Search Results
Chapters X and XI
Read by Verla Viera
Frank Tilton
In Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin
The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…
The Peddler
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928) and Charlotte Mew
In Poetry Miscellany 01
As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…
Bay Combe
Read by Algy Pug
G. K. Chesterton
In Poems
Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war po…
Germany
Read by Alan Mapstone
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Chapter 9 - In Which He Has a Near Shave
Read by drewclark
Sapper
In Bulldog Drummond
‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. A…
The Barber of the Alpena, by J. Harwood
Read by ToddHW
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 12 September 1896
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
III
Read by Scotty Smith
Ellis Parker Butler
In The Incubator Baby
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…
The Tale of Hagen and the Griffin
Read by Steven Fellows
Ferdinand Schmidt
In Gudrun
The charming story of “Gudrun” is a romance of the old heroic period, written by some unknown poet of Austria or Bavaria in the thirteenth c…
Old Granny Sullivan
Read by Alan Mapstone
Shaw Neilson
In Heart of Spring
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
Chapter 6
Read by DaleBarkley
Ellis Parker Butler
In In Pawn
Inspired by "Lives of the Saints", fat, lazy, good-for-nothing Harvey Redding decides to give up the junk-collecting business, and…
Praise
Read by Alan Mapstone
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…
Forgotten?
Read by Bruce Kachuk
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Commentaries
Read by Alan Mapstone
Charles Williams
In Poems of Conformity
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …
November
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
In The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…
The Barberry Bush by Grace Hazard Conkling
Read by C. B. Seyfarth
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
Some Fiction; Little Isaac
Read by April6090
Ambrose Bierce
In The Fiend's Delight
This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile.It is a …
Polly's Narrative
Read by David Gavin
Andrew Lang and Walter Herries Pollock and Andrew Lang
In He
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer)You will not think, therefore, tha…
A Year Ago
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Frank Oliver Call
In In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems
These magnificent poems written by a lover of the natural splendor of untrodden lands are both thrilling and exhilarating. Visions and obser…
To Correspondents
Read by Alan Mapstone
Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 26
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Mirror
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 4
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …