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A Dwarf

In Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Read by J. Olpecre


Songling Pu


"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…

Our Present State one of Danger and Infelicity

In Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

Read by J. McDougall


Samuel Johnson


This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …

Wedlock - Read by JM

In Wedlock

Read by J. McDougall


Jenny Grahame


This poem is taken from A Book of Women’s Verse published in 1921. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Deep In The Quiet Wood - Read by JM

In Deep In The Quiet Wood

Read by J. McDougall


James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…

Spring - Read by JM

In Spring (Barber version 2)

Read by J. McDougall


Margaret Fairless Barber


Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (…

Book VIII - Chapter 7

In Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

Read by J. McDougall


Xenophon


The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

Book 1, Chapters IX-XIII

In De Vulgari Eloquentia

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) is a short essay written by Dante Alighieri in Latin. The work remains incomplete; on…

The Death-bed - Read by JM

In The Death-bed

Read by J. McDougall


Thomas Hood


Thomas Hood was an English poet, author, and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wr…

Lily Of The West - Read by JM

In Lily Of The West

Read by J. McDougall


William James Mcglothlin


"Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America." - Summary by …

Vittore Scarpaccia (Carpaccio) and other Venetian and Lombard painters

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 4

Read by Mary J


Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

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