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A Boy's Will

Early Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Unabridged

41 min

Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written.This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind and Window Flower, Love and a Question, Storm Fear, and ... Read more

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Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written.This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind and Window Flower, Love and a Question, Storm Fear, and
... Read more
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Theory of Pyschoanalysis

by Carl Jung ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

5 hours 14 min

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book ... Read more

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Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book
... Read more
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Mrs. Molesworth's Ghost Stories: Four Uncanny Tales

by Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Unabridged

3 hours 28 min

Unlike most ghost story writers, Mary Louisa Molesworth does not want to make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You may wake up with a shiver, but you'll also wake wake up feeling thoughtful, musing on how the mysteries of love, compassion, and memory can extend themselves into the realm of the supernatural.In "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady", she explores how women fallen on hard times ... Read more

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Unlike most ghost story writers, Mary Louisa Molesworth does not want to make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You may wake up with a shiver, but you'll also wake wake up feeling thoughtful, musing on how the mysteries of love, compassion, and memory can extend themselves into the realm of the supernatural.In "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady", she explores how women fallen on hard times
... Read more
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Flame and Shadow

Poetry of Sara Teasdale

by Sara Teasdale ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Series series Poetry of Sara Teasdale
Unabridged

1 hour 5 min

Sara Teasdale - winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Poetry Society of America prize, and other awards - lived for love and beauty and died by her own hand. Her poetry shows vividly what an intensely passionate woman she was, so much so that in some of her poetry she speaks of the impact of beauty in terms of physical pain, and the impact of love in terms of birth and death. She knew the world of her ... Read more

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Sara Teasdale - winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Poetry Society of America prize, and other awards - lived for love and beauty and died by her own hand. Her poetry shows vividly what an intensely passionate woman she was, so much so that in some of her poetry she speaks of the impact of beauty in terms of physical pain, and the impact of love in terms of birth and death. She knew the world of her
... Read more
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Voices of the Ghost I: Spirits with Issues

by H. G. Wells, John Kendrick Bangs ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Voices of the Ghost
Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

Here are three stories that will make you chuckle and shiver at the same time. Spirits can be funny when they turn out to have issues and problems of their own, and the authors of these stories, John Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells, have a fine time putting smiles on our faces - and wiping them off again!"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall"What do you do about a ghost who is both terrifying and ... Read more

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Here are three stories that will make you chuckle and shiver at the same time. Spirits can be funny when they turn out to have issues and problems of their own, and the authors of these stories, John Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells, have a fine time putting smiles on our faces - and wiping them off again!"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall"What do you do about a ghost who is both terrifying and
... Read more
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Black Riders, the

and other lines

by Stephen Crane ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Poetry of Stephen Crane
Unabridged

45 min

In 1894, when Stephen Crane was just twenty-two years old, he showed his friend, Hamlin Garland, a set of poems in manuscript. Garland showed them to John D. Barry, who arranged for a public reading of the new work. Crane could not summon up the courage to read the poems, or even attend the reading; he waited outside on the street while Barry read them.The publishing firm of Copeland and Day took ... Read more

$14.36 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In 1894, when Stephen Crane was just twenty-two years old, he showed his friend, Hamlin Garland, a set of poems in manuscript. Garland showed them to John D. Barry, who arranged for a public reading of the new work. Crane could not summon up the courage to read the poems, or even attend the reading; he waited outside on the street while Barry read them.The publishing firm of Copeland and Day took
... Read more
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Bastille, the

The French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series French Revolution
Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of ... Read more

$26.96 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of
... Read more
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Borgias, The

Celebrated Crimes, Book 1

by Alexandre Dumas ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Celebrated Crimes
Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.In this, the first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of the three most famous members of the Borgia family - Pope ... Read more

$26.96 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.In this, the first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of the three most famous members of the Borgia family - Pope
... Read more
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Psychology of the Unconscious

by Carl Jung ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

15 hours 10 min

Originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is the book that set Carl Jung on his independent path as a psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the mysterious world of the unconscious mind of the individual and the mythological mind of humanity. He bases his work on an exploration of Miss Frank Miller's Quelques Faits d'Imagination Creatrice, demonstrating complex ... Read more

$35.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is the book that set Carl Jung on his independent path as a psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the mysterious world of the unconscious mind of the individual and the mythological mind of humanity. He bases his work on an exploration of Miss Frank Miller's Quelques Faits d'Imagination Creatrice, demonstrating complex
... Read more
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Shropshire Lad, a

Poetry of A.E. Housman

by A. E. Housman ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Poetry of A. E. Housman
Unabridged

1 hour 13 min

A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition.Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil can come to good people, and human beings can find themselves torn deeply by conflicting desires and feelings. Housman had great faith in his work even ... Read more

$16.16 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition.Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil can come to good people, and human beings can find themselves torn deeply by conflicting desires and feelings. Housman had great faith in his work even
... Read more
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Chicago Poems

The Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
Unabridged

2 hours 12 min

This was Carl Sandburg's breakthrough book. It is easy to see how it draws directly on Sandburg's life in Chicago, as it speaks powerfully of the specific character of that city and begins with his famous poem that names Chicago as the "City of the Broad Shoulders".His poetry is deeply aware of the inner life of the city, from a homeless woman freezing in a doorway to the lifestyles of the rich ... Read more

$15.26 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This was Carl Sandburg's breakthrough book. It is easy to see how it draws directly on Sandburg's life in Chicago, as it speaks powerfully of the specific character of that city and begins with his famous poem that names Chicago as the "City of the Broad Shoulders".His poetry is deeply aware of the inner life of the city, from a homeless woman freezing in a doorway to the lifestyles of the rich
... Read more
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Fugitive Pieces

Poetry of Lord Byron

by Lord Byron ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Poetry of Lord Byron
Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

George Gordon, later Lord Byron, published Fugitive Pieces in 1806 when he was only 18 years old. It was printed, but Byron's friends - particularly Reverend Thomas Beecher - advised him that it contained poems that were scandalously amorous, particularly the poem To Mary. Byron suppressed it by having all the copies destroyed - or so he thought. As it happened, Thomas Beecher himself kept his ... Read more

$16.16 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

George Gordon, later Lord Byron, published Fugitive Pieces in 1806 when he was only 18 years old. It was printed, but Byron's friends - particularly Reverend Thomas Beecher - advised him that it contained poems that were scandalously amorous, particularly the poem To Mary. Byron suppressed it by having all the copies destroyed - or so he thought. As it happened, Thomas Beecher himself kept his
... Read more