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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Read by Cori Samuel


Mary Seacole


I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

A Christmas Carol (version 07)

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Charles Dickens


The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…

Tender Buttons

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Gertrude Stein


"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…

The Story of a Candy Rabbit

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Laura Lee Hope


The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

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Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

The Soul of London

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Ford Madox Ford


'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

Orlando, A Biography

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Virginia Woolf


A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

A Room of One’s Own

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Virginia Woolf


This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…

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In Love and Freindship

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Jane Austen


Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling…

The Troubadour

In Short Science Fiction Collection 002

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Robert Lowndes and Robert A. W. Lowndes


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

04 - In the Dark

In My School Days

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E. Nesbit


A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

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