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  • Audiobook

    Classic Love Poetry

    Poems to fall in love with or for those you fell in love with

    Unabridged

    57 min

    "If music be the food of love, play on" was one of Shakespeare's finest lines. If music is food, then poetry is the wine. In this volume of classic love poetry, the flavoured capture of words and rhythms makes us think more carefully of words and their value to us. They also surprise us with their structure and meaning, layering in thoughts and emotions that we might otherwise shy away from. Poems ... Read more

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  • "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

    Enriched edition. A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln

    Abe Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories is a tapestry of narrative arts, weaving together tales that traverse a spectrum of literary styles, from the pithy and concise to the richly descriptive. This anthology captures the essence of 19th-century oratory and literary finesse, reflecting the era's complex societal motifs and ideals. Its pages are filled with humor, morality, and wisdom, capturing the ... Read more

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    Wordsworth

    Selected Poems

    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 23 min

    William Wordsworth (1770–1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped launch the romantic age in English literature. These ... Read more

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  • "Abe" Lincoln's anecdotes and stories

    a collection of the best stories told by Lincoln, which made him famous as America's best story teller

    This wonderful collection is full of the witty anecdotes and stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. Here's an example:SORRY FOR THE HORSESWhen President Lincoln heard of the Confederate raid at Fairfax, in which a brigadier-general and a number of valuable horses were captured, he gravely observed:"Well, I am sorry for the horses.""Sorry for the horses, Mr. President!" exclaimed the Secretary ... Read more

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  • Abe Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

    A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story Teller (Annotated)

    "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories by R. D. Wordsworth, first published in 1908, is a collection that showcases Abraham Lincoln's wit, humor, and storytelling abilities. Compiled to celebrate Lincoln as "America's best storyteller," the book includes numerous anecdotes, both humorous and insightful, that reflect Lincoln's character and how he used humor as a coping mechanism during difficult ... Read more

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  • Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Nature, Imagination, and the Revolutionary Spirit of English Romantic Poetry

    Lyrical Ballads and other Poems stands at the decisive threshold of British Romanticism, recasting poetry as an instrument of imaginative discovery, moral reflection, and attentiveness to ordinary life. Its ballads, meditations, supernatural narratives, and conversational lyrics range from rural hardship and childhood perception to visionary terror and the restorative powers of nature. Pieces such ... Read more

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  • A History of Cadbury

    The history of the world-famous confectioner—maker of the Cadbury Creme Egg—from nineteenth-century shop to multinational brand.When John Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1824, he sold tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate in a small shop on Bull Street. Drinking chocolate was considered a healthy alternative to alcohol, something Cadbury, a Quaker, was keen to encourage. By 1879, the Cadburys were ... Read more

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  • Lyrical Ballads

    Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literature—a period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

    Series Book 14 - The Reader's Library
    William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s ... Read more

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  • Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803

    The memoir provides an intimate, day-by-day account of their travels, beginning with their departure from the Lake District and their movement through the rugged highlands of Scotland. Dorothy’s keen eye for detail and poetic prose bring the Scottish countryside to life, portraying the natural beauty of mountains, lochs, and valleys. Her deep connection to nature, much like her brother’s, shines ... Read more

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  • The Prelude

    The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)

    First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of ... Read more

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  • Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803

    According to Wikipedia: "Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise only of a series of letters, diary entries and short stories." ... Read more

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