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Chapter 26 - Through carnage to joy

In A Princess of Mars (Version 4)

Read by Terry Kroenung

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Confederate soldier travels to Mars and is embroiled in its politics and wars, becoming a great swordsman and hero. - Summary by Terry Kro…

18 - Chapter XVIII: ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE

In The Marble Faun

Read by Terry Goodyer

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical …

The Dwarf's Gifts

In In The Days of Giants

Read by Sarah Terry

Abbie Farwell Brown

This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…

The Magical Bond of the Sea

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903

Read by Terry Goodyer

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

The Romance of a Mummy - Prologue, Part 1

In The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

Read by Sarah Terry

Théophile Gautier

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…

Billy, the Christmas Tree, and the Irishwoman

In Billy Whiskers Jr.

Read by Cindy Terry

Frances Trego Montgomery

This is one of the early Billy Whiskers books where he bears the title, “Junior.” Billy jumps the fence on the farm and heads west for adv…

Chapter 17

In The Romance of the Forest

Read by Terry Hergesheimer

Ann Radcliffe

A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …

Prologue

In His Wisdom, the Defender: A Story

Read by Terry Kroenung

Simon Newcomb

A millionaire genius invents a flying armored suit, a la Iron Man. - Summary by Terry Kroenung

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