Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas. Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title...

This is truly a delightful compilation of some of the best known and loved passages from William Shakespeare's plays. Most readers would be familiar with all or at least some of...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from Loves Labours Lost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 27th,...

This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not included in the book Stalky & Co. Of these...

Shakespeares Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics,...

In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Fidele by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 18th, 2010.

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeares late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winters Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain,...

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian...

Shakespeare was passionately interested in the history of Rome, as is evident from plays like Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. His tragedy Coriolanus was...