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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a prominent representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their mimetic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to that of his contemporaries. (summary from...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Dream by Thomas Frederick Young This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 26, 2025. ------ Thomas Frederick Young was a Canadian poet. In the Preface to CANADA AND OTHER POEMS BY T. F. YOUNG. (1887) he writes "Pedantic critics may find fault with my modest productions, and perhaps justly, in regard to grammatical construction, and mechanical arrangement, but I shall be satisfied, if the public discern a vein of true poetry glittering here and there through what I have just written." Our Halloween Fortnightly follows a common theme in ...

This is a volume of poetry by Rosa Muholland. The poetry in this volume is varied, some read like fairy tales, some have a slightly sinister aspect. All poems share the very skillful execution of the verses, and the beauty of the images they evoke. - Summary by Carolin

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Even people who claim to hate Shakespearean comedy have to admit that they love A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The original play is already naturally divided into three realms: the mortal world, the faerie realm and the play within the play, thus it presents the perfect opportunity to double and triple cast the same actors. So it was really only a matter of time till somebody came up with the crazy idea to stage the whole thing with only three people. Those crazy people are Tony Addison, John Burlinson and Sonia. The outcome of their collaboration is a 3 hour tour-de-force full of surprises: ...

This is a volume of poetry by Lilian Whiting. As the title of the volume already hints at, the poems share a dreamy atmosphere, and in that are a typical example of American poetry of the end of the 19th century. - Summary by Carolin

This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text and starring Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, and Sarah Woodward.

This is a volume of poetry by American poet Leigh Gordon Giltner. - Summary by Carolin

This is a volume of poetry by Hannah Flagg Gould. Ms Gould was an immensely popular author of children's poetry during her lifetime, and her poems will still be enjoyed by children as well as adults today. - Summary by Carolin

Around the World in Eighty Days is one of Jules Verne's most famous adventure novels and a timeless classic of world literature. First published in 1873, the story follows the remarkable journey of Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and disciplined English gentleman who accepts an extraordinary wager: he must travel around the world in just eighty days.Accompanied by his loyal servant Passepartout, Fogg embarks on a thrilling race against time that takes him across continents, oceans, and cultures. From the bustling streets of London to the exotic landscapes of India, Hong Kong, Japan, and America, every...

Olive Schreiner, a pioneering South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape, emerged as one of the earliest advocates for womens rights. Fiercely critical of British Imperialism, she opposed its racist policies toward the Boers, Jews, Indians, and the Black communities of South Africa. Her outspoken support for the Boers led to the burning of her manuscripts and home during the Anglo-Boer War, as well as her internment in a concentration camp for several years. Schreiners debut novel, The Story of an African Farm, published in 1883, became an ...

This innovative study explores how Latino cultural production shapes and challenges the U.S. national imaginary through transcultural exchanges and border-crossing narratives. The audiobook examines the circulation of Latino dreams, aspirations, and cultural expressions across linguistic, geographic, and ideological boundaries, analyzing how these movements disrupt monolithic conceptions of American identity.

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.

The Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as The Story of the Stone, stands as one of Chinas Four Great Classical Novels and is often hailed as the most remarkable among them. With nearly 40 principal characters and around 500 supporting figures, the narrative intricately weaves the fortunes of the Chia family. At the heart of the tale is Chia Pao-yü, the intelligent yet carefree heir apparent. The familys wealth escalates when Pao-yüs older sister becomes an imperial consort, leading to the creation of a magnificent garden that serves as the backdrop for much of the story. The intricate ...

The Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as The Story of the Stone, stands as one of Chinas Four Great Classical Novels—and many consider it the pinnacle of the genre. Within its pages, almost 40 main characters and around 500 minor figures weave a rich tapestry of the Chia familys fortunes. At the heart of the story is Chia Pao-yü, the intelligent yet carefree heir, whose life takes a dramatic turn as his elder sister becomes an imperial consort. This pivotal moment sets the stage for a lush garden, the backdrop for much of the unfolding drama. The complex relationships between Pao-yü, ...

A world devastated by a Great War, a large part of it, turned into an irradiated wasteland, but also breaking open the sky into a northern lights kaleidoscope that brought a system, abilities, stages of power and oh yes, demons. It was called the Dream. It also brought an advancement that melded magic and tech and the Lanterns, a trained force to keep the demons in check....

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor characters tell the fortunes of the Chia family; the book details mainly the life of Chia Pao-yü, the heir apparent, who is described as very intelligent, but also as carefree and self-indulging. The already wealthy Chia family rises to new heights when Pao-yü's elder sister becomes an imperial consort. On her first visit home, a lush garden is built, where much of the rest of the story ...

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor characters tell the fortunes of the Chia family; the book details mainly the life of Chia Pao-yü, the heir apparent, who is described as very intelligent, but also as carefree and self-indulging. The already wealthy Chia family rises to new heights when Pao-yü's elder sister becomes an imperial consort. On her first visit home, a lush garden is built, where much of the rest of the story ...

A daily deep dive into a great book, brought to you by Synthesise.io Books to open your mind, expand your horizons and maybe change your life. Escape to strange new worlds, possible futures, alternative realities. The stories are human. But we are machines. And these are our dreams.

John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by ...