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Preface
Read by Jessie Percival
Charles Lewis Meryon
In Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope
Lady Hester Stanhope was a woman ahead of her time. She traveled alone, lived among "savages" and was comfortable dressing in man…
Chapter I
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
In The Amateur
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
What the Squirrel did for Richard
Read by Reeses118
Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
In Short Stories for Short People
This is a collection of short stories by Alicia Aspinwall. - Summary by Carolin
Passing by Emmy Veronica Sanders
Read by Agnes Robert Behr
Various
In Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Vol. 20, No. 6, Sep., 1922
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded by poet and columnist Harriet Monroe in 1912. This journal is regarded as one of the major poetry jo…
1.7.II. O Richard, O my King.
Read by Elizabeth Buchanan
Thomas Carlyle
In The French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, fir…
Meeting and Passing
Read by Mister Lukey
Robert Frost
In Mountain Interval (version 2)
Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published b…
The Second Choice
Read by James Hutchisson
Theodore Dreiser
In Free, and other stories
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…
09 - The Pines
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
Publisher's Note
Read by David Wales
Richard Harding Davis
In The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …
Props
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Carl Sandburg
In Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
Honestus at the Caucus
Read by SK
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…
King Richard and Salidin
Read by Neeru Iyer
Sir Walter Scott
In The Ontario Readers: Third Book
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
2 B R 0 2 B
Read by Seth Wayne
Leigh Douglass Brackett and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In Short Science Fiction Collection 090
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
To Dr. James Newton Matthews
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Mr. Crow's News
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot (version 2)
Another Slumbertown and Tuck-Me In Tale book by Arthur Scott Bailey, this time we meet Turkey Proudfoot at Farmer Greens farm in Pleasant Va…
25 - By Deputy, Chapter 1
Read by Pascal Ramseier
Richard Marsh
In Amusement Only
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)
Introduction by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt
Read by mleigh
Various
In To Your Dog and To My Dog
A collection of verse dedicated to dogs. (Summary by mleigh)
Rewards
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
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 …
Iceland
Read by nbvoices
Laura Goodman Salverson
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
THE LONG WAY ’ROUND
Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Owen Davis
In Sketches of Gotham
If you're the sort that gets a thrill from rubbing elbows with shady characters you best leave the introductions to the streetwise Ike Swift…