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Grey Mask
Read by Sandra Cullum
Patricia Wentworth
Charles Moray is jilted on the eve of his wedding. He then leaves the country for a few years. Upon returning, he finds strangers are using…
Familiar Dialogues
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Pedro Carolino
In English as She is Spoke
English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to th…
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; From the Museum of
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
In A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
Cully
Read by Bellona Times
Jack Egan
In Short Science Fiction Collection 018
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
Pilate's Wife's Dream (writing as Currer Bell)
Read by Ellis Christoff
Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte) and Anne Brontë
In Selected Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 184…
Canto 1
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…
25 - Recollections
Read by NoelBadrian
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
In The Undying One and Other Poems
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
The Princess and Curdie (Version 2)
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
A year has passed since Curdie's adventures with young Princess Irene and the hostile goblins deep in the mountain. As Curdie grows up, his …
The Piper of Culloden
Read by Mark LoSacco
Joyce Emmerson Muddock
In Stories Weird and Wonderful
A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.
Smereree
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Sophia Morrison
In Manx Fairy Tales
A collection of fairy tales regarding myths and legends of the Isle of Man. Sophia was considered one of the key figures of the Manx cultur…
Tuktu Tells her Story
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
In The Christmas Reindeer
Tuktu and her brother, Aklak, are Eskimo children who live happily with their beloved reindeer in the Northland. When Tuktu is lost in a fog…
Letter 30
Read by Sibella Denton
J. O. Choules and John Overton Choules
In Young Americans Abroad
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…
Two Letters
Read by czandra
Nina Rhoades
In The Little Girl Next Door
A delightful story of true and genuine friendship between an impulsive little girl in a fine New York home and a little blind girl in an apa…
To the Locust
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
The Apology - Read by SEC
Read by Sandra Cullum
Anne Kingsmill Finch
In The Apology
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was an English poet, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton Court and his wife, Anne Hasl…
From the North
Read by Diana Majlinger
Sara Teasdale
In Rivers to the Sea
This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem "I Sha…
April
Read by Nemo
Olive Custance
In Rainbows
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
Cully
Read by Jozef Nagy
Jack Egan
In Short Science Fiction Collection 017
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
In the Cul-de-Sac
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 …
Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
Read by Inkell
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…