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Solution

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Clark Ashton Smith


In Ebony and Crystal

As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…

The Need

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edgar A. Guest


In All That Matters

A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherh…

October

Read by Larry Wilson


Various


In Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 4, October 1898

"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

About the Author

Read by Larry Wilson


Robert W. Service


In Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…

Selected excerpts from Antar

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Unknown


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02

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 Wilson

Read by Tony Addison


Edgar Allan Poe


In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 (version 2)

An eclectic, catholic even, collection from the exquisitely excellent tale-telling of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Hilarious and terrifying. Need…

68. Ararat

Read by Larry Wilson


Gilbert Parker


In A Lover's Diary

A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…

Reader's Corner

Read by Larry Wilson


various and Ray Cummings


In Astounding Stories 04, April 1930

The fourth issue of Astounding Stories continues Ray Cummings serial "Brigands of the Moon", along with pulp sci-fi stories by Cap…

The Oregon Junco

Read by Larry Wilson


Various


In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900

"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …

Instruction

Read by Larry Wilson


Various


In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…

1-6 Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

The Evening Paper

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


In The Man with the Black Feather

Theophrastus Longuet is a retired manufacturer of rubber stamps in Paris. He now spends his days relaxing, safe from life’s vicissitudes. wi…

Aftword

Read by Larry Wilson


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…

Redemption

Read by Larry Wilson


George Herbert


In The Temple

George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…

Ashley's 'American History'

Read by Larry Wilson


Various


In The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 5, January 1910

"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geogr…

Adrian

Read by Graham Redman


Saki


In The Chronicles of Clovis

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…

Will

Read by Larry Wilson


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


In Maud, and Other Poems

A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…

For A Child

Read by Larry Wilson


Shaw Neilson


In Heart of Spring

John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…

Introduction

Read by Larry Wilson


Arthur M. Winfield


In The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch

This is the sixth book in “The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans,” there having been twenty books in the first series. We are now…

Inspiration

Read by Larry Wilson


Henry David Thoreau


In Poems of Nature

The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

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