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Top 10 Poets – The African-American Men, The

Five poems each from some of the best African American male poets

by Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, James Monroe Whitfield, George Moses Horton, George Marion McClellan, James Edwin Campbell, Jupiter Hammond ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Warren Keyes, Machelle Williams ...

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
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Top 10 Poets – The African-Americans, The

Five poems each from some of the best African American poets

by Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Frances E W Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Adah Isaacs Menken ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Warren Keyes, Laurel Lefkow ...

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
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Top 10 Poets – The American Men, The

Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever born in the USA

by Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vachel Lindsay, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, John-Michael MacDonald, Warren Keyes ...

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets, The - The U S - The South-East

Five poems each from poets born in the American South East

by James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, John Gould Fletcher, George Moses Horton, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sidney Lanier, Willa Cather, John Bannister Tabb, George Marion McClellan, Abram Joseph Ryan ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Machelle Williams, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets – The U S, The - Mid-West

Five poems each from poets born in the American Mid West

by Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hart Crane, Sara Teasdale, Vachel Lindsay, James Whitcomb Riley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Katherine Chapman Tillman, Eugene Field, Ambrose Bierce ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Eric Meyers, Warren Keyes ...

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Poetry of Claude McKay, The

A pioneer of black poetry and a founder of the Harlem Renaissance

by Claude McKay ...

Narrated by Warren Keyes ...

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1 hour 3 min

Festus Claudius McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on the 15th September 1890, He was the youngest son to parents who had gathered enough assets to secure them the right to vote.As a boy he was fascinated by English Poetry and literature, although at 17 he took on work as an apprentice woodcutter for two years before becoming a police constable in the capital, Kingston. In this mainly white ... Read more

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Festus Claudius McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on the 15th September 1890, He was the youngest son to parents who had gathered enough assets to secure them the right to vote.As a boy he was fascinated by English Poetry and literature, although at 17 he took on work as an apprentice woodcutter for two years before becoming a police constable in the capital, Kingston. In this mainly white
... Read more
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Stories Exploring Morality

Right vs wrong

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, F Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Martha Gruening, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Bierce0, Ryunosuke Akutagawa1, Frank R Stockton2 ...

Narrated by Jim Norton3, David Shaw-Parker4, Warren Keyes5 ...

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10 hours 50 min

The concept of right and wrong, of good and bad, is taught to us from childhood. It’s a guiding principle as we journey through the decades of life. Easy to keep to? Sometimes it’s easier not to.Authors of the talent of Franz Kafka, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others create characters and circumstances that test their capacity for morality to the limit.1 - Stories Exploring ... Read more

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The concept of right and wrong, of good and bad, is taught to us from childhood. It’s a guiding principle as we journey through the decades of life. Easy to keep to? Sometimes it’s easier not to.Authors of the talent of Franz Kafka, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others create characters and circumstances that test their capacity for morality to the limit.1 - Stories Exploring
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Rhyme A Dozen, A - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ― Birthdays

12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic

by Christina Rossetti, Lucretia Maria Davidson, Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Ross Wallace, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Waller, James Russell Lowell, Henry Baker, Jane Austen, Martin Farquhar Tupper, John Milton ...

Narrated by Stella Gonet, Ghizela Rowe, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

33 min

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme A ... Read more

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‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme A
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The Americans

The top ten short stories written in the 1920s by authors from America

by F Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Ellen Glasgow, H P Lovecraft, Richard Connell, Ring Lardner, Robert E Howard, Rudolph Fisher, Tod Robbins, Zane Grey ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Warren Keyes, Kelly Burke ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Short Stories About Trickery & Deception

Tales of manipulation, broken promises and tests of faith

by Rudyard Kipling, Maxim Gorky, Edith Wharton, Saki, O Henry, Georgia F Stewart, John Davys Beresford, H P Lovecraft, Ivan Turgenev, Ella D'Arcy, Perceval Gibbon, Kate Chopin, Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli, Samuel Blas, Israel Zangwill, Anatole France, Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

11 hours 13 min

As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can’t be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out.In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky, ... Read more

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As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can’t be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out.In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky,
... Read more
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David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

by David Walker ...

Narrated by Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

3 hours 13 min

David Walker (1796 –1830) was an abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. In 1829, he published ‘An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World’, a call for black unity and resistance against slavery. Walker challenged the racism of his time, specifically targeting the American Colonization Society, an organization which sought to deport all free and freed blacks from the United States to a colony ... Read more

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David Walker (1796 –1830) was an abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. In 1829, he published ‘An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World’, a call for black unity and resistance against slavery. Walker challenged the racism of his time, specifically targeting the American Colonization Society, an organization which sought to deport all free and freed blacks from the United States to a colony
... Read more
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The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson ...

Narrated by Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

5 hours 8 min

‘The Mis-Education of the Negro’ by Carter Godwin Woodson (1933), addresses important economic and social issues that were face by African-Americans. Woodson criticises education in American schools, and the emphasis on the history of the Greeks, Romans and British. He explores the legacy of slavery and the economic situation of blacks in the time of depression. In each chapter he considers the ... Read more

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‘The Mis-Education of the Negro’ by Carter Godwin Woodson (1933), addresses important economic and social issues that were face by African-Americans. Woodson criticises education in American schools, and the emphasis on the history of the Greeks, Romans and British. He explores the legacy of slavery and the economic situation of blacks in the time of depression. In each chapter he considers the
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Top 10 Poets – The African-American Men, The

Top 10 Poets – The African-Americans, The

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Top 10 Poets, The - The U S - The South-East

Top 10 Poets – The U S, The - Mid-West

Poetry of Claude McKay, The

Stories Exploring Morality

Rhyme A Dozen, A - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ― Birthdays

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