Performance Talk podcasts discuss various topics centered around physical performance improvement for sports and human movement. Our guests are well-known professionals, both in...

This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient. Returning to his patrimony with a retinue...

As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had...

As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had...

The legend of Don Juan is one that's been told and retold over the centuries by poets and novelists. His life has been the subject of operas, musicals and film. The earliest...

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 26th, 2006.

Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during...

David Gordon Green and actor Nicolas Cage talk with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone about their new film, Joe. In the movie, Cage plays Joe Ransom, an ex-con and unlikely role...

Published in 1838, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Poes only complete novel and concentrates on several sea adventures gone awry. The novel follows Arthur...

In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict...