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Read by Gillian Hendrie
Jennie Hall
In Viking Tales (Version 2)
The story follows the life of the Viking Harald from infancy to his crowning as King of Norway. It focuses on the Vikings' eagerness for adv…
Section 4
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Various
In A Little Garland of Christmas Verse
A collection of Christmas carols and poems. (Summary by Gillian Hendrie)
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Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
In London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.This vo…
Chapter 8: Woman defended
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Charles N. Queen
In Why Are So Few Men in the Churches? And Remedies
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…
Chapter 18: THE MORNING AFTER
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
In Green Valley
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out…
Lydia Part 1
Read by Gillian Hendrie
William Jay
In Lectures on Female Scripture Characters
I began to look over sundry of my old manuscripts... [and] among them I found a number of lectures which I had delivered more than forty-eig…
Young Gilly Flowers
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
In Mary Anerley
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
Chapter I Part 2
Read by Nancy Halper
Alice Duer Miller
In The Priceless Pearl
Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …
Chapter 31
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Frances Hodgson Burnett
In T. Tembarom
The story of a Boy living in New York as a street waif, who sells newspapers eventually finds himself to be the heir of an ancient manor. Th…
Among the Heathen
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Frederic Farrar and Frederic W. Farrar
In The Life of Christ
The author, Frederic W. Farrar, was a Doctor of Divinity, and Fellow of the Royal Society, and at the time of publication of this edition, a…
Chapter XXVII
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
The popular error
Read by Gillian Hendrie
G. A. Mclaughlin
In A Clean Heart
"Much of the preaching and teaching of religion is in a theological dialect that is scarcely more intelligible to the people than a for…
The Watson Touch
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…
Chapter XIX
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…
Zeno
Read by Gillian Hendrie
François Fénelon
In The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers
François Fénelon became a priest in 1675, Archbishop of Paris in 1679, was spiritual advisor to Madame Guyon, and was appointe…
The Author to the Reader
Read by Gillian Hendrie
John Brown
In Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
It is, beloved, high time now to awake, to look about us, to consider where we are, upon what ground we stand, whether the enemy or we have …
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 4
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
In London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Now, or To-Morrow
Read by Gillian Hendrie
William Arnot
In Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth
These illustrations of the Proverbs are not critical, continuous, exhaustive. The comments, in imitation of the text, are intended to be bri…
Chapter XXVII
Read by Jules Hawryluk
Baroness Emma Orczy
In Unto Caesar
"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei fo…