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Four Hymns

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

Back to Methuselah

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

The Age of Reason (version 3)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Thomas Paine


In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

The Defense of Poesy

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Amoretti and Epithalamion

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Sonnets

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

The Shadow Flies

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Rose Macaulay


The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…

Astrophel and Stella

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Robert Marshall Allen


Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

The Wishing Horse of Oz

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Ruth Plumly Thompson


Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…

Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


World English Bible


Paul's letter to the Philippians contains some of the most quoted passages of the pastoral letters, including "to live is Christ and to…

A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

1 - 4 - Lézardes sous la fondation

In Les Misérables - tome 4

Read by Thomas


Victor Hugo


Dans le quatrième volet des Misérables, L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis, l'action se déro…

09 - Le Berger et le Roi

In Fables de La Fontaine, livre 10 (version 2)

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Jean de la Fontaine


Voici le dixième des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et sont lues par des lecteurs de…

Chicago's Awful Theater Horror, Chapter One

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

Read by Eberle Thomas


Rescuers and Survivors


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

40 - THE LAST STRAW

In The Sunny Side

Read by Eberle Thomas


A. A. Milne


The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…

36 - Six Hundred and Thirty-fifth Night to Six Hundred and Thirty-sixth Night

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

Read by Rebecca Thomas


Richard Francis Burton and Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

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