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The Singing Master

In Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Read by Cori Samuel

Susanna Moodie

As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

Book Two, Part 2

In Paradise Lost

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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…

THE PARLEY

In The Island of Doctor Moreau

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H. G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature…

Chapter VI, Part 14

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06)

Read by Cori Samuel

Thomas Babington Macaulay

This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus…

Prologue

In The Phantom of the Opera

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Gaston Leroux

An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

Chapter 07

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

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