Bay: A Book of Poems by D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 - 1930) Genre(s): Single author Read by: Bruce Kachuk in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Guards! 00:03:01 - 02 - The Little Town at Evening 00:04:20 - 03 - Last Hours 00:06:08 - 04 - Town 00:07:41 - 05 - After the Opera 00:08:57 - 06 - Going Back 00:10:41 - 07 - On the March 00:13:27 - 08 - Bombardment 00:14:24 - 09 - Winter-Lull 00:15:53 - 10 - The Attack 00:17:34 - 11 - Obsequial Ode 00:19:57 - 12 - Shades 00:21:10 - 13 - Bread upon the Waters 00:22:25 - 14 - Ruination 00:23:20 - 15 - Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector 00:25:31 - 16 - Tommies in the Train 00:27:37 - 17 - War-Baby 00:28:47 - 18 - Nostalgia The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident in this collection of poems conceived during the years of The Great War. Lawrence, living a semi-nomadic lifestyle in England throughout these years, seized the opportunity to write of events and their effects from an objective but by no means dispassionate perspective.Indeed the passion of Lawrence while attempting to understand the collective motivation of mankind in the name of wartime vengeance is very evident throughout this work, manifesting itself in poems of deep analytical insight, clarity of thought and Lawrence's characteristic rage against the dehumanization of his fellow man - exhibited here by the predominance of the war machine and profusely mirrored by its regimentation, united malevolence and resulting horrors of conflict. In addition, Lawrence's unsurpassed poetic skill vividly portrays the wartime vulnerability of the British homeland as 'a flat red lily with a million petals', unfolding and meeting its doom as 'a dark bird falls from the sun'; marching soldiers are depicted by Lawrence as, 'advancing as water towards a weir'; while the 'coiled, convulsive throes of this marching' is described as adopting a universality typical of soldiers everywhere, advancing while never knowing their eventual fate nor where or when it will be met.These poems, these vignettes of a nation engulfed in war, these masterworks of color on a canvas of bewilderment form an important contribution to the literature of World War I and exhibit an essential facet of D.H. Lawrence the man - the brilliant wordsmith whose portrayal of the human condition is unsurpassed in its honesty and candor. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk More information: https://librivox.org/bay-a-book-of-poems-by-d-h-lawrence/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry by Émile GABORIAU (1832 - 1873), translated by UNKNOWN ( - ) Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction Read by: Margaret Espaillat, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Justin Brett, Spike Holcomb, Lazuli, Pentti Hirvonen, Ezwa, Nicholas Clifford, Phil Chenevert in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 28 - 28 00:10:14 - 29 - 29 00:20:09 - 30 - 30 00:43:52 - 31 - 31 00:56:42 - 32 - 32 01:18:11 - 33 - 33 01:43:25 - 34 - 34 02:03:21 - 35 - 35 02:14:15 - 36 - 36 02:39:01 - 37 - 37 02:58:11 - 38 - 38 03:16:20 - 39 - 39 03:26:33 - 40 - 40 03:37:18 - 41 - 41 03:48:34 - 42 - 42 04:09:15 - 43 - 43 Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story :Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of detectives led by Inspector Gévrol. The squad runs up to it. A triple murder has just been committed. The murderer is caught on the premises.Despite Gévrol's opinion that four scoundrels encountered each other in this vile den, that they began to quarrel, that one of them had a revolver and killed the others, Lecoq, a young police agent, suspects a great mystery.He will lead his investigation until he gets to the bottom of it. The story takes us in the dark times of France after the Revolution and in the Terror, and finds its roots in a story of love and power. (Summary by Ezwa, expanded by Nadine) More information: http://librivox.org/monsieur-lecoq-part-1-the-inquiry-by-emile-gaboriau/