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From Town
Read by Ed Humpal
Charles Badger Clark
In Sun and Saddle Leather
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost …
Bold Robin Rover
Read by Jude
Charles Godfrey Leland
In Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land
This is a volume of poetry by Charles Godfrey Leland. The first half of this volume is taken up by the Songs of the Sea, with rather romanti…
Glimpse, The
Read by David Barnes
Thomas Hardy
In Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection)
Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporari…
Chapter 1
Read by Anthony St. Pierre
Franklin W. Dixon
In The Mystery of Cabin Island version 2
The Hardy Boys find a trespasser on an island belonging to Elroy Jefferson, whose stolen car they helped recover in a previous adventure. Th…
Mrs. Jenny Wren
Read by RosiesReading
David Cory
In Little Jack Rabbit and Professor Crow
Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…
John Bellingham
Read by Howard Skyman
R. Austin Freeman
In The Eye Of Osiris (Version 2)
This is one of many famous novels written by R. Austin Freeman that includes the character of Dr. John Thorndyke. Dr. Thorndyke is a legal e…
The Letters
Read by MichaelMaggs
Alfred Tennyson and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2)
Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secre…
47 - A City Notebook
Read by Tom Merritt
Christopher Morley
In Pipefuls
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
Read by Daniel Davison
Samuel Johnson
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074
Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain…
Lethe
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…
Violets?
Read by Ben Tucker
Harold de Polo
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 064
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…
20 - Dialogue between Howard and Lester
Read by Jim Locke
Caleb Bingham
In The Columbian Orator
The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolroom…
A Postscript to our First Readers
Read by Larry Wilson
Charles Knight
In The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 1
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The Perfect Reader
Read by Carol Box
Christopher Morley
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2013
A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.
The Brook
Read by Sibella Denton
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Ontario Readers: Third Book
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
The Stroller's Tale
Read by Jim Locke
Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 04
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Robert the Bruce—How the Bruce Received a Letter and Struck a Blow
Read by James R. Hedrick
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
In Scotland's Story: A History Of Scotland For Boys And Girls
Scotland's Story: A History Of Scotland For Boys And Girls is both a history of Scotland as well as delving into some of its legends. Writte…
Chapter VIII The Mind Reader Strikesr
Read by cyndajm
Harold L. Goodwin
In The Electronic Mind Reader: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Rick, Scotty and Barby concoct a plan to use hidden technology in a quiz show. In the background, the Coast Guard contacts Spindrift Scient…
Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Reading a Letter
Read by Bruce Kachuk
D. H. Lawrence
In New Poems
This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…