Search Results

THE NEVER BIRD

In Peter Pan (version 2)

Read by Sarah Ashley


J. M. Barrie


In both the play and the novel, Peter often visits the "real world" of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling…

The Labyrinth

Read by Ashley Crossman


Francis Stevens


This story takes place in Marshall City, the fictional capital of an unnamed Midwestern state, where the cousin of millionaire Hildreth Wynd…

Joanna Traill, Spinster

Read by Ashley Sue Murphy


Annie E. Holdsworth


Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …

The Blazing World

Read by Sarah Terry


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish


The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …

How to Camp Out

Read by Sarah Jennings


John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (version 3)

Read by Sarah Hill


E. Nesbit


This story follows the six Bastable Children; Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius, on their adventures to help their widowe…

The Spirit of the Curé of Ars

Read by Sarah Cain


Alfred Monnin


St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…

A Place of Dreams / Think Not, O Lilias

In Poems

Read by Ashley


Nora May French


Nora May French was a Californian poet and a member of the bohemian literary circles of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, which flourished af…

Birds Foretell Marriage

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 1, July 1898

Read by Ashley


Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and a…

Sweet Stay-at-Home

In Foliage: Various Poems

Read by Ashley


William Henry Davies


W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one …

Part III: Shortcakes

In A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl

Read by Ashley


Caroline French Benton


Join Margaret, a little girl who really wants to learn how to properly cook and bake everything from seafood to cake, as she sets out to mak…

End of the Empire of the West

In The Story of the Romans

Read by Ashley


H. A. Guerber


A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)

Gherardo

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

Read by Ashley


Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

Book I - Chapters V to VIII (When several things are ordained for one end, one …

In De Monarchia

Read by Ashley


Dante Alighieri


The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the …

Kashmiri Song - Read by AK

In Kashmiri Song

Read by Ashley


Laurence Hope


Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her father was employed in the Br…

Brother's and Mushrooms

In Five Minutes' Stories

Read by Ashley


Mary Louisa Molesworth


This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illus…

34 - The End of It All

In The Silent House

Read by Ashley LeBlanc


Fergus Hume


A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book…

53 - Book 8 Chapter 8 - Delirium

In The Brothers Karamazov

Read by Ashley Candland


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …