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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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Stephen Leacock


Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…

Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus


The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around…

Told in the Coffee House

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Cyrus Adler


In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are u…

The Emperor of Portugallia

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf


Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

The Untempered Wind

Read by Bruce Pirie


Joanna E. Wood


Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …

The Hundred Best English Poems

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Various


This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpiec…

De Consolatione Philosophiae

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Studies of Death

Read by Ben Tucker


Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock


Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock was an eccentric character to say the least. Maintaining a veritable zoo on his estate populated with the lik…

Aus 40 - Passage Of The Tangmar



A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 40 The cargo ship Tangmar departs Sydney, destination Jamaica, with a small party of passengers, stran…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works, individually chosen by the readers. "The ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled wa…

Tim Bowling The Paperboy's Winter 2003



Tim Bowling The Paperboy's Winter 2003 Callum Taylor has reached a critical point in his life. Since the death of his beloved father, he has…

The Resurrection of Miss Pym


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Afternoon Play: The Resurrection of Miss Pym Tue 11th Feb 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM The true story of novelist Barba…

Selections from Harris's Cabinet

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William Roscoe


In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…

W B. Yeats 'Sing Whatever Is Well Made'



William Butler Yeats - ‘Sing Whatever is Well Made' A radio documentary commemorating W.B. Yeats on the 50th anniversary of his death. Dubli…

Dedications

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Mary Elizabeth Brown


Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…

Seumus O’ Kelly The Weaver’s Grave



Drama on One: The Weaver’s Grave   RTÉ Radio 1   First TX: March 1961   By Seumus O’Kelly In memory of actor Thomas St…

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Gerald Bullett


Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

Babcock

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Joe Cottonwood


A fat boy with the blues. A skinny girl who runs marathons. And a con man on the lam. If you liked Clear Heart, or if you liked Boone Bar…

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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Mary Shelley


Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…

Dead Souls

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

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