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American Notes

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…

More William (version 2)

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Richmal Crompton


More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just…

France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting …

Stalky & Co. (More Stories)

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not …

The Square Egg and Other Sketches

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Saki


Eight amusing short pieces by Hector Hugh Munro (pen name Saki) who died in the First World War, collected and published posthumously in 192…

Lohengrin zu Brabant

In Märchen 4

Read by Tim


grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

The merman missionary (1854), by David Livingstone

In The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Read by Robin Cook


Eva March Tappan


This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Zachary Taylor, December 4, 1849, part 1

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1849 - 1856)

Read by Owen Cook


Millard Fillmore


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Arethusa

In The Wonder Garden

Read by Owen Cook


Frances Jenkins Olcott


"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transf…

Grant's May Battles in Mississippi

In Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 7)

Read by Owen Cook


John Hay and John George Nicolay, John Hay and John George Nicolay


Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

Austerlitz

In Napoleon, A Short Biography

Read by Owen Cook


Robert Matteson Johnston


This is a 'lightning biography' which serves as an introduction to the field of Napoleonic history. Its purpose is to enable the ordinary re…

The Chaldean Field

In In the Path of the Alphabet

Read by Owen Cook


Frances Jermain


Language: we all use it and few of us think about the form it takes on the page. But how did the transmittal of ideas in written form evolve…

Missouri Radicals and Conservatives

In Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8)

Read by Owen Cook


John Hay and John George Nicolay, John Hay and John George Nicolay


Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

Part 5

In History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 5

Read by Owen Cook


Friedrich Schiller


Volume 5 concludes the History of the Thirty Years War in Germany. [Note From the first PG etext of this work: Separate sources indicate th…

Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

Read by Owen Cook


William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan


In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations …

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