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Art in Australia, No. 2, 1917

Read by Phil Benson


Various


In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…

Venice

Read by Phil Benson


Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes


Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artis…

The Evergreen, A Northern Seasonal. Spring 1895

Read by Phil Benson


William Sharp


The Evergreen was a short lived seasonal magazine, edited by William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) and published by Patrick Geddes, which proposed a…

The Blue Review, Number 2

Read by Phil Benson


Various


The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

Little Johannes

Read by Phil Benson


Frederik van Eeden and Frederik Van Eeden


In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the a…

Poems by Charles Harpur

Read by Phil Benson


Charles Harpur


Charles Harpur was arguably the first major Australia-born poet, best known for Australia-themed poems such as 'The Kangaroo Hunt' and the '…

The Festive Wreath

Read by Phil Benson


Various


The Festive Wreath, edited by John Bolton Rogerson, and subtitled 'A Collection of Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting Held in Manchest…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…

A Study in Scarlet

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

Riders of the Purple Sage

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Zane Grey


The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by …

The Book of Dragons

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


E. Nesbit


A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Leo Tolstoy


The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


F. Scott Fitzgerald


Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…

Bowser the Hound

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


Old Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will R…

The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


George MacDonald


A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from…

A Diary from Dixie

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Mary Chesnut


Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…

Mother West Wind's Children

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


"You can't fool old Mother Nature. No, Sir, you can't fool old Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try." The animals of the Gree…

Old Mother West Wind

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of natu…

United States Constitution and Amendments

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


United States Government and Unit


The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…

The Frog Prince and Other Stories

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Walter Crane


Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot agai…

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