A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learns that her husband is susceptible to a very peculiar habit. – Summary by Deborah Percy [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been read in a whisper and is perfect for night-time listening in a quiet room. The low volume is intentional! – Summary by Cori Samuel [chương_files]
萩原朔太郎の第４詩集です。文語調自由詩２８編が収録されています。愛憐詩篇の１８編は、作者が自由詩を始めた初期の作品です。郷土望景詩の１０編は作者３０代の時の作品で、前橋の風物を詠じています。口語自由詩を確立した作者の文語自由詩をお楽しみ下さい。The author’s fourth collection of poetry. It includes 28 poems. [chương_files]
One book, twenty-four authors … Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continually passes from one writer’s cliffhanger to another’s resolution. Fenella, with her young son Ronny, is recuperating in a Harrogate hotel, where her flirtatious behaviour has already broken the heart of a fellow guest, a rising barrister. Her feelings at her estrangement from her young husband, who appears to be flaunting his manipulative French mistress to the world, are still running high. Impulsively, she strikes back with an invitation to the French count whose flirtation had fired her husband’s jealousy. The stage is set for a crime in mysterious circumstances, bringing Fenella into a sorrowful womanhood, and changing the lives of those around her forever. Violence, misunderstanding, love, intrigue, kidnapping, disaster … mystery, sensation, social commentary, wit and romance combine across continents as each writer takes up the story. “The publishers claim with no little satisfaction that in this book they offer the reading public a genuine novelty. The idea of a novel written by twenty-four popular writers is certainly an original one. The ladies and gentlemen who have written The Fate of Fenella have done their work quite independently of each other. There has been collaboration but not consultation. As each one wrote a chapter it was passed on to the next, and so on until it reached the hands of Mr. F. Anstey, whose peculiar and delightful humor made him a fitting choice for bringing the story to a […]
２４歳と８ヶ月で亡くなった立原道造の処女詩集です。東京で育ちましたが、自然を愛し、自然と淡い恋心を美しい言葉で語っています。１０本のソネット（１４行詩）を含みます。音の美しさをお楽しみ下さい。 [chương_files]
Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the trouble that arises when Indefer fails to tell anyone his final decision before passing away. ( Summary by Jean Bascom ) [chương_files]
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize. [chương_files]
Faith Hope and Charity …… In the Language of Emerson these translate as: Self – Reliance, Love, and Friendship. (summary by Robert Scott) [chương_files]
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14th, 2013.Helen Coale Crew was an American poet and novelist. Her touching evocation of forgetfulness comes from the Chicago Anthology, published in 1916. Lethe refers to the first river that souls bound for the Elysian Fields, the Heaven of the ancient Greeks, had to cross. Drinking from the river was said to have the effect of expunging all memories. [chương_files]
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