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Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Read by Karen Savage
Baroness Emma Orczy
The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summ…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
The New Magdalen
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Wilkie Collins
Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to …
The Ontario Readers: Third Book
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Various
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
The Precipice
Read by Mary Schneider
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…
Thomas Carlyle
Read by David Wales
G. K. Chesterton
A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…
Main Street (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…
Writing Quebec [Readings]
SANWAL CBC
A ten part series of readings of remarkable Quebec Literature, Fiction and Poetry, focusing on post-war writing. Heather Brown Between The C…
Fiander's Widow
Read by Belinda Loveday
M. E. Francis
A rural romance, as described by the author, set in Dorset. A 58 year old farmer meets the beautiful young grand-daughter of a recently dece…
Constance Dunlap
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Arthur B. Reeve
Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…
Black Oxen
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)
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Baroness Emma Orczy
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…
Vanity Fair (version 2)
Read by Helen Taylor
William Makepeace Thackeray
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…
Isles of Eden
Read by KevinS
Laura Lee Davidson
A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is ind…
Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Charlotte Brontë
After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…
The Whispering Lane
Read by Celine Major
Fergus Hume
Following the death of her beloved fiancé Roderick, Miss Danby is hounded relentlessly by Dr. Slanton who wants to marry her to acces…
Dope
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Sax Rohmer
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…
The Lady from Nowhere
Read by MaryAnn
Fergus Hume
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (I…