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Book 2, Chapter 5, Part 2
Read by Courtney Miller
Catherine Carswell
In Open The Door
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…
Coming-Out of Maggie, The
Read by Marian Brown
O. Henry
In The Four Million
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…
To a Brown Girl
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…
03 - Rebecca's Thought Book
Read by Mary Anderson
Kate Douglas Wiggin
In New Chronicles of Rebecca
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro.
Something to Think About
Read by Laura Victoria
Anna Katharine Green
In One of My Sons
A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry …
Letters 29-31
Read by Availle
William Hill Brown
In The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth
The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of t…
Pictures
Read by Stephanie Kydd
Katherine Mansfield
In Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1
Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…
Part II - Chapter XI
Read by Emma Charlotte
Wilkie Collins
In My Lady's Money
Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…
To Nobility- Part One
Read by KHand
Mary Elizabeth Brown
In Dedications
Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…
RUSSALKA
Read by Emma Charlotte
Maurice Baring
In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
Chapter 3
Read by Rich Brown
Carey Rockwell
In Treachery in Outer Space
The sixth book in the Grosset & Dunlap "Tom Corbett - Space Cadet" series. Shipmates Tom, Astro, and Roger are assigned to ove…
The Dangers of the Present - Henry Armitt Brown
Read by Gloria Loughry
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 2
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Chapter 26, part 2
Read by Marty Kris
Ann Radcliffe
In The Italian
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…
The Brownies - Julians Horatia Ewing
Read by Deborah Knight
Various
In Grandma Knight's Tales
Grandma Knight's Tales* includes stories that provide entertainment and, hopefully, some moral learning to small listeners. A special dedica…
Introductory Note
Read by Rob Marland
Katherine Mansfield
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
Introductory Note
Read by Rob Marland
Katherine Mansfield
In The Doves' Nest and Other Stories
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a collection of complete stories and fragments by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The book was publishe…
Sarah Brown
Read by Claire Goget
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…