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16 - The Passing of Olivia
Read by Eric Leach
Meredith Nicholson
In The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2)
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference t…
The Passing of Olivia
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Meredith Nicholson
In The House of a Thousand Candles
A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…
The Victoria Cross
Suspense
In MurderMostBritish OTR Favorites Vol. 1
A collection of old-time radio shows and dramatizations I've collected together which are British mysteries, thrillers and suspense, most of…
Chapter IV. At The Crossing
Read by Marie Christian
Alice B. Emerson
In Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm
Betty Gordon found herself an orphan at age twelve. She became the ward of her uncle, Richard Gordon. She immediately came to love her uncle…
Olivia de Castro
Read by Kate Follis
Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 06
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Olivia
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Neil Munro
In Doom Castle
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite c…
11 - A Newly-Shaped Cross
Read by TriciaG
Pansy aka Isabella Alden and Pansy
In Ruth Erskine's Crosses
Third book in the Chautauqua Girls series. Written by Isabella Alden under the pseudonym Pansy.
Two Who Crossed a Line (She Crosses)
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
The Sign of The Cross
Read by KevinS
Margaret Vandercook
In The Red Cross Girls with the Italian Army
The adventures of the Red Cross girls continue! These courageous women of the First World War now visit the Italian Front and face all chall…
The Maple
Read by Abby
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…
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…
The Victoria Cross
Read by Wayne Cooke
Henry Augustus Hering
In The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles
'He's one of us,' the burglar explained. 'You see, we are men who have pretty well exhausted the pleasures of life. We've all been in the Ar…
The Other Side
Read by Ellies
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
Chap. X.—Breakfast on board the Isabel
Read by Scarlett Martin
William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
In Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Advent
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Christina Rossetti
In Goblin Market and Other Poems
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …
Chapter XIX
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
The Crosse
Read by Suzanne Carol
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…
Parables of the Cross
Read by adamegan
Isabella Lilias Trotter
In Parables of the Cross
Death is the Gate of Life. There was deep insight in those old words. For man's natural thought of death is that of a dreary ending in deca…
CHAPTER V - To the Rescue, part 2.
Read by mgomez1
Olivia Rossetti Agresti and Helen Rossetti Angeli
In A Girl Among the Anarchists
Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist…