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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Read by Cori Samuel


Mary Seacole


I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

Tender Buttons

Read by Cori Samuel


Gertrude Stein


"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…

A Christmas Carol (version 07)

Read by Cori Samuel


Charles Dickens


The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…

The Story of a Candy Rabbit

Read by Cori Samuel


Laura Lee Hope


The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

Read by Cori Samuel


Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

The Soul of London

Read by Cori Samuel


Ford Madox Ford


'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

To The Lighthouse

Read by Cori Samuel


Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Orlando

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Virginia Woolf


A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

The Tower Treasure (version 5)

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Franklin W. Dixon


The Hardy boys begin their first case as sons of a famous detectives tracking down a jewel thief. - Summary by SamuelDGraham

Crucifixions and Other Fictions

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Mina Samuels


In sparing prose, this collection of 15 short stories explores the search for identity, a place to belong and the inevitability of loss. In …

14 - The Castle of Bragelonne.

In Twenty Years After

Read by Cori Samuel


Alexandre Dumas


Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers.

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto I - Canto V

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Cori Samuel


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Why the Dream Disguises the Desires

In Dream Psychology

Read by Cori Samuel


Sigmund Freud


Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…

Preserves, Jellies, &c.;

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Read by Cori Samuel


Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

Version 3

In Danse Russe

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William Carlos Williams


Williams spent his life as a doctor practicing pediatric medicine in northern New Jersey, a few miles west of New York City. During the work…

Chapter V, Part 16

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

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