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May 28, 2023 37 American Poems
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work.
⁠Contemplations⁠⁠ by Anne Bradstreet⁠

⁠To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North- Carolina⁠⁠Phillis Wheatley⁠

⁠The Star-Spangled Banner By ⁠⁠Francis Scott Key⁠
Home, Sweet Home By John Howard Payne
The Wild Honeysuckle By Philip Freneau
Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant
The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seed-Time and Harvest By John Greenleaf Whittier
The Snow-Storm By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Vain By Emily Dickinson
Woodman, Spare that Tree! By George Pope Morris
Spring By Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
Lenore By Edgar Allan Poe
The Mocking-Bird By Sidney Lanier
The Path that Leads to Home By Edgar A. Guest
March into Virginia, Ending in the first Manassas (July, 1861) By Herman Melville
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand By Walt Whitman
May By Helen Hunt Jackson
Sweeney Among the Nightingales By T. S. Eliot
A Late Walk By Robert Frost
Sheltered Garden By Hilda Doolittle
Pauline Barrett By Edgar Lee Masters
Springfield Magical By Vachel Lindsay
Five Sonnets By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Manhattan By Lola Ridge
Ships that Pass in the Night By Paul Laurence Dunbar
O Black and Unknown Bards By James Weldon Johnson
The Heart of a Woman By Georgia Douglas Johnson
Translation By Anne Spencer
Queen Anne's Lace By William Carlos Williams
Wild Peaches By Elinor Wylie
Spring Night By Sara Teasdale
Mourn Not the Dead By Ralph Chaplin
Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley By Ezra Pound
Reformers: A Hymn of Hate By Dorothy Parker
Lilacs By Amy Lowell
Tetelestai By Conrad Aiken
1 hr 31 min
May 27, 2023 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.
Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
37 min
May 25, 2023 Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Castle" both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her wonderful "History of England" and a "Collection of Letters" and lastly a chapter containing "Scraps".
In these offerings, we may see the beginnings of Miss Austen's literary style. We may also discern traces of characters that we encounter in her later works. G. K. Chesterton in his preface, for example, says of a passage in Love and Freindship; "... is there not the foreshadowing of another and more famous father; and do we not hear for a moment, in the rustic cottage by the Uske, the unmistakable voice of Mr. Bennet?" These works are certainly worth exploring for their own sakes and not simply as historical relics. - Summary by Noel Badrian
4 hr 30 min
May 23, 2023 Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
"This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, Written by the Celebrated Smith" —Condorcet's Life of Turgot
A. R. J. Turgot (1727-81), one of the greatest thinkers of the century of the Enlightenment, is known to political historians as a pioneer of the doctrine of universal progress, which he first put forward when a student at the Sorbonne in a lecture on The Successive Advances of the Human Mind. He is also well known to economists as the author of Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth, in which he anticipated - and in some respects surpassed - the theoretical system of classical political economy. In this volume, translations of these two works are printed together with a lesser-known work entitled On Universal History, which should be of great interest to sociologists. Professor Meek has prefaced his own translations of the three texts with an introduction in which he analyses the interesting interrelationship between Turgot's political, economic and sociological theories.
2 hr 47 min
May 22, 2023 Emma (Version 5)
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised without sufficient discipline or occupation. Handsome, clever and rich, Emma is the epitome of what a young woman should be in Regency England, except for the fact that her indulgent father and lack of a mother have left her spoiled and used to getting her own way. Emma's only true critic and voice of reason is Mr. Knightley, a gentleman whose opinion she values greatly. She delights in meddling in the romantic affairs of everyone around her, thinking celibacy is a privilege she alone can enjoy by virtue of her social standing. In the end, Emma is forced to acknowledge both her own lack of insight into the motives of others, and admit her need for a companion who can challenge her to become a better woman. (Summary by Moira Fogarty)
16 hr 45 min
May 20, 2023 Bible Passages Collection 001
Librivox's Bible Passages Collection 001: a collection of passages, verses, and chapters from multiple editions of the Holy Bible. -
Genesis 1 (KJV)
Genesis 2 (KJV)
Numbers 31 (KJV)
Deuteronomy 13 (KJV)
Judges 11 (KJV)
1 Samuel 15 (KJV)
Psalm 19 (UKJV)
Psalm 23 (KJV)
Psalm 46 (UKJV)
Psalm 51 (UKJV)
Psalm 103 (UKJV)
Proverbs 3 (KJV)
Isaiah 53 (KJV)
Matthew 1 (DRV)
Matthew 5 (OEB)
Matthew 6 (OEB)
Matthew 7 (OEB)
Mark 1 (KJV)
John 14 (KJV)
Acts 2 (KJV)
Hebrews 7 (KJV)
James 1 (Leipzig 1746)
Jude (ERV)

2 hr 13 min
May 17, 2023 War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)
Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852 - 1935)
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its surface, float swiftly by logs and stumps, cakes of ice, perhaps drowned cattle or men from regions far above. These floating straws, insignificant in themselves, tell the current. Once embark upon it, and it is impossible to escape the onward force that moves you so relentlessly. What landscapes you pass through, what populous towns, what gruesome defiles, what rapids, what cataracts! The water may be turbid, or it may flow translucent and pure, – but still it rushes on. Such to me is “War and Peace.”
“War and Peace,” like all of Count Tolstoi’s works, is a mighty protest against war. There is no arguing in it about the waste, and the demoralization, and the cruelty, and the unmanliness of it, but, like all Russian argument, it is by vivid pictures such as no one can resist.
The present translation has been made from the original Russian. Tolstoi has been felicitously called “the Russian Rembrandt.” It is not fair to reproduce Rembrandt as a Teniers. One may be sometimes tempted to substitute the curved line of beauty for the straight line of duty, or soften a harsh silhouette, but beyond certain unavoidable issues of the sort necessary for reproducing the impression given by the original, the translator ought to be as faithful as possible. Here the old law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, repudiated by Count Tolstoi, ought to have a new application. (from the Preface by N.H. Dole)
15 hr 3 min
May 11, 2023 Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Translated by Thomas Common (1850 - 1919)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), is a work composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as "the deepest ever written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.
12 hr 41 min
May 10, 2023 Persuasion
Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of her significantly younger cousin. Anne is now faced with a choice: will she watch Captain Wentworth settle into life with another woman, or will she strive to win back his love and escape her family?
8 hr 32 min
May 09, 2023 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Version 5)
The story that started it all, and inspired plays, movies, and more. Young Dorothy Gale is whisked away to a magical land, meets wonderful friends, and has several adventures.
Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger.
2 hr 42 min

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