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00 Preface
Read by Steven Seitel
Richard Jefferies
In Round About a Great Estate
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…
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-…
London
Read by Steve C
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
01 Introductory
Read by Steven Seitel
Joseph Smeaton Chase
In California Desert Trails
"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …
To Correspondents
Read by Alan Mapstone
Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 26
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Sec 13 Japan
Read by Steven Seitel
Sven Hedin
In From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…
The Morning
Read by Steven Fellows
Ferdinand Schmidt
In Gudrun
The charming story of “Gudrun” is a romance of the old heroic period, written by some unknown poet of Austria or Bavaria in the thirteenth c…
Curiosity
Read by IanGibblet
Elizabeth Semple
In A Cup of Sweets, that Can Never Cloy: Or, Delightful Tales for Good Children
Twenty-two moral stories for children. A collection of short stories about good little boys & girls and the rewards that come from good …
Mystery
Read by Nemo
George William Russell
In Homeward Songs by the Way
George William Russell -- better known by his pen name "A.E." -- was an Irish writer, poet and mystic, a lifelong friend of Willia…
07 A Dot And Line Alphabet
Read by David Wales
Edward Everett Hale
In The Man Without A Country And Other Tales
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contri…
Volume the Third – Postscript
Read by Bev J Stevens
William Godwin
In Caleb Williams or Things As They Are
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …
17 Tucuman
Read by Steven Seitel
Edward Frederick Knight
In The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
Part First—Kazmah the Dream-Reader Chapter I. A Message for Irvin
Read by Phil Schempf
Sax Rohmer
In Dope
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…
Mrs. Selwyn's Emerald
Read by ToddHW
Frank Gelett Burgess
In The Master of Mysteries
Subtitled, "Being an account of the problems solved by Astro, seer of secrets, and his love affair with Valeska Wynne, his assistant.&q…
Collection of Letters - Letters 4 and 5
Read by NoelBadrian
Jane Austen
In Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…
Chapter 47
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jane Austen
In Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
Pension Séguin
Read by Kathleen Moore
Katherine Mansfield
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
Introduction
Read by greatbasinrain
Thomas Seltzer
In Best Russian Short Stories
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th c…
For a Cynic
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Postscript
Read by Andrew Gaunce
Ralph Adams Cram
In Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories
A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphe…