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Prince Silverwings and Other Fairy Tales

Read by Steven Fellows


Edith Ogden Harrison


Edith Ogden Harrison's first published work, Prince Silverwings, is a collection of seven fairy tales for young readers. It is perhaps best …

Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America

Read by Steven Seitel


Richard Harding Davis


In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…

Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

Read by Steven Fellows


Mary Esther Miller Macgregor


Dear Denis,—Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure o…

In the Wake of the Buccaneers

Read by Steven Seitel


Alpheus Hyatt Verrill


Ah, the Buccaneers... “We hear much of the bold, wild ways of these adventurers; Perchance it is the fact that we all appreciate bravery—and…

The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known

Read by Steven Seitel


Joseph Jacobs


This book was first published in 1897. It's a short work, but it encompasses a vast subject—nothing less than determining the detailed geogr…

Around the Wicket Gate (Version 2)

Read by Steven Warner


Charles H. Spurgeon


Millions of men are in the outlying regions, far off from God and peace; for these we pray, and to these we give warning. But just now we ha…

Chapter 144

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest


This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…

Pride and Humility

In Ninety-nine Homilies of St. Thomas Aquinas upon the Epistles and Gospels

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Saint Thomas Aquinas


The Homilies of the great "Angelical Doctor" are but outlines, the filling in of which are left to the preacher's own judgment and…

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter VIII: To the Indies Northward - English, French, Dutch and Russian Rout…

In The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known, Version 2

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Joseph Jacobs


From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…

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In The Education of Uncle Paul

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Algernon Blackwood


Published in 1909, this novel tells the story of Paul Waters, who returns to England, his family and responsibility after living in the Cana…

Badge of Infamy

Read by Steven H. Wilson


Lester Del Rey


Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he's a pariah, shu…

Unfriendly Persuasion - A Tale from the Arbiter Chronicles

Read by Steven H. Wilson


Steven H. Wilson


"Everything Is Going To Be All Right..." That's what Lieutenant Terry Metcalfe keeps telling his friends and co-workers. A hero to…

Peace Lord of the Red Planet

Read by Steven H. Wilson


Steven H. Wilson


Shepherd Autrey is a Quaker, a physician, and a man deeply disturbed by the madness around him as the War Between the tates bears down on hi…

Taken Liberty - A Tale from the Arbiter Chronicles

Read by Steven H. Wilson


Steven H. Wilson


Aer'La only wants to be free... The Confederated Worlds are unparalleled as a society of free people, yet, somehow, slavery still manages t…

Taken Liberty - A Tale from the Arbiter Chronicles

Read by Steven H. Wilson


Steven H. Wilson


Aer'La only wants to be free... The Confederated Worlds are unparalleled as a society of free people, yet, somehow, slavery still manages t…

Winter of Different Directions

Read by Steven J. McDermott


Steven J. McDermott


The characters in Steven J. McDermott's short story collection Winter of Different Directions struggle to keep life's body blows and uppercu…

Prologue - Sections I-III

In The Fallen Leaves

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Wilkie Collins


Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is d…

WALTER KENNEDY, a Pirate

In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

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Arthur L. Hayward


"If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few squareyards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long co…

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