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Earthmen Bearing Gifts

In Short Science Fiction Collection 088

Read by Walter Ford


Charles L. Fontenay and Fredric Brown


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

There is a Reaper

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 062

Read by Walter Ford


Charles V. de Vet


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Visions and Revisions

Read by Keri Ford


John Cowper Powys


Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique…

The Sparrow to the Skylark

In Earlier Poems

Read by Bryony Ford


Julia Caroline Dorr


This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin

Speculations

In She

Read by Keri Ford


H. Rider Haggard


At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket w…

08 - Part 1 - The Events of Eighteen Days

In Desperate Remedies

Read by Bryony Ford


Thomas Hardy


Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

Chapter 08-09

In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1

Read by Keri Ford


Laurence Sterne


The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in n…

Book 9, Chapters 27-31

In Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1

Read by Keri Ford


Sir Thomas Malory


Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, &quo…

Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

Read by Keri Ford


François Rabelais


The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

Introduction to Sir George Grey, Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands

In Australian Miscellany

Read by Keri Ford


George Cockburn Henderson (1870–1944) and George Cockburn Henderson


A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readin…

Gavon's Eve

In The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

Read by Dom Ford


E. F. Benson


These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their peru…

The Fortunate Punishment

In Four and Twenty Fairy Tales

Read by Paul Ford


Varioustranslated Byjames Planché


This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty…

07 - Charles Lamb

In Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

Read by Keri Ford


Walter Pater


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