Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 140 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:46:26. Poet and novelist George Abbe (1911-1989) recites 14 of his poems. He opens with an introduction in which he explains his belief that every poem requires an audience to offer praise and critique. In Track Listing 102, he reads and analyzes his poem “The Book,” using various interpretations...
Read by Jill Balcon, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, etc. — Folkways Records, 1960. — 221 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:52:02. Highlighting the works of many well-known English poets of the early to mid-20th century, this recording is the first in a series of three devoted to poetic performance, such as would occur during an evening gathering in a parlor. Several of the poems...
Read by Jill Balcon, Pauline Letts, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, etc. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 221 kbps. — Продолжительность 00:51:33 The second of three albums celebrating 20th-century English poetry, this recording brings together a number of poets reading their own and others’ work. Calling to mind a lively discussion, poem topics include war and biblical themes and include the...
Read by George Abbe. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 143 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:46:40. Poet and novelist George Abbe (1911–1989) selected and reads works written by 22 American poets. The poems, written during a twenty-year period from the 1940s to the early 1960s, are by noted and lesser-known poets including Theodore Roethke, Kenneth Patchen, John Ciardi, Karl Shapiro,...
Read by Jill Balcon, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, Christopher Hassall, etc. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 204 kbps. — Продолжительность 00:31:46. This first volume of the Anthology of English Verse is a lively performance of familiar poems, including William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat.” The poems are read by Jill...
Read by Lally Bowers, Pauline Letts, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Carleton Hobbs, etc. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 204 kbps. — Продолжительность 00:34:50. Tales of adventure, humor, and moral lessons fill the second volume of the Anthology of English Verse, a lively album featuring the work of noted poets such as W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, and Percy Bysshe...
Read by Arna Bontempts. — Folkways Records, 1955. — 218 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:44:51. Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. is the aural complement to “The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949,” edited by Langston Hughes along with Arna Bontemps - who reads the selections heard on this album. This collection characterizes the rich history of poetry in the African American...
Read by Michael Maloney. — Listening Library, 2008. — 22 kHz, 128 kbps, Stereo. — Duration 04:56:00. — ISBN: 9781846571510. Unabridged Edition. Boyne John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Audio is split by chapters, Enhanced Quality !) Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1973. — 201 kbps. — Duration 00:44:12. Revered by his colleagues, Sterling A. Brown was once considered “America’s foremost authority on black literature.” His poems were thought to be highly intellectual yet, more importantly, extremely relatable. This sixteen poem collection includes several poems from Brown’s first published book...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1995. — 192 kbps. — Duration 00:52:04. Poet, critic, legendary teacher, irreverent raconteur Sterling Brown reads 21 of his most memorable poems. The verses resonate with the music of the life he saw around him—the blues sung to lost loves, chants of saints praying to be in the number, tragic-comic cries in the face of hatred and...
Read by the authors. — Folkways Records, 1952. — 244 kbps. — Duration 00:36:04. Two of the 20th century’s most influential poets representing the African-American voice are captured here reciting their own short stories and poetry. From the lyrical, lulling rhythms of Brown’s poem, "Break of Day," to longer, narrative, entertaining stories such as Hughes’ "Feet Live their Own...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1980. — 150 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:38:19. In 1980, noted music historian and frequent Folkways producer Samuel B. Charters finished his poem “Of Those Who Died: A Poem of the Spring of 1945.” Begun in 1973, Charters’ poem is an homage to those soldiers who would not be returning home to their loved ones. His poem is also...
Audio theater. — Bbc Book Pub, 2002. — 128 kbps. — (BBC Radio Collection). Over the course of six episodes, the early years of Dr. Finlay are explored, as he gets to grips with the locals in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford. But the new doctor is full of surprises; caring, stub-born, idealistic and clever, but he proves to be more than a match for the local residents. His...
Read by Nicholas Boulton. — Ukemi, 2016. — 64 kbps. — Duration 05:18:00. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is known universally for the gentle charm of Le Petit Prince, but it is this book, Land of Men - known originally in English as Wind, Sand and Stars - which is his masterpiece. First published in 1939, it documents Saint-Exupéry's life as a pilot in the pioneering days of...
Read by Stephen Fry. — Random House Audiobooks, 1998. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:38:16. Жизнь такого человека как Стивен Фрай вряд ли может быть заурядной. А уж описание ее в авторском исполнении тем более. Автобиография Стивена Фрая охватывает два первых десятилетия его жизни. Вся правда о том, как жил-был маленький мальчик, как он превратился в лжеца и преступника, и как из всего...
Read by Stephen Fry. — Random House Audiobooks, 1998. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:38:16. Жизнь такого человека как Стивен Фрай вряд ли может быть заурядной. А уж описание ее в авторском исполнении тем более. Автобиография Стивена Фрая охватывает два первых десятилетия его жизни. Вся правда о том, как жил-был маленький мальчик, как он превратился в лжеца и преступника, и как из всего...
Read by David Horovitch. — Ukemi, 2019. — 64 kbos. — Duration 28:44:00. The Good Soldier Švejk, written shortly after the First World War, is one of the great antiwar satires - and one of the funniest books of the 20th (or any) century. In creating his eponymous hero, Jaroslav Hašek produced an unforgettable character who charms and infuriates and bamboozles his way through the...
Read by David Horovitch. — Ukemi, 2019. — 64 kbos. — Duration 28:44:00. The Good Soldier Švejk, written shortly after the First World War, is one of the great antiwar satires - and one of the funniest books of the 20th (or any) century. In creating his eponymous hero, Jaroslav Hašek produced an unforgettable character who charms and infuriates and bamboozles his way through the...
Read by David Rintoul. — Ukemi, 2016. — 64 kbps. — Duration 26:57:00. First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbours in his native Lübeck. As he charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to...
Read by David Rintoul. — Ukemi, 2016. — 64 kbps. — Duration 26:57:00. First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbours in his native Lübeck. As he charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1978. — 214 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:42:04. Rarely does the truth seem so comforting as when Giovanni shares her candid observations about the struggles of the African-American woman in the 1970s. In this collection of poems, the poet’s human flaws are endearing, her sadness is enlightening and her loneliness speaks for an entire...
Read by the Author. — Folkways Records, 1976. — 210 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:24:16. “Those who have gone before and those who are yet to be birthed – it is to these that we owe our legacies. I am hopeful we are at least as strong as our foreparents and I am confident we will be as intelligent as the next century requires.” This collection of poetry by Nikki Giovanni...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1976. — 240 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:18:52 Nikki Giovanni reads her poems for children, many of which carry a child-like sensibility. These are sure to delight, with titles like "Parents Never Understand" and "James Shell’s Snowball Stand." Dance Poem Kidnap Poem For the Masai Warriors of Don Miller Poem for Flora Alabama Poem Winter...
Read by Kevin T. Collins. — Audible, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:08:00. "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1972. — 235 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:53:28. Poet/novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a figure in New York City’s Greenwich Village literary scene, which Folkways Records’ founder Moses Asch documented. A jazz lover, Patchen often read poetry to jazz accompaniment, and he also collaborated with John Cage and Charles Mingus. In...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1963. — 221 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:48:13. Norman Rosten (1913–1995) was an award-winning poet, writer, and playwright who specialized in narrative poetry and full-length plays. The poems in this collection span two decades of Rosten’s career and include “For Walt Whitman,” “Introduction for Beginners,” and “The Well.” Having Rosten...
Read by the authors. — Folkways Records, 1957. — 242 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:57:00. Six Montreal Poets is a collection of mid-20th-century poetry featuring six members of the Montreal Group, modernist writers formed at McGill University in the 1920s. This 1957 album offers listeners a slice of the romance and bustle of mid-century Montreal. Rejecting the Victorianism that...
Read by Marian Seldes. — Folkways Records, 1963. — 137 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:40:42. Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes makes her third appearance in Folkways’ Poet’s Theatre Series with her reading from Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans. Seldes reads two passages: the first from Stein’s book (“The Making of America”) and the second from a lecture (“Lectures...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1983. — 150 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:57:08. Lucien Stryk (1924–2013) was an English professor and a poet who also translated Buddhist literature and Zen poetry. His own poems in turn have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, Swedish, and Spanish. Influenced by Walt Whitman, Paul Éluard, and Basho, Stryk in this...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1983. — 230 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:55:09. “Ox bridle tossed, vows taken, I’m robed and shaven clean. You ask why Bodhidharma came east—Staff thrust out, I hum like mad.” From this poem by Zen master Reito (666-760), Lucien Stryk leads us into an amazing Zen poem journey that spans nearly 1,500 years—from the early Tang Dynasty in...
Read by Margaret Walker. — Folkways Records, 1975. — 206 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:52:21. Margaret Walker was one of the most respected poets not only in the African American community but in America at large. Reading selections from her most acclaimed collection of poetry “For My People,” Walker’s poetry expresses a collective historical identity in poems such as “Big John...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1975. — 217 kbps. — Продолжительность: 00:44:10. Margaret Walker was one of the most respected poets not only in the African American community but in America at large. Walker’s poems were first published in the 1930s when she was still a teenager and from there her popularity only grew. Walker’s poems tend to focus on themes surrounding...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Unabridged ed. — Narrated by: Scott Sowers (Narrator). — Recorded Books, 2018. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 26:18:00 The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving...
Read by Joan Walker. — Ukemi, 2019. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:41:00. This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her...
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