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Autobiography of Phineas Pett
Read by Lynne T
Phineas Pett
Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept…
A Woman's War
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Warwick Deeping
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the …
Agnes Sorel
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George Payne Rainsford James
The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…
Darnley
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George Payne Rainsford James
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…
De L'Orme
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George Payne Rainsford James
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…
The Giant's Robe
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F. Anstey
Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his…
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with…
The Fall River Tragedy
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Edwin H. Porter
The story of how Lizzie Borden supposedly murdered her parents has passed into American folklore, partly thanks to the albeit inaccurate pla…
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2)
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J. S. Fletcher
A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way …
The Voyage Out (Version 2)
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Virginia Woolf
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voy…
The Forgery
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George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art
Read by Lynne T
William Henry Holmes
A study of ceramics in the Americas: its form, function and ornamentation as well as its history. Produced by the Smithsonian's Department o…
Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times
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George Payne Rainsford James
Picture a tranquil English village, with an inn on the green. A lone patron enjoys his wine and teasing the landlord's pretty daughter, when…
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2)
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Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imp…
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley
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George Payne Rainsford James
In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants
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George Payne Rainsford James
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
Arabella Stuart
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George Payne Rainsford James
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
The Smuggler
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George Payne Rainsford James
The county of Kent, situated in the south eastern corner of England is ideally placed for the smugglers' trade. Close to London, with its ma…
Agincourt: A Romance
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George Payne Rainsford James
The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …
The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times
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George Payne Rainsford James
The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…