This was the weekly poetry project for 14 May 2006. Spring’s flowers come and go all too quickly, but Wordsworth’s classic poem reminds us that their...
This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here, the epon...
Belye Nochi ”White Nights” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In this small story (though author states this is a sentimental novel) author describes in his tradi...
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a sophisticated novell with extremely hard to comprehend philosophical ideas lying on the border of par...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 different recordings of Drinking Alone by Moonlight by Li Bai in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. This was the weekly...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of The House on the Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This was the weekly poetry project for the...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of When Stars Are in the Quiet Sky by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. This was the weekly poetry project f...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for t...
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt..." So beginnt...
“The Aged Stranger” is a poem by Bret Harte, a prominent figure in American Western literature. It tells the story of an elderly man who has lived a l...
This collection of poems by Robert Browning explores themes of nostalgia, patriotism, and the search for home. Through vivid imagery and emotionally e...
'A Wasted Student' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Sack, an early expressionist writer. It follows Erich, a science student who grapples w...
Solitude is a collection of sixteen poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that explore the themes of solitude, isolation, sadness, grief, loneliness, hope, ins...
Malte Laurids Brigge, a young Danish poet, arrives in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. As he wanders the city, he records his observations and r...
Charlotte Mew's *The Farmer's Bride* is a collection of poems exploring themes of loneliness, isolation, and the complexities of human relationships,...
A deeply personal and moving poem, 'A Letter to Her Husband (Absent Upon Public Employment)' is considered one of the most important works by Anne Bra...
Robert Frost's "Birches" is a poignant poem that explores the complex emotions of human experience through the imagery of birch trees. The speaker, c...
Annie Elfrida McLane, a young girl living on the South Dakota prairie, finds her world filled with solitude. With no other children around, she finds...
A collection of poems by Robert W. Service, "To the Man of the High North" captures the spirit of the Yukon gold rush and the rugged beauty of the Can...
In "Mann im Nebel," Randers, a young man grappling with a sense of displacement and existential angst, searches for his place in the world. His journe...
The book is a collection of five stories told by visitors to a hermit named Mopes. Each story deals with a different problem that the visitor has face...
Charles Baudelaire's 'L'Albatros' is a poignant poem that explores themes of isolation, artistic sensitivity, and the burden of creative genius. The p...
A Bird in a Gilded Cage is a popular sentimental ballad that explores themes of longing, imprisonment, and the desire for freedom. Originally publishe...
In the desolate and unforgiving reaches of northern Canada, Sergeant Billy MacVeigh and his partner Pelliter are the lone representatives of the Canad...
