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This Podcast contains a large section of audiobooks by Edgar Allan Poe.All titles provided are in English, and taked from Librivox.org.All Librivox.org recordings are in the Public Domain.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Christmas Greens by George A. Baker Jr..This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 29, 2020. ------A cold winter's night, two damsels vying for the affections of the pastor. - Summary by David Lawrence

L'essenza dell'Abruzzo è declinata in questa novella nei suoi peculiari aspetti culturali.Lo sguardo attento e compiaciuto di Valerio Di Stefano ci accompagna attraverso le viuzze di un paesino dove la vita scorre ancora lenta, tra i profumi e i sapori di una terra "forte e gentile" come i suoi abitanti."Lo schiaffatone" si differenzia completamente dalle precedenti narrazioni, mantenendo però il solito marchio di fabbrica: un'ironia inconfondibile e sottile che, in queste pagine, diventa bonaria ed empatica.Valerio Di Stefano è docente di lingua e letteratura spagnola dalla penna felice ...

This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit.It is hoped that the collection will prove equally acceptable to parents, teachers, and librarians. - Summary from the preface

American author and poet, Clinton Scollard, presents a charming collection of poetry to brighten the Christmas season. - Summary by Larry Wilson

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Christmas in the Heart by Paul Laurence Dunbar.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 10, 2023. ------Dunbar became the first African-American poet to earn national distinction and acceptance. The New York Times called him "a true singer of the people – white or black." Frederick Douglass once referred to Dunbar as, "one of the sweetest songsters his race has produced and a man of whom [he hoped] great things." - Summary by Wikipedia

This theatrical version of A Christmas Carol was performed at the Surrey Theatre in February 1844 just weeks after the publication of the novella by Dickens in December of the previous year. (There were 7 other adaptations also being shown on stage then, with only 1 version - not this one - being sanctioned by Dickens.) - Summary by ToddHWCast list:Ebenezer Scrooge, the Miser: Greg GiordanoFrank Freeheart, his Nephew: Agnes Robert BehrMr. Cheerly: James R. HedrickMr. Heartly: Chuck WilliamsonBob Cratchit, Scrooge's Clerk: BeeswaxcandleDark Sam: Wayne CookeCharacters in the Dream: Euston, a ...

Eleven short works or book chapters about Christmas or around that time period. - Summary by David Wales

This 1913 story is far more than a Christmas tale. It is a story about spiritual wisdom; the seeking of wisdom, the getting of wisdom, even when the seeking and the getting is obscure. Henry Collinton is an 81 year old, widowed, Episcopal Church bishop. The story opens on the morning of the Bishop’s last Christmas and ends with his death that night. We see him encounter four to him important people throughout the day, three friends and the Nazarene, the Christ, he has followed all his life. “Yet these things the Bishop did not know, for God was showing him more beautiful things, even as ...

Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passages in books where they have lain hidden for decades. Britannica defines an essay as "an analytic, interpretive, or critical literary composition usually much shorter and less systematic and formal than a dissertation or thesis and usually dealing with its subjects from a limited and often personal point of view." In short, an essay is neither fiction nor a short story, but a composition designed to educate/persuade more than entertain or inform, though ...

This 1911 collection is of snippets from many different sources and genres: myths, songs. poems, hymns, book sections, etc. The sources are not indicated in the body of the text, though they do appear in the table of contents. Note that some selections use language that we do not use today (racist, sexist, classist, etc) but was common in former times. - Summary by david wales

Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales

Four poems by American Poets, including The River Path by John Greenleaf Whittier, Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Rose by James Russell Lowell, and Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. - Summary by Krista Zaleski

La Vita Nuova di Dante Alighieri nella lettura di Valerio Di Stefano.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Christmas by W. H. Davies.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 7, 2022. ------This Fortnightly features the festive, well, partying side of the Holiday Season. - Summary by David Lawrence

Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christmas carols by Christina Rossetti. - Summary by David Wales

Sixty-two short pieces, many/most of them originally published in The Pansy, a magazine for children. The topics are many and varied, but mostly involve children and teach a moral lesson. (Summary by TriciaG)PARENTAL WARNING: A couple stories, such as "Gertie's Sober Talk" and "Old Jack", are about animals that die or are put down, and who don't have souls.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2022.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882) was an American poet and teacher best known for the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song Of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline." He was one of the so-called fireside poets from New England. This poem was written on Christmas Day 1863 and deals with the stark contrast between the Christmas message of peace on earth and the brutal and devastating American Civil War which was at its height....

Seven stories, chapters, essays, or poetry about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by david wales

Now that the railroad has come through, Christie Tucker's parents have decided to save enough for her to go to her well-to-do Uncle Daniel for a one-day visit, on Christmas, which is also Christie's birthday. It's her first trip away from home -- and on the cars! Of course, the trip doesn't turn out exactly as expected. That one day, and how Christie lived it, has consequences that keep coming! Addressed by the author to girls, it is still a pleasant story for adults, too. (Summary by TriciaG)