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To Elizabeth Ward Perkins
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
Chapter 3
Read by Mark Nelson
Ray Cummings
In Wandl the Invader
There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began…
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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…
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
Readers' Corner, Part 2
Read by Bill Boerst
various and Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 17, May 1931
This issue of the science-fiction magazine includes a novella by Charles W. Diffin titled "Dark Moon" and several short stories, i…
The Reader's Corner
Read by Greg Giordano
Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 06, June 1930
Issue six of this seminal science-fiction magazine concludes the Ray Cummings story "Brigands of the Moon", and continues Murray L…
02 - Chapters 3 through 6
Read by Tom Weiss
Gilbert Parker
In The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of…
Chapter XI
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 Readers' Corner Part 1
Read by esheffield
various and Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 10, October 1930
Issue no. 10 of the magazine brings you:- Stolen Brains by Captain S.P. MeekThe Invisible Death by Victor Rousseau Prisoners on the Electro…
Chapter 24
Read by Mark Nelson
Sinclair Lewis
In Main Street (Version 2)
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…
Part V
Read by Mark Nelson
Ray Cummings
In Juggernaut of Space
Never had the mind of man conceived so horrible a doom as was reaching for Earth. Never had a greater need for Earth's valiant champions bee…
the hills
Read by Scotty Smith
E. E. Cummings
In XLI Poems
A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems…
Chapter IV
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)
Read by Bryan Ward-Perkins and Oliver Lewis
Bryan Ward-Perkins and Oliver Lewis
University of Oxford Podcasts
Scenes 15: Early Coaches
Read by Chris Hughes
Charles Dickens
In Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…
Chapter I
Read by Theoden Humphrey
John Clay Coleman
In The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Read by Peter Tucker
William Butler Yeats
In The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
Chapter 3
Read by Zachary Brewster-Geisz
Ray Cummings
In Wandl the Invader (version 2)
There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began…
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
Apollo to the Dean
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…