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"Belgium," Lester B. Granger
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Ripening Rubies, The
Read by David Wales
Max Pemberton and Sir Max Pemberton
In The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…
THE LOSS OF THE "BIRKENHEAD." SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE
Read by czandra
Various
In Successful Recitations
A compilation of poetry designed for performance. This compilation focuses on the art of recitation, highlighting the importance of clarity,…
NEXT TO READING MATTER
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson, Variousandcharles William Eliot and Various And Charles William Eliot
In Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…
Selected excerpts by William Drummond of Hawthornden
Read by Bill Mosley
Various
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
WILLIAM H. A. MOORE
Read by Kahlil B
James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
In The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, …
I Understand
Read by Newgatenovelist
Edythe Mae Gordon
In Selected Poems (Gordon)
Edythe Mae Gordon was a poet and short story author who published in The Saturday Evening Quill. These poems were published in 1929. (Summar…
Letter 3 The Vicar, The Curate, &c
Read by David Wales
George Crabbe
In The Borough
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
III. A pack of cards: Part 2
Read by Sonia
Richard Marsh
In The Seen and the Unseen
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a …
When the Minister Calls
Read by Stan Hargrove
Edgar A. Guest
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
The Two Questions
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
In the Pasha's Garden
Read by Arie
H. G. Dwight
In Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
This book, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, is a collection of 23 "modern short stories", written by various autho…
What was He ? Chapter I. The First Time
Read by Sonia
Theo Gift
In Not for the Night-Time
Dorothy Boulger (1847-1923), who wrote under the pen-name Theo Gift, assembled four original short stories of supernatural and unsettling ha…
Felix Schmidt
Read by Betsie Bush
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
Read by Michael Dalling
Samuel Johnson
In Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…
Litany by Sir Robert Grant
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…