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Chapter 2. The Wouldbegoods

In The Wouldbegoods, Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers

Read by Alan Chant

E Nesbit and E. Nesbit

The Bastable children, first met in The Treasure Seekers, are sent to stay in the countryside; is it large enough to contain their exuberant…

To Henry Fifth (Victor Hugo)

In Morna Lee, and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone

Mary Hannay Foott

Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…

Eleanor Stevens' will, by Isabel Scott Stone

In The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 06 March 1896

Read by Alan Mapstone

Various

The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Monsieur Angot, by Charles F. Bourke

In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897

Read by Alan Lord

Various

The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Poem: Why Are You Weeping, Sister?

In Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

Read by Alan Mapstone

Ernest A. Bell

A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …

Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1…

In The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

Read by Alan Mapstone

Eva March Tappan

This is the seventh 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 …

The Cook's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone

Geoffrey Chaucer

Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…

Pont-Sur-Sambre -- The Travelling Merchant

In An Inland Voyage

Read by Alan Mapstone

Robert Louis Stevenson

As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first publi…

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