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Echoes
Read by MichaelMaggs
Lewis Carroll
In Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …
Chapter 18
Read by Alexander Boyd Strickland
Matthew Henry
In Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew
Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book…
Book I Part 2 (Chapters 6-10)
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
In Rhetoric
The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to …
Edward Everett in 1862
Read by Matthew Squaire
George William Curtis
In From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…
After All
Read by Brian Edwards
Henry Lawson
In A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose
A collection of Australian writing from the public domain.
The Passing of Edward
Read by Nemo
Richard Middleton
In The Ghost Ship & Other Stories
Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an…
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
To Lucy
Read by Anya
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Book V 28-34 (555b)
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
In History of Animals
(Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of …
An occasional Prologue
Read by De Anna Lee
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
To L—
Read by Andrew Gaunce
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
CHARACTERS CHAPTER IV—MISS EVANS AND THE EAGLE
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
In Sketches by Boz, version 2
A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications f…
The Affairs of Anne, by Louise Betts Edwards
Read by Sonia
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 03 December 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
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…
42 - Edward
Read by NoelBadrian
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
In The Undying One and Other Poems
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
To Arthur Lee- Oct 31, 1771
Read by Dory
Samuel Adams
In The Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 2
Most Americans and many of other nationalities have heard of Samuel Adams. He was regarded in the Pre-Revolutionary Period of American Histo…
Lord Roberts
Read by Tomas Peter
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…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
In the Study
Read by Kerry Adams
William Wilfred Campbell
In Lake Lyrics and Other Poems
A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of O…
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