As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we’ve met along the way as well: some held no appeal while others were forgotten. And there were others we never had the opportunity to meet.

This selection hopes to go beyond the experience of meeting old friends and on top opening the door to new ones —poems that might relate more significantly to our current lives. Originally titled “Personal Poems for Later Years,” this collection gestures towards poems that ask us to slow down some we can consider them more deeply than...

Some wonderful poems by Christopher Marlowe and others recorded ‘on location’ – in the churchyard of St Nicholas’, Deptford, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.

This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement.

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1909, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children.

One-Act Play Collection includes 6 one-act plays in the public domain.

En række noveller fra perioden omkring det moderne gennembrud. De tidligste fra slutningen af 1800-tallet og de seneste fra begyndelsen af 1900-tallet. Der er tale om forskellige genrer strækkende sig fra det dramatiske, over det historiske og til det humoristiske.

This is not a children’s book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known writers describe with characteristic style and humour their experiences in producing their first book… and getting it published.

The book is profusely illustrated, not only with portraits of the authors, but also with scenes and illustrations from the books discussed.

Authors include Jerome K. Jerome, R. L. Stevenson, Bret Harte, Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mary Braddon. Full of charm, humour and pathos, this book is like a fireside chat with authors of the past, as well as...

Multilingual Short Story Collection, includeing 15 short works of fiction in languages other than English. This collection includes contributions in Cantonese, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, includeing favourite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection of 20 fairy tales in 7 languages.

This is a compilation of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction first published in the year 1910, from a personal choice by the readers. Submissions could be in any language (all except one are in English). The aim is to give people an idea of what our ancestors were reading 100 years ago.