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John Donne's Satires

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


John Donne


Donne’s StyleIn John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology…

The Master Mind of Mars (Version 3)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edgar Rice Burroughs


The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who…

Venus and Adonis (Version 2)

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William Shakespeare


Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …

The Radium Pool

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edward Earl Repp


Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…

Selected Poems

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


George Herbert


These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …

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…

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…

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

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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

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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…

The World of Unicellular

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Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

Infinity Machine

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


Sally's job as UN Space Commissioner gets quite interesting when a ship full of time-displaced people is discovered in the Atlantic. This a…

Splashdown

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


Sally's life on Earth becomes boring when she turns to politics, but not for long. As UN space commissioner, Sally finds herself presiding …

Marker Stone

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


There’s trouble on CMC-6 and it’s been brewing for a long time. The golden age of space travel and asteroid mining has ended almost before …

Homesick

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


The mission to New Ontario, is not going as planned. The first landing ends in disaster when the American astronaut, Scott Anderson, goes d…

Web of Life

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


Sally Buds had scarcely arrived on Earth before she is called back into service. She is, of course, Earth’s only real expert on the evil Ma…

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