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Chapter XI. A Keen Disappointment

In Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm

Read by Marie Christian

Alice B. Emerson

Betty Gordon found herself an orphan at age twelve. She became the ward of her uncle, Richard Gordon. She immediately came to love her uncle…

Letter IV

In Letters from Hell

Read by Marie Christian

Valdemar Adolph Thisted

"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…

Billy Whiskers Decides

In Billy Whiskers at the Circus

Read by Marie Christian

Frances Trego Montgomery

What better place for a little goat to find adventures and mischief than a circus? What is an elephant's trunk anyway? But the circus can …

Across the Ocean, Or, A Boy's First Voyage: Chapter XI

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 29, May 18, 1880

Read by Marie Christian

Various

Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…

PART I. CHAPTER VII. PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED

In Strength and How to Obtain It

Read by Marie Christian

Eugen Sandow

In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

Chapter 6. For His Sake

In A Romance of the Moors

Read by Marie Christian

Mona Caird

Dick Coverdale is secretly betrothed to his neighbor, the beautiful Bessie Saunders. When a visitor to the area named Margaret Ellwood appea…

Chapter 4

In Ada Merton

Read by Marie Christian

Francis J. Finn, S.J.

The conversion of an indifferent father and mother, through the death of an only child, is well told in another story by Fr Finn, S.J. entit…

In the Far North

In The Bolshevik Myth

Read by Marie Christian

Alexander Berkman

The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 19…

01 One Way Ticket

In Police Your Planet

Read by Christian Alexander

Lester Del Rey

Bruce Gordon looked at his ticket, grimaced at the ONE WAY stamped on it, then tore it into bits and let the pieces scatter over the floor. …

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