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The Garland-Room
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…
The Readers Corner
Read by Bill Boerst
Captain S. P. Meek
In Astounding Stories 12, December 1930
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, &qu…
Message
Read by Deandra
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
Chapter 5 Part 5
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
In Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is on…
CHAPTER VI—A PROWLER IN THE DARK
Read by Drew Johnson
Elmer Russell Gregor
In Running Fox
Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…
Dr. Siegfried Iseman
Read by Matthew Walton
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Dame Gothel
Read by Julian Pratley
David Cory
In Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb
David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…
Nero
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…
Der Spiegel des Cyprianus
Read by Hokuspokus
Theodor Storm
Eine traurige Geschichte über böse und gute Stiefmütter und einen magischen Spiegel. (Summary by Hokuspokus)
A Disappointing Appointment
Read by Cleon Cumberbatch
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
In Mary Anerley
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
To You Who Read My Book
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Chapter XIX
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
The Bookbinder and His Pupil
Read by csinclair
George MacDonald
In There and Back
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …
Chapter 19 - The Reader Is Brought Into Communication With Some Professional Pe…
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
In Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word…
Prefatory note by the editor—To the Reader
Read by InTheDesert
John Owen
In Of Temptation
To one who reads the treatise in the spirit with which the author wrote it, simply that he may judge his own heart, and know what temptation…
Vanitie
Read by KevinS
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…
Chapter 1
Read by PhyllisV
Dexter C. Bloomer
In Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …
09 Chapter 7 Where It Was Part 1
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
In Members of the Family
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
In The Royal Suite
Read by Phil Chenevert
Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard
In The Ghost Breaker (Dramatic Reading)
The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a scr…
The Informer
Read by David Wales
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In Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland…