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Phèdre

In Poems, 1914-1919

Read by Jonathan Paul Arnold


Maurice Baring


This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly…

Lost Hearts

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030

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M. R. James


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

February

In Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 2, February 1901

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Various


"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories a…

The Brown man of the Moors

In Folk-lore and legends: English

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Charles John Tibbits


The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is be…

The Tree Sparrow

In Birds and Nature, Vol. X, No 3, October 1901

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Various


"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes…

At a Country House

In The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

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Anton Chekhov


Volume 8 of a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The selection includes The Chorus Girl, A Gentleman Friend and A father, among …

Christmas at Thompson Hall

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Anthony Trollope


"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor i…

Ralph the Heir

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Anthony Trollope


As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the i…

Marion Fay

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Anthony Trollope


Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …

Snarleyyow

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Frederick Marryat


This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat h…

The Two Heroines of Plumplington

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Anthony Trollope


In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the…