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Envoi
Read by mleigh
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
38 - Chapter 38: Winchelsea and Rye
Read by Peter Yearsley
E.V. Lucas and E. V. Lucas
In Highways and Byways in Sussex
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
From the Tuscan
Read by Andree-Ann Granger
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
The Readers' Corner Part 1
Read by esheffield
various and Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 10, October 1930
Issue no. 10 of the magazine brings you:- Stolen Brains by Captain S.P. MeekThe Invisible Death by Victor Rousseau Prisoners on the Electro…
Prologue
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
In The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
Prologue
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
In Simon Called Peter
Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…
Epitaph
Read by Christopher Fried
John Crowe Ransom
In Chills and Fever
This is the second poetry collection of the poet-critic John Crowe Ransom, who was a member of the Fugitives and the Agrarians.
July 8
Read by bletheringape
Wilkie Collins
In The Biter Bit
"The Biter Bit" is a humorous short story by British writer Wilkie Collins. Originally published as "Who is the Thief?"…
02 - The Reading Public
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
In Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)
Chapter 28.Stephen's Tale
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arthur Morrison
In The Hole in the Wall
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…
CHAPTER VI: CONCERNING PETERHOFF
Read by jenno
Magaretta Eagar
In Six Years at the Russian Court
From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…
The Star
Read by CalebSchroeder
H. G. Wells
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 062
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…
The Perfect Reader
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Christopher Morley
In Plum Pudding (version 2)
Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…
Chapter 26: The Home of Aeschylus
Read by phineas2000
Clare Winger Harris
In Persephone of Eleusis
A romance of Ancient Greece featuring the hero's journey and evil plotting. Will either succeed? - Summary by Christine Rottger
The Question
Read by Inkell
Stephen Phillips
In Poems
A short collection of poems by the Oxford-born poet and playwright Stephen Phillips including his two major works Marpessa and Christ In Had…
To the Reader
Read by MaryAnn
Charlotte Elliott
In Hours of Sorrow
Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…
Chapter I. Part 1
Read by Jennifer Henry
Peter Coffey
In Ontology, or the Theory of Being
The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology. - Summary by shreyasethi
Hawke
Read by Alan Mapstone
Sir Henry Newbolt
In Admirals All
A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…
Twilight
Read by Nemo
Olive Custance
In Opals
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
Revelation
Read by Nemo
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…