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05 - A Negotiation
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Stendhal
In The Red and the Black, Volume I
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…
01 - A Dreamer
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Barbara Baynton
In Bush Studies
Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for w…
How Kirsty Fared
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
In Heather and Snow
Set in the barren lowlands of Scotland with a small cast of characters, both lives and landscape are vividly portrayed and masterfully inter…
The Largest Circulation
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In If I May (Version 2)
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
Chapter 6: The Writer's Story
Read by Kirsten Wever
Sapper
In The Dinner Club
Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…
Chapter 4
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In Once A Week (Version 2)
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …
CHAPTER XXVII: THE TRUE STORY OF KISHINEFF
Read by Al Miran
Magaretta Eagar
In Six Years at the Russian Court
From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…
Chapter 15
Read by Harley James
Fritz Leiber
In The Green Millennium
From the classic science-fiction and fantasy author Fritz Leiber comes this intriguing tale of a green cat. From the author's introduction:…
Christopherson
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Gissing
In The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
12 - The Favourite of the Fates
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Lilian Gask
In The Fairies and the Christmas Child
The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman…
Chapter 4 - Two Stories
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In The Holiday Round
Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…
Kelpie's Airing
Read by Devorah Allen
George MacDonald
In The Marquis of Lossie
This book is the sequel to Malcolm.Having now learned the truth of his own parentage, and some important facts regarding the birth of his la…
My Library
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In Not That it Matters (Version 2)
A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…
Chapter 1
Read by Kirsten Wever
Anthony Trollope
In The Belton Estate
Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other th…
In the Moskkommune
Read by KalenXI
Alexander Berkman
In The Bolshevik Myth
The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 19…
Chapter 18 - Guess-work
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In The Red House Mystery (Version 2)
Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, h…
Sappers
Read by Alan Mapstone
Rudyard Kipling
In Barrack-Room Ballads
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…
Chapter LV
Read by Hanna Ponomarenko
Henryk Sienkiewicz
In The Deluge Volume 2
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…
Chapter 2: Old Man Minick, Part 1
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edna Ferber
In Gigolo
Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…
Borrowed Scenes
Read by Josh Kirsh
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Danger! and Other Stories
This is a volume of short stories by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle. - Summary by Carolin