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Surprise House
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Abbie Farwell Brown
Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…
The Return (de la Mare version)
Read by Corinna Schultz
Walter de la Mare and Walter De La Mare
A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his fami…
Ion
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Thomas Noon Talfourd
This drama, set in Ancient Greece, was written by a Victorian lawyer who was a close friend of Charles Dickens. When collected into book for…
Le Corbeau
Edgar Allan Poe
Au Fil des lectures Poésie d'Edgar Allan Poe, traduite et lue par Thibaut Giraud. 17 min
Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries
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Arthur Elmore Bostwick
This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…
English Literature
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Geraldine Hodgson
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…
Modern Essays
Read by David Wales
Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the Englis…
Read by Tony Oliva
William J. Long
This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…
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…
In the North Woods of Maine
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Elmer Erwin Thomas
Two fifteen-year-old boys---the younger of whom may have been fourteen---decide to hunt and trap away from home in the north woods of Maine.…
Northanger Abbey (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…
The Birthplace
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …
The Wyndham Case By Jill Paton Walsh
Dramatised by Neville Teller. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, …
Blindfolded
Read by Roger Melin
Earle Ashley Walcott
Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. D…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
The Valley of Fear (Version 3)
Read by David Clarke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Receiving a mysterious cypher message from a Fred Porlock, apparent agent of the infamous Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson set about de…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Essays and Literary Studies
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Stephen Leacock
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…
R D. Wingfield Second Sight
Det-Insp Ford is called in to investigate what seems like an ordinary robbery at Lord Crombie's mansion; but when a clairvoyant claims he ca…