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Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


William Westgarth


Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at…

Camp-Fire Girls at Twin Lakes or The Quest of a Summer Vacation

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Stella M. Francis


“Girls, I have some great news for you. I’m sure you’ll be interested, and I hope you’ll be as delighted as I am. Come on, all of you. Gathe…

Sisters

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Ada Cambridge


Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recogni…

The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams


Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her …

Old John Jamieson

In Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


George MacDonald


George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and the Princess and the Goblin…

6-03 Part Sixth - Chapter 3

In Jude the Obscure

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Thomas Hardy


Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

An Old Mate of Your Fathers

In Short Story Collection Vol. 009

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Henry Lawson


Librivox’s Short Story Collection 009: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox member…

Wendy's Story

In Peter Pan

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


J. M. Barrie


Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fa…

Chapter XXII: Other People's Notions

In The Paradise Mystery

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


J.S. Fletcher and J. S. Fletcher


A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery.…

Tit for Tat

In West African Folk Tales

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


William H. Barker


A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …

Chapter 22

In Middlemarch

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


George Eliot


The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

22 - Crossing the Line

In Sylvie and Bruno

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Lewis Carroll


The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…

Chapter XVI

In The Clue of the Twisted Candle

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Edgar Wallace


Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scot…

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