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In The Talking Horse And Other Stories

Read by Josh Kirsh


F. Anstey


A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range …

A Valentine (Sent to a friend..) - Read by JK

In A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll


This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Chapter 6

In A Half Century of Conflict

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley…

The Poet To Death

In The Golden Threshold

Read by Josh Kirsh


Sarojini Naidu


Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life…

Part 2 Chapter 3

In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

Twilight Voices - Read by JK

In Twilight Voices

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William Allingham


William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Borrowed Scenes

In Danger! and Other Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This is a volume of short stories by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle. - Summary by Carolin

James Monroe

In Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

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Jean S. Remy


Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…

The War And The Status Of The Jew

In The Shield

Read by Josh Kirsh


Pavel Dolgorukov


This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming…