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Sonnets and Poems

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John Masefield

47 poems, most of them sonnets, most on the subjects of beauty and death, touching the mystery just beyond the known. - Summary by Josh Mitt…

The Column of Dust

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Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill, the preeminent scholar of mysticism, wrote 3 novels in her youth, of which this is #3. Constance Tyrrel, a poor but liter…

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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George Eliot

Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and he…

Jim Davis

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John Masefield

The tale of a 12-year-old boy who falls in with smugglers. Jim, an orphan, is sent to live with relatives along the Devon coast. There he ac…

A College Breakfast Party

In Short Poetry Collection 166

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George Eliot

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017.

The Legend of Jubal

In Short Poetry Collection 163

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George Eliot

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George …

A Glance Behind the Curtain

In Short Poetry Collection 164

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James Russell Lowell

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017.

Enquiry Into the Phenomena Called Spiritual (1870-1873)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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William Crookes

"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

De Profundis

In Short Poetry Collection 254

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C. S. Lewis

This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during July 2024.

The Dilemma of Determinism

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077

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William James

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …