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Read by Edith van der Have-Raats
Thomas Aquinas and Saint Thomas Aquinas
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
09 - Off for Antwerp
Read by Edith van der Have-Raats
Lucy Fitch Perkins
In The Belgian Twins
This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie…
06 - Chapters 13,14,15,16,17
Read by Edith van der Have-Raats
St. Benedict of Nursia and Saint Benedict Of Nursia
In The Rule of St. Benedict
Quote:The Rule of Saint Benedict (Regula Benedicti) is a book of precepts written by St. Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally unde…
Part 1
Read by Edith van der Have-Raats
Maria Montessori
In The Mother and the Child
"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the import…
Chapter XIII. The Netherlands by A.W. Ward (part 1)
Read by Linda Johnson
Various
In The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 01, The Renaissance
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Name of France
Read by Emily Behrmann
Henry van Dyke
In The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time
These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task.Two of the poems, "A Scrap of Pape…
From Mardrus's ‘Mille Nuits et Une Nuit’
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Chapter XIV - Mrs. Van Brandt at Home
Read by E Ogston
Wilkie Collins
In The Two Destinies
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…
The Letters
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
Raison D'Etre
Read by Eleanor Howard
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
MY NEIGHBOUR RADILOV
Read by tovarisch
Ivan Turgenev
In A Sportsman's Sketches
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collec…
Part I, Segment H
Read by Newgatenovelist
Ellen Craft
In Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…
Chapters VIII and IX
Read by Verla Viera
Frank Tilton
In Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin
The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…
Symbols
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Preface to the Second Edition
Read by Newgatenovelist
Edith Sitwell, Nancy Cunard, Arnold James, Victor Tait Perowne, Helen Rootham, Sacheverell Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Iris Tree and Henry James
In Wheels - The First Cycle
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and…