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In Short Poetry Collection 215

Read by Esther Gomez Shannon


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2021.

Raggedy Ann Stories

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Johnny Gruelle


To the millions of children and grown-ups who have loved a Rag Doll, the author dedicated these stories. Now listen as eight voices read to …

Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)

Read by Shannon Sullivan


Sylvia Townsend Warner


Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …

An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

Read by Esther


Jules Verne


Edgar Allan Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len G…

The Fur Country

Read by Esther


Jules Verne


In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…

A Little Servant

Read by Esther


Grace Livingston Hill


A short story of a little girl who is Jesus' servant and how she won the heart of an unbelieving gardener. Summary by Esther

Bible (KJV) 17: Esther

Read by Esther


King James Version


Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter …

God's Country—And the Woman

Read by Esther


James Oliver Curwood


James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that pro…

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

Read by Esther


H. Rider Haggard


This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…

Fast in the Ice

Read by Esther


R. M. Ballantyne


At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…

The Backwoods of Canada

Read by Esther


Catharine Parr Traill


The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

Read by Esther


Laurence Housman


It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to w…

Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

Read by Esther


Richard Burton Deane


Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…

The Copyright Question

Read by Esther


George Morang


This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Tra…

History of Farming in Ontario

Read by Esther


C. C. James


This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…

The Mounties in the News

Read by Esther


The New York Times


A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from Augus…

Christie's Old Organ

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Mrs. O. F. Walton


Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…

Poppy's Presents

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Mrs. O. F. Walton


One day, Poppy gets told her mother has a present for her. But the neighbors laugh and say there is such a thing as too much of a good thing…

Joel, a Boy of Galilee

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Annie Fellows Johnston


Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…

The Haunted Room

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Charlotte Maria Tucker


Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…

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