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Two Surprises for Elaine
Read by Rachel
Emily Sarah Holt
In Lady Sybil's Choice
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real…
1-5 Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…
The Owner
Read by Elaine Webb
Max Stirner
In The Ego and His Own
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…
Elaine
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Poems
This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. I…
The Weaving of the Web
Read by J. M. Smallheer
A. Maynard Barbour and Anna Maynard Barbour
In That Mainwaring Affair
As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagi…
Today
Read by Phil Benson
Geraldine Jewsbury
In Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47
'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…
Bernice Bobs Her Hair, part 2
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…
Anna
Read by Larry Wilson
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…
A Baratarian Elaine, by Henry E. Chambers
Read by valroth
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 09 June 1898
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Elaine
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Second April
A collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Chapter 06
Read by Elaine Webb
Rev Hiram Chase and Hiram Chase
In Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum
Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lu…
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
The Fiddler
Read by Sue Gill
Lucy Clifford
In Very Short Stories And Verses For Children
Very Short Stories And Verses For Children is a children's book by Lucy Clifford compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about…
Arnold Winklereid
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Baldwin
In Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…
Chloe
Read by Christie Crews
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
The Two Questions
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Helping Nancy Ellen and Robert to Establish a Home
Read by Veronica Jenkins
Gene Stratton-Porter
In A Daughter of the Land
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while …
Peter Giles to the Right Honourable Ierome Buslyde
Read by Ruth Golding
Sir Thomas More and Thomas More
In Utopia (Robinson translation)
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…
04 - Nancy
Read by Phil Benson
M. E. Francis
In In a North Country Village
M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell fami…
Ann Parker
Read by Jacqueline Burrell Walton
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…