Dramatic Readings

The Princess and the Goblin (Dramatic Reading)

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George MacDonald


The story of a Princess named Irene, and her adventure with a boy named Curdie Peterson. Princess Irene meets her grandmother, and Irene wan…

1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

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Mark Twain


Please note: this recording contains strong language."1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes …

The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Alessandro Manzoni


One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and…

The Royal Book of Oz (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


When the professor decides to outline the ancestry of the eminent people of Oz, Scarecrow feels left out. He doesn't have a family tree - un…

Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading)

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Frances Browne


Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book …

Just So Stories (version 6 Dramatic Reading)

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Rudyard Kipling


The Just So Stories generally have the theme of a particular animal being altered from an original form to its current form by the acts of h…

Strange Pages from Family Papers

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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer


“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

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Henry Fielding


An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…

Highacres (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane D. Abbott


The story of a young mountain girl and her first year of city living and going to a high school. She knows nothing of town life, but she had…

Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading)

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Rupert Hughes


What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. O…

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…

The Curse of Capistrano (Dramatic Reading)

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Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley


The Curse of Capistrano is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (the Spanish word for "fox"). The story was lat…

Michael Strogoff (Dramatic Reading)

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Jules Verne


At a fete in the New Palace, the court seems to be in perfect order. Only two people know the truth: the telegraph wire beyond Tomsk, connec…

The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Maria Thompson Daviess


Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and…

Julius Caesar (version 2)

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William Shakespeare


When Julius Caesar returns to Rome from conquering the Gauls, Cassius and his friends are worried that he will try to seize power and make h…

What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading)

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Susan Coolidge


Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Ka…

Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading)

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Alexandre Dumas


Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dum…

Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading)

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Colette


Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in …

The String of Pearls (dramatic reading)

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Unknown


Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett…

Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many …

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