Publisher: Good Press
Immerse yourself in the lyrical beauty of E. Nesbit's "The Rainbow and the Rose." This collection of poetry captures the essence of life's joys, sorrows, and fleeting moments. Nesbit's evocative verses resonate with emotion, making this a poignant read for anyone seeking solace and inspiration in the world of poetry.
Isabelle, a young university researcher, is sent to a country manor house deep in the heart of rural Shropshire to verify an ancient object that the family has discovered during the renovation of their home. While Isabelle sets to work verifying its authenticity, she becomes the obsession of the owner’s strange but beautiful daughter and they develop a dangerous attraction. Isabelle soon discovers that the object has a cursed history and that the house holds a dark and chilling secret. A chance finding of a 200 year old journal confirms Isabelle’s suspicions that the family are not the only residents at Ashwell Hall and something more terrifying lurks within. The truth is far more shocking than she could have imagined and will change Isabelle’s life forever. Around every corner lies another harrowing surprise and Isabelle will be tested to her limits as she tries to escape from the Crucible of the Vampire, a modern gothic thriller that transports you from the English Civil War to the present day.Show book
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2012.Show book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of Saint Distaff's Day, or the Morrow After Twelfth Day, by Robert Herrick. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 6th, 2008.What is St. Distaff's Day? Historically, it was the day after the Christmas festivals ended (the 12 days of Christmas), and most women went back to work with their spinning… but it was also a day of pranks and horsing around. Additional information can be found in Chambers' Book of Days.Show book
This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and presidents come and go and some of the reasons that wars have come about are now lost from memory or are obscured in our history texts. A consistent aspect of war is that those who fight them are not those who arrange them. The soldiers and sailors who suffer loss of limb, scarred minds or forfeit their lives mostly come from the lower and middle rungs of our societal ladder. They are our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. Once gone, it is the family who notices the empty chair at the family table while society at large knows not their name. Death has captured them and taken them forever from our midst. It has become personal and not a vague philosophical idea. The theme of Donne’s poem is that, though Death is irresistible, it has no cause to be proud. The human spirit and its hope for redemption is indomitable. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 27th, 2006. (Summary by Robert Garrison)Show book
An exhilarating epic by the award-winning Antaeus Theatre Company with 16 actors portraying more than 130 characters. London in the 1830's - the most colorful and chaotic city in the world - and young journalist Charles Dickens is uncovering a dark conspiracy of arson and murder. A fanciful look at the man before he became the iconic author we know today. Based on an original screenplay by Janet Dulin Jones.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Apicella, Anne Gee Byrd, Jane Carr, Josh Clark, Angela Goethals, Bruce Green, Jeanie Hackett, Joy Jacobson, Michael Kirby, Jeremy Lawrence, Bill Mendieta, Rebecca Mozo, John Prosky, John Sloan, Devon Sorvari, Janellen Steininger and Peter Van Norden.Show book
There is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous – Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild, mischievous spirit. For Jane, poetry is all about listening, and she invites us to listen to the imagined worlds of hunter-gatherers, star-gazers, mythical beings, wild creatures, the living and the dead, and the real world of a gay woman growing up in the 70s.Show book
