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Nikolaas Nickleby
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Dit is het verhaal van Nikolaas Nickleby en zijn zuster Kate die na het sterven van hun vader steun zoeken bij de broer van hun vader. In di…
Chapter 42: Is He a Danton?
Read by Peter Dann
Stendhal
In The Red and the Black
It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…
Book 1, Chapter 2: Danton
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
In The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine
Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…
Additional Note
Read by DaveWindell
Sir Walter Scott
In Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer
Guy Mannering is a young astrologer, just down from Oxford. While travelling in Scotland, he loses his way and unexpectedly comes to stay at…
The Red Etin
Read by Scott Mather
Andrew Lang
In The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…
Red-Head
Read by KevinS
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Paddy Muskrat
Enter Pleasant Valley, the home of the interesting and entertaining creatures and adventures born of American author Arthur Scott Bailey. Th…
Janie Scott
Read by Rebecca Eden Walker
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
To You Who Read My Book
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
NEXT TO READING MATTER
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Bk 5: Ch 1 - 4
Read by Peter Dann
Henry Fielding
In The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
Dan is Discovered
Read by DaleBarkley
Horatio Alger, Jr.
In Dan, the Newsboy
Dan and his mother are poor, so he begins selling newspapers on the streets of New York City. His perseverance, hard work, and honesty are q…
II. The Turning Up of Dan Baxter
Read by VfkaBT
Arthur M. Winfield
In The Rover Boys on Land and Sea
The Boys are off on another series of adventures, beginning in San Francisco, where a run in with arch-enemy Dan Baxter leads them into the …
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wor…
Read by Tomas Peter
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…
Chapter XV: The Guide
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
In Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is a historical novel set in the mid-1400's. The main character is a Scottish archer serving French King Louis XI, another m…
Chapters 24-26
Read by Scotty Smith
Carl Sandburg
In Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1
A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…
To the Dandelion
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
VI
Read by Scotty Smith
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In The Great Gatsby (Version 3)
A novel set in the roaring 20's follows Nick Carroway, a young, single veteran turned bond salesman as he is thrust into the high society of…
A Dill Pickle
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
In Bliss, and Other Stories
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Chapter 24 part 2
Read by Peter Dann
Austen Layard
In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…
Chapter 30
Read by Peter Dann
George Borrow
In The Romany Rye
"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …