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Chapters 50-51

In Pride and Prejudice

Read by Eileen aka e

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It …

Two New Novels (May 15, 1885)

In Reviews

Read by John Rose

Oscar Wilde, ed. Robert Ross and Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

The First Half-Hour (p. 112)

In Round the Moon

Read by Leonie Rose

Jules Verne

Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left t…

Chapter 08

In The Colors of Space

Read by Leonie Rose

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bart Steele, Space Academy graduate, is on his way home to his father's business - he runs a fleet of spaceships for interstellar travel. Th…

New France In 1665

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon…

Read by John Rose

Thomas Chapais

Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat …

My Lord Bag of Rice

In Japanese Fairy Tales

Read by John Rose

Yei Theodora Ozaki

First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…

08 - Tor-tu

In Life in a Thousand Worlds

Read by Leonie Rose

William Shuler Harris

A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer o…

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