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Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole



A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Benighted

Read by Ben Tucker


John Boynton Priestley



Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…

The Talking Gentleman

Read by Anne Fletcher


Mary Russell Mitford


In Our Village, Volume 1

This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…

Episode 11

Read by Dave Cornford


Dave Cornford


In Guys Can Read

GUYS can read? Hell yeah, and they can listen too. You'll love the eight stories in this collection because they each have something about …

Time

Read by Mark Stansbury


George Herbert


In The Temple

George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…

Miss Morganhurst

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…

Mummery

Read by David Hinson


Thomas Beer


In O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

In 1918 the Society of Arts and Sciences established the O. Henry Memorial Awards to reward the very best short stories published during the…

Eadem

Read by Julian Pratley


Joyce Kilmer


In Summer of Love

Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…

Islington

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Paul Bewsher


In The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator

Paul Bewsher writes poems of a wartime aviator from his heart and soul. His heart longs for an end to the perils of war and the forced destr…

Mad Poll

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


William Henry Davies


In Foliage: Various Poems

W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one …

Not Exceeding £5

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. Nesbit


In Something Wrong

A small collection of Edith Nesbit's short stories; the pleasures and troubles of life laid out in a few pages.Note: The title of the third …

29 - Reform Through Reading

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)


Heywood Broun


In Seeing Things at Night

Seeing Things at Night is a delightful collection of humorous short stories by Heywood Broun that captures the absurdities of everyday life.…

Selected excerpts

Read by Alan Weyman


Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and William Beckford


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

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…

To the Reader

Read by MaryAnn


Charlotte Elliott


In Hours of Sorrow

Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…

Maggie Tulliver

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…

Wales

Read by Kerry Adams


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…

Reading a Letter

Read by Bruce Kachuk


D. H. Lawrence


In New Poems

This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…

Story 1 The Dwarf's Chamber: 2 A Family Legend

Read by David Wales


Fergus Hume


In The Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories

Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

From Letters

Read by Cbteddy


George MacDonald and Sir Philip Sidney


In A Cabinet of Gems

A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…

Ah! yet consider it again!

Read by Newgatenovelist


Arthur Hugh Clough


In Selected Poems

During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social in…

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