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  Shakespeare Monologues...

  William Shakespeare

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  This is the 12th edition of the Shakespeare Monologues Collection, in which librivox volunteers bring you their favourite characters' monologues. All topics and emotions are covered, from love to hate, comedies and tragedies, world-famous and lesser known lines.  - Summary by Carolin

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  Songs of a Sourdough -...

  Robert Service, Vanessa Grant

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  The Bard of the Yukon ~ Banker, Hobo, and Klondike Poet 
  A downloadable PDF of Klondike Gold Rush illustrations is available on the Resources page at https://BookHip.com/FTCLVRT 
  Robert William Service was born in Lancashire, Engand in 1874. His mother was an heiress and his father a bank cashier. He was the eldest of 10 children. 
  When Service was 4 years old, he was sent to his grandfather and his 3 aunts in Scotland to live. He wrote his first poem two years later. 
  He was, it seemed, destined to be a poet and a wanderer. 
  In a 1958 CBC television interview, Canadian journalist Pierre Berton asked then 84 year old Robert Service why he had left Scotland and immigrated to Canada. 
  "I wanted freedom," said Service. "I wanted adventure. I got the idea, I want to be a hobo." 
  By the time the Klondike gold rush began, Robert Service was in San Francisco, carrying a hobo's bundle tied to his bindle stick. He used to stand in the street watching the gold prospectors marching off with their sacks, but he never dreamed of going himself. 
  "I was just a bindle stick," he told Burton. "How could I? I had no money." 
  Service wandered from California to British Columbia. He arrived in the Yukon in 1905 as a bank clerk and it was there where, surrounded by veterans of the gold rush, he began writing verses about the Yukon. 
  His first book of verses, Songs of the Sourdough, was published to acclaim in 1907, and was reprinted 10 times within the first year. Before his death in 1958, he had published over 1,000 poems and 45 verse collections. 
  The 2-room cabin in Dawson City where Robert Service lived from 1908 until his departure from the Yukon in 1912 is maintained as a Klondike National Historic Site by Parks Canada in honor of the Bard of the Yukon.

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  Poet To His Love

  Maxwell Bodenheim

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  Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim. This weekly poetry project was selected to celebrate Valentine’s Day.(Summary by Annie Coleman)

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  The Road to Oz

  L. Frank Baum

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  The Road to Oz takes Dorothy on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It dtarts near her home on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she helps a shaggy stranger find the road he is seeking. On the way they find a young boy, Button-Bright, and together they get lost, only to find themselves in the fairylands of Oz. Once again in Oz, Dorothy and her friends encounter a number of new characters:They make their way eventually to the Emerald City to participate in Ozma's birthday. In the end, Dorothy arrives safely back home, a little tired from her adventures, but quite content. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor Eden Giuliano is the popular narrator of many best selling audio books and an in demand movie actor.

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  Short Poetry Collection 153

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016.

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  Concerning the Atlas of Scotland...

  Tom Pow

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  The acclaimed Scottish author’s poetry collection explores life’s disorienting journeys, illustrated with maps from the National Library of Scotland. Tom Pow spent six months as writer in residence at the National Library of Scotland Map Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. The library’s historic maps and cartographic artifacts became touchstones for a series of poems exploring memory, place, and the distances we experience between each other. Published by Polygon in collaboration with the National Library, this unique volume is illustrated with details from the library’s collection. It is a beautiful and haunting book that invites readers to get lost in its pages.

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