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In A Book of Fairy Tales

Read by Sophie Owen


Sabine Baring-Gould


This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Be…

Chapter I

In The Man-Wolf

Read by Sophie Owen


Émile Erckmann


"The Man-Wolf" is a 38,000 word novella that appears in the English language collection of short stories entitled, The Man-Wolf an…

A Little Journey

In Short Science Fiction Collection 057

Read by Sophie Owen


Ray Bradbury


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Journey to the Underhill Gates

Read by P.J. Owen


P.J. Owen


Journey to the Underhill Gates is the first book in the Seeking Daylight episodic fantasy series, written for the young and the young at hea…

Heidi, une histoire pour les enfants et pour ceux qui les aiment

Read by Caroline Sophie


Johanna Spyri


Une petite fille orpheline, Heidi, est amenée par sa tante chez son grand-père qui habite isolé sur l’Alpe, loin des ho…

Book One, Part 1

In Paradise Lost

Read by Owen


John Milton


Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

CHAPTER XX. ATTACKED BY INDIANS.

In The Motor Boys Overland; or, A Long Trip for Fun and Fortune

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Clarence Young


Here we have the second volume of “The Motor Boys Series,” a line of books relating to the doings of some bright and up-to-date youths, on w…

The Boy Who Became an Archer

In Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 1

Read by Sophie


Jesse Lyman Hurlbut


Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them …

Chapter 12

In Main Street

Read by Jesse Owen


Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

Bk 2: Section VI, and Song VI: Nero's Infamy

In The Consolation of Philosophy

Read by Mark Owen


Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Introductory Note

In Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems

Read by Steve Owen


Harriet Beecher Stowe


Best known for having written "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe also wrote several religious works, including the works i…

Romulus

In Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Read by Owen Cook


Rosalie Kaufman


Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…