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Bleak House

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Charles Dickens


Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to…

Ruth

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fall…

Dombey and Son (version 2)

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Charles Dickens


Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company…

Chapter 06

In Beowulf

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Tr. Francis Barton Gummere, Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere


This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…

Chapter 20 – Joe Green

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

Chapter 14

In Northanger Abbey

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “hor…

Chapter 8 The Flowers

In The Yosemite

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


John Muir


John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

Chapters 14-15

In Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

Chapter 30

In The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


Henry James


The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

The Little Man and His Little Gun

In Mother Goose in Prose

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)


L. Frank Baum


Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…