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03 – Book 1 Sir Percy Explains Chapter 3
Read by Linda Andrus
Baroness Emma Orczy
In The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, T…
Outcast
Read by Denise Ray
Claude Mckay
In Harlem Shadows
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family…
Vol. 2 - Chapter 2
Read by Linda Andrus
Maria Edgeworth
In Helen
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…
The Star
Read by Linda Dodge
H. G. Wells
In Short Science Fiction Collection 023
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Chapter 2
Read by Kevin Green
Baroness Emma Orczy
In The Emperor's Candlesticks
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…
Prologue Part 1
Read by Annie Kirkpatrick
Baroness Emma Orczy
In I Will Repay
This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series …
Laura Sorrell
Read by Jacqueline Burrell Walton
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Dotage
Read by Suzanne Carol
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
A Word of Explanation
Read by Matthew McNaughton
Edith Eudora Kohl
In Land of the Burnt Thigh
"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months…
31 - CERTIFICATES OF CHARACTER
Read by Linda Velwest
Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert
In The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…
Forbearance
Read by Melissa Perry
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Lady Arctura
Read by Devorah Allen
George MacDonald
In Donal Grant
After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
What Patricia Heard From Tokio Excerpts from Harper’s Magazine by FRANCES LITT…
Read by ArmReader
Various
In The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2
Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form.A most co…
NEXT TO READING MATTER
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Dusk
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Over The Porridge
Read by Shriya
Lucy Clifford
In Very Short Stories And Verses For Children
Very Short Stories And Verses For Children is a children's book by Lucy Clifford compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about…
Androclus and the Lion
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Baldwin
In Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…
The Third Reading
Read by Linda Johnson
Alphonse Daudet
In Monday Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before…
Nocturne
Read by Tomas Peter
Dorothy Parker
In Enough Rope
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…