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Christopherson
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Gissing
In The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
Signs of Character
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In Not That it Matters (Version 2)
A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…
Experts
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In If I May (Version 2)
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
Nativity
Read by Newgatenovelist
Gladys Casely-Hayford
In Selected Poems
Gladys Casely-Hayford was an author and educator who was born in the Gold Coast and lived in Sierra Leone. These poems were published betwee…
Nettie's Visit
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
In Sidney Martin's Christmas (and Other Stories)
Sixty-two short pieces, many/most of them originally published in The Pansy, a magazine for children. The topics are many and varied, but mo…
Sîta
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Toru Dutt
In Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
Toru Dutt was an Indian poet, writing in English. Born in 1856, she travelled to England and France, and being a polyglot became fluent in F…
The Star
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
H. G. Wells
In The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds". The science fiction …
Merrymind
Read by Adrian Stephens
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Tansen
Read by Jessie Percival
Gwendoline Goodwin
In Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. "…
Chapter 3, Part 3
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In Once A Week (Version 2)
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …
Wail
Read by Chris Archer
Dorothy Parker
In Enough Rope
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…
The Starling
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
Lachesis
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Inamorata
Read by Nemo
Francis Ledwidge
In The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World W…
Ianthe
Read by Eliza Winters
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
Bluebird
Read by Newgatenovelist
Effie Lee Newsome
In Selected Poems
Effie Lee Newsome was a poet from Philadelphia who was also the editor of ‘The Little Page’, a column for children in The Crisis. These poem…
Chapter 3 - At Play
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In The Holiday Round
Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…
Part 2
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
In The Indiscreet Letter
In The Indiscreet Letter, three strangers find themselves sharing a train compartment, where a seemingly innocuous topic sparks a lively con…
The Philanthropist's Christmas
Read by Nathalie J.
James Weber Linn
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…
Red Mark
Read by Anthony Ogus
Israel Zangwill
In Ghetto Comedies
A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…