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Foreword
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Emmuska Orczy and Baroness Emma Orczy
In Castles in the Air
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…
Book 1, Chapter 7, Part 3
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Catherine Carswell
In Open The Door
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…
An Invitation
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
In Pee-Wee Harris (Version 2)
Last summer I went down to where my uncle lives and spent vacation there and I had a peach of a time and all the things I did are told in th…
Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Official Report, by Thaddeus M. Lakewood
Read by Julie Burks
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 09 June 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
April
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
In The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…
The Way
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
Charmian's Song
Read by Libby Gohn
Harriet Monroe, Editor and Aline Kilmer
In Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol 18, April-September 1921
Spring through Fall 1921 in Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe. 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of Poetry magazine. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
A Parable
Read by Jessi McDaniel
George Murray
In Poems
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…
An Only Offer
Read by ArmReader
Amelia E. Barr
In Winter Evening Tales
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
Lady Alice
Read by Carrie-Lorraine Sherry
Various
In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…
The Heather Glen by George by Sigerson
Read by Sonia
Varioustranslated Byalfred Perceval Graves and Varioustranslated By Alfred Perceval Graves
In The Book of Irish Poetry, part I
Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This…
Writing a Book
Read by Sheila Quattrocchi
Myrtle Reed
In Threads of Grey and Gold
This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic…
Entrapped
Read by Newgatenovelist
Alice Mangold Diehl
The story begins with a storm outside an old house and stormy scenes inside between the house’s occupants. It details the eventful life of Z…
EllenTerry
Read by Lee Smalley
George Iles
In Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors
The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This…
April - North Carolina
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Harriet Monroe
In Local Color Collection Vol. 001
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)
At Last
Read by Amy Gramour
Marietta Holley
In Poems
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin
Clarissa Scott Delaney
Read by Newgatenovelist
Angelina Weld Grimké
In Selected Poems
Angelina Weld Grimké was a poet, playwright and educator. These poems were published between 1923 and 1927. - Summary by Newgatenovel…