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What is Man? and Other Essays

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Literature, Satire
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 5

“What Is Man?”, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position. This collection of short stories covers a wide range of Twain’s interests: the serious, the political and the ironically humorous. [chương_files]

In the Seven Woods

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Poetry
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 5

In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats’s first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats’s great love and muse, to John MacBride. (Summary by Kasper Nijsen) [chương_files]

Snowflakes

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Poetry
Chapter: 34 | Listen: 4

A collection of poems with varying subjects. (Summary by Ann Boulais) [chương_files]

Long Poems Collection 008

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Poetry
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 1

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length. [chương_files]

Nature Near Home and Other Papers

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Nature, Non-fiction
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 5

Nature Near Home is one of many books on natural history by John Burroughs. It is full of simple observations about rural scenes and charming stories about animals, plants, and even people! Burroughs loves the creatures around him and derives great pleasure from his walks and studies in nature’s scenes. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 113

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012. [chương_files]

Treatise of Religion

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Poetry, Religion, Satire
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 2

Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville’s 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocrisy. (Summary by Michael Armenta) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 108

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 114

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2012. [chương_files]

Wild Swans at Coole

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Poetry
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 2

The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the “middle stage” of Yeats’ writing and is concerned with, amongst other themes, Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]