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The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets

Read by Phil Benson


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

Read by Phil Chenevert


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

Read by Phil Chenevert


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

Read by Phil Schempf


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)

Read by Phil Chenevert


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…

Travels in Lancashire

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Various,William Roscoe


A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…

The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed

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Cenydd Morus


Cenydd Morus's (Kenneth Morris) imaginative retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the great work of Welsh literature first recorded in the…

The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla

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John W. Arctander


This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. …

Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)

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Mark Twain


Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long…

Six lectures on literature

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Charles Harold Herford


C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…

Ribbon in the Sky

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Murray Leinster


Med Service man Calhoun and his little sidekick Murgatroid run into another sizeable speed bump on their assigned visits to the planets of t…

The Last Evolution

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John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.


John Campbell Jr. gives us a story about evolution. What will be man's ultimate evolution? What will he look like 100,000 years in the fut…

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