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05 - Coleridge, part 1

In Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

Read by Eberle Thomas


Walter Pater


Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

06 - Jackal or Tiger?

In The Olive Fairy Book

Read by Thomas Meaney


Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was …

30 - The Dean is Very Busy

In Is He Popenjoy ?

Read by Rebecca Thomas


Anthony Trollope


Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

05- THE SEASON'S PROSPECTS

In The Sunny Side

Read by Eberle Thomas


A. A. Milne


The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…

Hok Lee and the Dwarfs

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Read by Kirk Thomas


William Patten


The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Chapter 04

In The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

Read by Thomas Wells


James Fenimore Cooper


This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

Achelous and Hercules--Admetus and Alcestis--Antigone--Penelope

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Thomas Wells


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Karmu and Dharmu

In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

Read by Kirk Thomas


Cecil Henry Bompas and Unknowntranslated Bycecil Henry Bompas


This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…

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