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A Precept
Read by MaryAnn
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-…
Show the Clothes
Read by Ellen Morris Prewitt
Ellen Morris Prewitt
In Cain't Do Nothing With Love
Love is connecting with the man in the maroon Bonneville who killed your Big Naked Guy. Love is responding to grief by inviting the Devil in…
Part I, Segment I
Read by Newgatenovelist
Ellen Craft
In Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…
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 …
Poor Ellen
Read by Dave Wills
George W. M. Reynolds
In The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46…
The Choosing of Esther
Read by Nemo
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Ellen Grows Alarmed
Read by KHand
H. Rider Haggard
In Joan Haste
A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard's most poignant love stories. Joan Haste, a beautiful but illegitimate woman whose mother …
Kitty by Mrs. E. Prentiss
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Kenneth Grahame
In The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too…
Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy
Read by Heidi Preuss
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer
In Edison, His Life and Inventions
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…
Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg
L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery
In Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can…
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…
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…
Morris and The Honorable Tim
Read by Bellona Times
Myra Kelly
In 1903 Collection
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
LIFE - by Griffith Alexander
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Various
In It Can Be Done
This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubl…
A Word of Explanation
Read by Matthew McNaughton
Edith Eudora Kohl
In Land of the Burnt Thigh
"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months…
The Letters
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
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…
Myra
Read by MaryAnn
David Whitelaw
In The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London
A journalist just back from a year covering the simmering, not-yet-revolution in Russia, a dissident (or is he a spy?) with a stolen gem, a …
Ellen
Read by Anne Fletcher
Mary Russell Mitford
In Our Village, Volume 1
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…
Ken
Read by MichaelMaggs
Charlotte Mew
In The Farmer's Bride (Version 2)
A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminari…