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25 - The Seminary
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Stendhal
In The Red and the Black, Volume I
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…
Introductory
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
In With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Chapter XXI Part 1
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
Letter V: A pastoral letter
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Lady Mary Anne Barker and Mary Anne Barker
In Station Life in New Zealand
Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) tha…
04 - Godfrey Wardour
Read by bobolink
George MacDonald
In Mary Marston
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…
Chapters 58 through Epilogue
Read by Tom Weiss
Gilbert Parker
In The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of…
The New Timon and the Poets
Read by Foon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…
Chapter 1.13, Part 2
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt
In Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…
In 1799, with extensive travel permissions from the Spanish government, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland departe…
Pauline Barrett
Read by Bellona Times
Edgar Lee Masters
In 37 American Poems
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD wor…
A Confirmed Spinster
Read by Sandra Cullum
J. M. Barrie
In The Little White Bird
"A children's book, sharp social commentary and sad psychological thriller about a man's search for a sense of belonging. All in one am…
Widow Townsend's Visitor
Read by Glennie Junkin
Charles Dickens
In A Budget of Christmas Tales
This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent f…
Section 5
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Enoch Arden
In the poem "Enoch Arden," Tennyson's epic narrative of the enduring power of love in the face of insurmountable odds, is found a …
Chapter IV
Read by Tim Rowe
Algernon Blackwood
In A Prisoner In Fairyland (The Book that 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
In his earlier novel (audiobook available),The Education of Uncle Paul The Education of Uncle Paul, Algernon alludes to a book Uncle Paul wa…
Chapter 3 The Peevish Printer
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John Rae
In New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
Story 2 Miss Jonathan
Read by David Wales
Fergus Hume
In The Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories
Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia
CHAPTER 13. MRS. WALKER'S VISIT
Read by Courtney Miller
Fergus Hume
In The Amethyst Cross
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
Maggie Tulliver
Read by Alan Mapstone
Shaw Neilson
In Heart of Spring
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
The Mad Fiddler
Read by Andrew Gaunce
Joyce Kilmer
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Langemarc
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Duncan M. Matheson
In Poems
Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adver…