Single Author Collections

Great Chicago Fire

by Charles Cole Hine Read by Maria Kasper 3.8
In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Charles Cole Hine provides a detailed account of the disaster that reshaped a city and i…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

by Robert Bridges Read by Linda Leu 4.2
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…

Night Watches

by W. W. Jacobs Read by Bill Boerst 4
A most popular Jacobs character, a night watchman along the English coast, remembers troubles his friends got into during shore leave. At le…

The Early Poems of Hart Crane

by Hart Crane Read by Winston Tharp 5
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Deal…

The City of Dreadful Night

by James Thomson Read by MoonLylith 4.7
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

Men, Women and Ghosts

by Amy Lowell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Men, Women and Ghosts is a captivating collection of long poems and short stories by the acclaimed poet Amy Lowell. In this anthology, Lowel…

Mother and Daughter

by Augusta Webster Read by Newgatenovelist
Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a…

The Strength of Gideon

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by KirksVoice 3.2
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

by Toru Dutt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Toru Dutt was an Indian poet, writing in English. Born in 1856, she travelled to England and France, and being a polyglot became fluent in F…

The Voices of the Rivers

by Nina Ruth Davis Salaman Read by Newgatenovelist 4
Nina Salaman was a noted scholar, translator and columnist. As well as translating medieval Hebrew poetry, she was a poet in her own right. …

A Lover's Diary

by Gilbert Parker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…

A Slav Soul

by Aleksandr Kuprin Read by Lee Smalley 3.6
Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called hi…

All That Matters

by Edgar A. Guest Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherh…

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

by Andrew Lang Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Arabian Nights Entertainments invites listeners into a mesmerizing world of ancient tales, where magic, adventure, and wisdom intertwine…

Goblins and Pagodas

by John Gould Fletcher Read by Nemo
John Gould Fletcher (1886 – 1950) is considered by many literary scholars to be among the most innovative twentieth-century poets. He enjoye…

Beyond the Stars

by Charles Hanson Towne Read by Nemo 4.3
Charles Hanson Towne was a well known editor, author and poet. He was a popular New York celebrity who was considered by many as being the q…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.8
Explore the haunting and imaginative world of Edgar Allan Poe in this fourth volume of the Raven Edition, featuring 22 of his most intriguin…

Scottish Ghost Stories

by Elliott O'Donnell Read by Sherry Morrow 3.7
A public domain collection of Scottish Ghost tales by Elliott O'Donnell. 1911 - Summary by Sherry Morrow

The Passionate Pilgrim

by William Shakespeare Read by Caliban 4.3
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only i…

A Wine of Wizardry

by George Sterling Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Wine of Wizardry is a captivating collection of poems by George Sterling that delves into the darker aspects of nature and the human exper…

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