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Mary Lyth
Read by Lynne T
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 13. MRS. WALKER'S VISIT
Read by Courtney Miller
Fergus Hume
In The Amethyst Cross
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…
Carol
Read by Larry Wilson
Ivor Gurney
In Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
From A Coffin
Read by cadwallader
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…
Bill Bailey
Read by David Wales
John Hay Beith
In The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Fo…
These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded&qu…
Part 1
Read by Ben Tucker
Henry Farrell
In Toffee Haunts a Ghost
Having Toffee the "dream-girl" around was bad enough for Marc, but a ghost named George was just too much. - Summary by Fantastic …
17 - The Reckoning
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
Introducing The Little Tea Book
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Arthur Gray
In The Little Tea Book
After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their …
X. To Poesy
Read by Larry Wilson
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
In The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1
The English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton in Bristol and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He later studied medicine at…
Jeduthan Hawley
Read by frankjf
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…
Mr. Braddy's Bottle
Read by Rita Boutros
Richard Connell
In The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.
Elsie and the Rooks
Read by Dawn Sutton
Victor Bridges
In The Cruise of the "Scandal", and other stories
Collection of short stories by prolific British fantasy writer, Victor Bridges. Stories include A Bit of Old Chelsea and The Bronze-Haired G…
A Family Row
Read by Molly Murphy
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 …
On the Duchess of Grafton
Read by Arthur Krolman
Anne Killigrew
In Poems (1686)
These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London -- only 70 yea…
Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
16 - FROM THE CABBY'S SEAT
Read by Debra
O. Henry
In The Four Million (Version 2)
The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry origi…
Her Choice
Read by Thomhand
O. Henry
In O. Henry Encore
These 45 early stories, sketches and poems by the famed O. Henry, nearly all published under the pseudonym of the "Post Man", were…
A Derry On A Cove
Read by Chris Greaves
Henry Lawson
In Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
Monadnock in Early Spring
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
The Tailor of Gloucester
Read by Maria Kasper
Beatrix Potter
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2019
2019 collection of items with a Christmas theme containing traditional stories, Christmas traditions, Christmas cakes. We hope you will enj…