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Chapters 34,35 & 36
Read by Termin Dyan
W. Somerset Maugham
In The Moon and Sixpence
This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the mai…
Chapter XXIX - Our Destinies Part Us
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Wilkie Collins
In The Two Destinies
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…
The Soldan's Daughter
Read by Algy Pug
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…
Book 24, Chapters 91-120: Different opinions on the dracontium; the aron; the d…
Read by Connie Bettison
Pliny the Elder
In The Natural History Volume 5
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Part II - Chapter XIII
Read by Deon Gines
Wilkie Collins
In My Lady's Money
Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…
Canto 3
Read by czandra
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In The Prophecy of Dante
Byron wrote this tribute to the great 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri after visiting his tomb in Ravenna in 1819. It envisages Dan…
12 - The Fang of the Dragon
Read by Mark Nelson
Robert E. Howard
In The Hour of the Dragon
The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and so…
The Red Etin
Read by Scott Mather
Andrew Lang
In The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…
The Dragon
Read by Silas Jackson
G. A. Henty
In Those Other Animals
G.A. Henty offers a clever and witty perspective on different animal species, especially focusing on over-looked or under-appreciated specie…
Völsungasaga
Read by Corpang
William Morris, Anonymoustranslated Bywilliam Morris, Anonymoustranslated By William Morris and William James McGlothlin
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact i…
Trouble in Dragon Land
Read by Hox
Tudor Jenks
In The Prince and the Dragons
Tudor Jenks was a popular author of childrens and adult books and stories in the late 19th and early 20th Century.This short book tells a de…
The Shepherd and the Dragon
Read by Kalynda
Lilian Gask
In Folk Tales from Many Lands
A collection of poetic folk tales from all over the world.
Letter XIII
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Richardson
In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…
September
Read by FraserP
Various
In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
Chapter XI
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Algernon Blackwood
In A Prisoner In Fairyland (The Book that 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
In his earlier novel (audiobook available),The Education of Uncle Paul The Education of Uncle Paul, Algernon alludes to a book Uncle Paul wa…
Autumn
Read by KHand
Various
In Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 4, October 1898
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…
Sonnet XIII
Read by Newgatenovelist
John Donne
In Holy Sonnets (Version 3)
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are a meditation on faith, loss, doubt and divine mercy. This recording uses the sequence of 19 sonnets as edited …
The Draiglin' Hogney
Read by Nan Dodge
Elizabeth W. Grierson
In The Scottish Fairy Book
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious r…
Letter XIII
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Richardson
In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5
Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…
Part 4
Read by InTheDesert
John Bunyan
In A Discourse on Prayer
I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the Understanding also: or a discourse touching prayer from 1 Corinthians 14:15. Wherein i…