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The Romance of a Mummy - Prologue, Part 1

In The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

Read by Sarah Terry


Théophile Gautier


The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…

Winter Evening - Read by SET

In Winter Evening

Read by Sarah Terry


Archibald Lampman


Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent …

The Dwarf's Gifts

In In The Days of Giants

Read by Sarah Terry


Abbie Farwell Brown


This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…

Introduction

In The Blazing World

Read by Sarah Terry


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish


The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …

Chapter 16

In The Romance of the Forest

Read by Terry Hergesheimer


Ann Radcliffe


A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …

'Uncle' Lias

In Humorous Poems

Read by Terry Murtha


Ignatius Brennan


This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundi…

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