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Birds of Chocorua

In Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist

Read by Courtney Chambard


Winthrop Packard


Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…

On Some Country Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Courtney Smith


W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

3 Larbourd Watch Ahoy

In Kangaroo

Read by Courtney Miller


D. H. Lawrence


"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of …

Chapter 10

In Regiment of Women

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Clemence Dane


Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…

Captain Nielsen

In My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1

Read by Courtney Miller


William Clark Russell


Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishe…

Chapter 13: The Moon and Planets

In History of Astronomy

Read by Courtney Miller


George Forbes


An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by re…

Chapter III - At Home with Cossacks (Part 1)

In The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia

Read by Courtney Miller


Kellogg Durland


Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…

On the Way to the Tomb of Korah

In The Perfect World

Read by Courtney Miller


Ella Scrymsour


Almost certainly the merging of two separate magazine novellas, where Scrymsour attempted to weave together the plots. In this fantasy/ scie…

CHAPTER 5. MRS. WALKER'S OPINION

In The Amethyst Cross

Read by Courtney Miller


Fergus Hume


Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…

Chapter 58 – Love and No Leasing.

In St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3

Read by Courtney Miller


George MacDonald


’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …

The Immortal, part 1

In Police!!!

Read by Courtney Miller


Robert W. Chambers


Further adventures of zoologist Percy Smith ("In Search of the Unknown"). Humorous, science fiction tales, focusing on the pursuit…