 52 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of beautiful and evocative poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Budget of Christmas Tales

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Poetry, Short Stories
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 5

This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent feature. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Misrepresentative Men

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Poetry
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 3

This is a volume of poetry by Harry Graham. Graham was known for his satirical poetry, and this volume is a great example of his art. In this volume, Graham charicatures several famous historical or legendary personages, and allows himself some reflections on the story of that person’s life. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

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Poetry
Chapter: 80 | Listen:

This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems about children, but for children. Neither does this mean that they are childish, but rather that they capture the imagination of children both in subject matter and the richness of the lyrical language of the poems themselves. They range through the great classical poets from Milton to Poe, in all of their variety and vigor. What child could not be captivated by Blake’s, The Tiger, or enchanted by Lanier’s Song of the Chattahoochee? Here in these verses, we all are children. -summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Fables of La Fontaine

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Poetry
Chapter: 127 | Listen:

Jean de la Fontaine’s fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition contains 240 fables or fairy tales and a biography of Jean de la Fontaine and Aesop, containing the most well-known fables in existence, as well as some lesser-known fables and stories. Walter Thornbury’s translation furthermore sets the fables into memorable rhymes. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Rose and Roof-Tree

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Poetry
Chapter: 35 | Listen: 3

This is a volume of poetry by American author George Parsons Lathrop. As the dedication reads, “I need give my verse no hint as to whom it sings for. The rose, knowing her own right, makes servitors of the light-rays to carry her color. So every line here shall in some sense breathe of thee, and in its very face bear record of her whom, however unworthily, it seeks to serve and honor.” Rose was the name of his wife. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Songs of Cheer

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Poetry
Chapter: 54 | Listen:

This is a volume of poetry by John Kendrick Bangs. All the poems in this volume share the very positive tone, they discuss happiness, love, and friendship, and can be enjoyed by children as well as adults. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Weeds by the Wall: Verses

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Poetry
Chapter: 93 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of verses by Madison Julius Cawein. This volume contains several poems of the dream-like quality for which Cawein was so famous. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Mine and Thine

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Poetry
Chapter: 79 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of poems by Florence Earle Coates. The poems in this volume describe the Zeitgeist perfectly – not only are they in style in many ways representative for American poetry around the turn of the last century, but moreover, many of the poems are discussing the current events of the time. This volume contains poems on the Cuban War of Independence, the coronation of Edward VII of England, and poems to several politically and culturally prominent persons of the time. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]