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Chapter 30

In Thyrza

Read by Maddie Burns


George Gissing


Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…

Inspiration

In Songs Ysame

Read by Shana Burns


Annie Fellows Johnston and Albion Fellows Bacon, Annie Fellows Johnston and Albion Fellows Bacon


This is a volume of poetry written by the sisters Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie Fellows Johnston. Both of the sisters reached quite a level…

The Old Maid - Read by EB

In The Old Maid (Shorter)

Read by Eric Burns


Dora Sigerson Shorter


Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.She wa…

VII

In The Blood of the Vampire

Read by Jessica Burns


Florence Marryat


The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Le Fanu's Camilla. Harriet is a vampire who kills ac…

A Romance from the Fields

In The Poetry of South Africa

Read by Shana Burns


Alexander Wilmot


Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…

Hay and Hell and Booligal

In Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses

Read by TJ Burns


Andrew Barton Paterson


This is a collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. This collection contains some of Paterson's most famous poems, such as Rio …

The Fairy City

In Australian Fairy Tales

Read by Jessica Burns


James Hume-Cook


"The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them came abou…

Al Mansur, builder of Bagdad, and the poet (eighth century A.D.), adapted from …

In The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Read by TJ Burns


Eva March Tappan


This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Aunt Rose’s Girl: A Story of Commencement Days

In Uncollected Short Stories of L.M. Montgomery

Read by TJ Burns


Lucy Maud Montgomery


A compilation of 80 short stories by the author of "Anne of Green Gables" that were not previously published in a book or in one o…

How a Persian Mohammedan says his prayers, by Rev. S. G. Wilson

In The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Read by TJ Burns


Eva March Tappan


This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

The Little Lady's Vacation and Her Return

In The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book

Read by Shana Burns


Albert Bigelow Paine


"In the House of Many Windows which stands in a large city and is sometimes called a "flat" by people who, because they are g…

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