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Childe Roland and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Browning


The title poem was inspired by various images which Browning saw while living in Italy, an old tower in the Carrara Mountains, a painting in…

Admirals All

Read by Alan Mapstone


Sir Henry Newbolt


A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…

Molly Brown's Freshman Days

Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson


Nell Speed


Molly Brown has left Kentucky for the first time, to enter Wellington University. She has much to learn about college life, but she meets m…

Molly Brown's Sophomore Days

Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson


Nell Speed


Molly Brown returns to her second year of college at Wellington. Along with her friends at Queen's Cottage, she struggles and triumphs over…

The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods

Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson


St. George Henry Rathborne


The Silver Fox Patrol is headed for the Maine woods for their next adventure! The trip will including hunting and fire starting, and a few …

The Red Cross Girls With The Russian Army

Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson


Margaret Vandercook


Red Cross girls Nona, Mildred, and Barbara continue their nursing on the unfamiliar Russian frontier. In the course of their work, Mildred e…

The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory

Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson


Margaret Vandercook


This novel set in the time of WWI, is the 8th in a series of 10. The lives and adventures of these heroic young women change rapidly as they…

The World of Unicellular

Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll


"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Enchanted Castle

Read by Peter Eastman


E. Nesbit


Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …

The People of the Abyss

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jack London


Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Read by Peter Bobbe


James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…

Grim Tales

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. Nesbit


A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…

The King in Yellow (part 1)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

Read by Peter Yearsley


Edwin Benson


A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Read by Peter Kelleher


Jack London


Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

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