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Sonnet XIX - 'No More But So?'

In Early Poems

Read by Emily Sullivan


James Russell Lowell


This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

Song of the Broad-Axe, 4th stanza - Read by ES

In Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

Read by Emily Sullivan


Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

The Whippoorwill

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 1, January 1899

Read by Emily Sullivan


Various


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

Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)

Read by Shannon Sullivan


Sylvia Townsend Warner


Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …

The Crown Conspiracy

Read by Michael J. Sullivan


Michael J. Sullivan


They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly. There's no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, jus…

The Shepherd of the Hills

Read by Emily Jarmard


Harold Bell Wright


The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills…

The City of Fire

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


Home from college, Lynn is heartbroken to find her childhood friend Mark, has fallen away from his faith in God. After making some poor life…

Not Under The Law

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


After both of Joyce's parents passed away, her beloved aunt raised her. But when her aunt gets sick and dies, Joyce's world turns upside dow…

Lucretia Borgia

Read by Emily Maynard


Ferdinand Gregorovius


According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this beca…

Bulbs and Blossoms

Read by Emily Isabella


Amy Le Feuvre


Two young children, recently arrived back in England from India, discover their aunt's old gardener, and together they explore the beautiful…

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


Emily Kathleen Cooke


November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


Emily Kathleen Cooke


November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…

Icarus; or, The Future of Science

Read by S. Emily Lee


Bertrand Russell


In this short book, Russell speculates on the effect of the progress of science in the future in a vast array of subjects, ranging from phys…

95 - Epilogue Chapter 2 - For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth

In The Brothers Karamazov

Read by Nikki Sullivan


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …

Holding Down a Homestead, by H. W. Phillips

In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 12 September 1898

Read by Shannon Sullivan


Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718

In American Leaders and Heroes

Read by B.T. Sullivan


Wilbur F. Gordy


Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, includin…

08 - The Room and Billy

In Miss Billy

Read by Kathy Sullivan


Eleanor H. Porter


Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, …