Librivox
2) Today
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Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In 1909, the Ontario Ministry of Education put together a volume of poems and verses for young children. Included was Carlyle's poem "Today." Carlyle is not typically thought of as a poet, and certainly not a children's writer, but his imagination was so wide-ranging, and his output so prodigious that he has published works in an amazing number of genres, styles and formats.
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls, essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory, generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighborhood with those about him, but, in spite of "Fylke Things" (Folk Things, little parish parliaments), and small combinations of these, which had gradually formed themselves, often reduced to the unhappy...
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
This is the third part in Dreiser's series on Hollywood. In every part of the series, he comments on some of the more salacious aspects of Hollywood during the silent era. Dreiser spent large potions of his life in Los Angeles, and often interrupted his fiction writing to work on screenplays, though few of them were ever produced.
6) The Helpmate
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Series
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
It was past midnight. Nikolay Yevgrafitch knew his wife would not be home very soon, not till five o'clock at least. He did not trust her, and when she was long away he could not sleep, was worried, and at the same time he despised his wife, and her bed, and her looking-glass, and her boxes of sweets, and the hyacinths, and the lilies of the valley which were sent her every day by someone or other, and which diffused the sickly fragrance of a florist's...
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
This is a recording of one of Shelley's best known poems. Like many of his works, he uses natural imagery to suggest a particular emotional state. The fleeting nature of lighting, snowflakes and sunbeams are used as metaphors for the transitory nature of life, and the impossibility of reclaiming that which has been lost.
18) On Life
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
This is a reading of one of Shelley's most significant nonfiction works. This piece contains his first definitive rejection of a materialistic philosophy of life.