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Sonnet XIX - 'No More But So?'

In Early Poems

Read by Emily Sullivan


James Russell Lowell


This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

The Whippoorwill

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 1, January 1899

Read by Emily Sullivan


Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

Song of the Broad-Axe, 4th stanza - Read by ES

In Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

Read by Emily Sullivan


Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)

Read by Shannon Sullivan


Sylvia Townsend Warner


Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …

The Crown Conspiracy

Read by Michael J. Sullivan


Michael J. Sullivan


They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly. There's no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, jus…

The Shepherd of the Hills

Read by Emily Jarmard


Harold Bell Wright


The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills…

The City of Fire

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


Home from college, Lynn is heartbroken to find her childhood friend Mark, has fallen away from his faith in God. After making some poor life…

Not Under The Law

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


After both of Joyce's parents passed away, her beloved aunt raised her. But when her aunt gets sick and dies, Joyce's world turns upside dow…

Lucretia Borgia

Read by Emily Maynard


Ferdinand Gregorovius


According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this beca…

Bulbs and Blossoms

Read by Emily Isabella


Amy Le Feuvre


Two young children, recently arrived back in England from India, discover their aunt's old gardener, and together they explore the beautiful…

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


Emily Kathleen Cooke


November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


Emily Kathleen Cooke


November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…

Icarus; or, The Future of Science

Read by S. Emily Lee


Bertrand Russell


In this short book, Russell speculates on the effect of the progress of science in the future in a vast array of subjects, ranging from phys…

01 - Part I, Section I: Chapters I - III

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

Read by Nikki Sullivan


Adam Smith


"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of other…

XX - Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

Read by Nikki Sullivan


Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Polly's Big Bundle

In Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Version 2)

Read by Natalie Sullivan


Margaret Sidney


The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poo…

21 - Book II, Chapter 07: Of Political or Civil Society

In Two Treatises of Civil Government

Read by Nikki Sullivan


John Locke


The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a…

57 - Book 9 Chapter 4 - The Second Ordeal

In The Brothers Karamazov

Read by Nikki Sullivan


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …

Book 2 (The Hired Girls), Chapter 7

In My Ántonia

Read by Nikki Sullivan


Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…