Narratives - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
"Better translate--"A Roman murder-case: "Position of the entire criminal cause "Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman, "With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay, "Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death "By heading or hanging as befitted...
The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero OisΓn and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful...
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat", the "single most...
Men of Harlech - Talhaiarn
Men of Harlech - Talhaiarn
- Author: Talhaiarn
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers present 7 versions of "Men of Harlech" by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012. "Men of Harlech" or "The March of the Men of Harlech" is a song and military march which is traditionally said to...
Poetic Trios - Various
Poetic Trios - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives
We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Morris, Swinburne and Rossetti. We hope you enjoy listening to them. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Balder Dead (version 2) - Matthew Arnold
Balder Dead (version 2) - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Epics / Narratives
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with exile, and Odin, Balder's father,...
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme - C. J. Dennis
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / Narratives
Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town, the other a classy city girl, both...
The Bridal of Triermain - Sir Walter Scott
The Bridal of Triermain - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Narratives
Scott's The Bridal of Triermain is a rhymed, romantic, narrative poem which weaves together elements of popular English legend using dramatic themes. This beautiful poem celebrates the exploits of a knight errant - Sir Roland De Vaux - as he seeks...
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto IV - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto IV - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Narratives
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who,...
The Last Buccaneer - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Last Buccaneer - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 4th, 2009....
The Lays of Ancient Rome - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Lays of Ancient Rome - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Narratives
The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman historical-legends that were strongly moral in tone: exemplifying Roman virtue against Latine perfidy.The four...
Captain Craig: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
Captain Craig: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Author: Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Genre: Narratives
This is a volume of narrative poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. - Summary by Carolin...
Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode - Matthew Arnold
Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Epics / Narratives
A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this end, he persuades his general to call a truce and arrange for him to challenge the Persians to single...
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - William Henry Davies
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - William Henry Davies
- Author: William Henry Davies
- Genre: Narratives / Travel & Geography
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871β1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the...
The Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Narratives
The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of...
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition - Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Narratives / Literary Criticism / Writing & Linguistics
Poeβs famous narrative poem and the authorβs reflections on its composition. (David Wales)...
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Satire / Narratives
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in...
Peter Bell: A Tale - William Wordsworth
Peter Bell: A Tale - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Narratives
A ne'er-do-well's life is changed by an encounter with a stubborn animal. - Summary by Matthew Schneider...
The Lord of the Isles - Sir Walter Scott
The Lord of the Isles - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Narratives
In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile by the English and their allies. Bruce returns over sea from the Island of Rachrin: but is forced to land...
Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse - Tom HOOD
Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse - Tom HOOD
- Author: Tom HOOD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 - 1874). The tales are; The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hop o' my Thumb. Summary by Noel...
The Borough - George CRABBE
The Borough - George CRABBE
- Author: George CRABBE
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700βs and early 1800sβis the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form...
The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich - Arthur Hugh CLOUGH
The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich - Arthur Hugh CLOUGH
- Author: Arthur Hugh CLOUGH
- Genre: Narratives
Arthur Clough provides us with a timeless coming of age story involving a young Englishman studying in Scotland who falls in love. - Summary by Liam Brady...
The Island - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Island - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Narratives
Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the mutineers as they flee to a South Sea island, "their guilt-won Paradise." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...
Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading) - William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his patron, the Earl of Southampton (thought by some to be the beautiful youth to which many of the Sonnets are...
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the "Flower of Teviot" is beloved by Baron Henry of Cranstown an ally of the...
Pearl (Weston translation) - The Gawain Poet
Pearl (Weston translation) - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives
Pearl is a structurally complex mediaeval poem that combines narrative, allegory, dream vision, elegy, affirmation of Christian faith and meditation on grief. This recording is of Jessie Laidlay Westonβs translation from the Middle English....
Two Cumberland Ballads - John Stagg
Two Cumberland Ballads - John Stagg
- Author: John Stagg
- Genre: Ballads / Narratives
Two narrative ballads, based on local lore, by the Cumberland poet John Stagg. In 'The Hermit of Rockcliffe', a young fugitive takes refuge with a hermit, hears a bizarre and cautionary tale of what might befall a lusty young man at a masked ball,...
The White Doe of Rylstone - William Wordsworth
The White Doe of Rylstone - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Narratives
A narrative poem in seven cantos, set during the Northern Rebellion of 1569. A group of Catholic nobleman from the North of England attempt to unseat Queen Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. They are soon routed and Elizabeth's...
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
- Author: Tom Maguire
- Genre: Single author / Lyric / Narratives
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was published posthumously in 1895 and includes prefatory commemorative remarks by Keir Hardie and John Bruce Glasier....
Venus and Adonis (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, whereas Ovid, like Shakespeare, combines humor with pathos as a buffer against sentimentality. Ovidβs Venus...
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Castled Crag of Drachenfels, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 5, 2021. ------ The Castled Crag at Drachenfels is a 4-verse poem embedded in Canto 3...
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Elegies & Odes / Narratives
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic...
Digger Smith - C. J. Dennis
Digger Smith - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Romance / War & Military Fiction / Narratives
βDigger Smithβ is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with βANZAC eyesβ ... what a later war would call βThe Thousand Yard Stareβ. Despite his post-traumatic...
