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Read by Arthur Krolman
Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert
In Windfall and Waterdrift
This little square book, the colour of meadow forget-me-nots, is so modest and simple that it may very easily be passed over in a period whi…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Ill
Read by Meg Bernardo
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
David's Lament for Jonathan
Read by Jay Wright
Mary Hannay Foott
In Morna Lee, and Other Poems
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Edwin
Read by NoelBadrian
Jefferys Taylor
In Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …
Cambridge
Read by Jude
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…
II: Ære Perennius
Read by Ellies
Geoffrey Bache Smith
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
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…
21 Van Part 2
Read by David Wales
Charles King
In Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer…
Bibliographical Note
Read by David Wales
Charles Dickens
In Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'
Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stori…
Bill Bailey
Read by David Wales
John Hay Beith
In The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Forces
These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded&qu…
The Curate of Poltons
Read by elibishop
Anthony Hope
In Comedies of Courtship
A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton
France
Read by dc
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
15 - Baylor's Mail
Read by Phil Chenevert
Joel Harris and Joel Chandler Harris
In The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…
Mr. Nix
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
In The Thirteen Travelers
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
French Books by J. Middleton Murry
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In The Blue Review, Number 1
The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…
In the Home Stretch
Read by Mister Lukey
Robert Frost
In Mountain Interval (version 2)
Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published b…
Bush Scene
Read by Alan Mapstone
Shaw Neilson
In Heart of Spring
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
Notice
Read by Joel Kindrick
Thomas Jefferson
In Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I
This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Rando…
The History of Britain
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…