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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Read by Phil Chenevert


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A governess comes to Sherlock Holmes for advice on an offer of a excellent position with a new employer. But the conditions are odd and exp…

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the Nort…

Read by Phil Benson


Robert Burrows


An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 184…

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

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Anonymous


This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so h…

The Confessions of a Daddy

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Ellis Parker Butler


The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…

Lancashire

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Francis Archibald Bruton


The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…

Songs of a Sourdough

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Robert W. Service


Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon…

Silver Blaze

Read by Phil Chenevert


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…

Terror Out of Space (Version 2)

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Leigh Douglass Brackett


"An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad…

The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets

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William Wordsworth


Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 2…

The Lost King of Oz

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


"Princess Ozma has ruled so wisely and happily in the wonderful Land of Oz for so long that most of us have forgotten the strange story…

Mrs. Warren's Profession (Version 2)

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George Bernard Shaw


.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two p…

The Tales of Mother Goose

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Charles Perrault


These stories were the original ones collected by Charles Perrault and published in French in 1696. You may have heard of some of them and …

A Japanese Boy

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Shigemi Shiukichi


The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments,…

Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific…

Aladore

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Sir Henry Newbolt


Ywain, a knight bored with his administrative duties, abandons his estate to his younger brother and goes on a pilgrimage to seek his heart'…

With Sack and Stock in Alaska

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George Broke


In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …

Voodoo Planet (Version 2)

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Andre Norton


A Free Trader space ship visits the planet Khatka where magic and Voodoo are threatening to destroy the promising civilization that has been…

The 64-Square Madhouse

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Fritz Leiber


A machine of blinking lights and smelling of ozone is entered into a Grand Master chess tournament. One of the first of those things called…

Adaptation

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Mack Reynolds


In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious strug…

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

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William Morris


A prose romance set in the forested kingdom of Oakenrealm, where a squirrel can go about from end to end without touching the ground, in whi…

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