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The Man in the Dining-Room

In The New Magdalen

Read by Michelle Tan

Wilkie Collins

Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to …

Fifth Scene - Glasgow - Chapter the Thirtieth

In Man and Wife

Read by Michelle Tan

Wilkie Collins

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were …

05 - PRINCE SNEEZE

In The Firelight Fairy Book

Read by Valerie Tan

Henry Beston

One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…

The Story of the Wind

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

Read by Michelle Tan

Hans Christian Andersen

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…

The Tea-Party

In Tommy and Grizel

Read by Michelle Tan

J. M. Barrie

This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…

Chapter 20

In Howards End (version 3)

Read by Michelle Tan

E. M. Forster

Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era.…

The Despairing Lover - Read by VT

In The Despairing Lover

Read by Valerie Tan

William Walsh

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, …

Part II - Chapter XIX

In My Lady's Money

Read by Michelle Tan

Wilkie Collins

Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…

Chapter VII

In The Ghost Camp

Read by Michelle Tan

Rolf Boldrewood

Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He meets up with John Carter, a bushman known locally as Lit…

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