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The Gateway
Read by Steve Simons
Steve Simons
This book was written for children, it was originally serialised on the podcast show KidsCastSciFi. It follows the adventures of two boys wh…
The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography
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Silas Weir Mitchell
Departing from the usual third person narratives of biographies, this account is told in the first person as the reminiscences of a now reti…
The Short Life
Read by Peter Eastman
Francis Donovan
At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and bega…
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …
Read by Barbara Baker
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…
Sydney Past and Present
Read by Phil Benson
John Arthur Barry
An account of the early history of Sydney, Australia's first colonial city. Best known for his collection of light-hearted yarns, Steve Brow…
The Shame of Going Back
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Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-kno…
The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I
Read by Anthony Ogus
John Evelyn
John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…
Porgy
Read by Denise Ray
DuBose Heyward and Dubose Heyward
Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he leads in the 1900's. - Summary by Denise Ray
The Longest Journey
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E. M. Forster
Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical compa…
A Wish
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Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Rom…
Mists of Mars
Read by Edmund Bloxam
George A. Whittington
The Wild West, reimagined as the Martian landscape, where law is defined by whoever has the biggest weapons, be they guns, ships, or things …
Confidence
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Henry James
This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine…
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…
Prophets, Priests, And Kings
Read by David Wales
Alfred George Gardiner
These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as …
The Prelude, Version 2
Read by Peter Tucker
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…