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DEDICATION: To Alison Cunningham
Read by MichaelMaggs
Robert Louis Stevenson
In A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 4)
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…
His Pa
Read by Patti Cunningham
Edgar A. Guest
In All That Matters
A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherh…
Echoes
Read by MichaelMaggs
Lewis Carroll
In Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …
Camp Cunningham
Read by Tom Penn
Henry Wallace Phillips
In Trolley Folly
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…
Friday, March 22, 1906 - Susy's biography.--Langdon's illness and death.--Susy on meeting Dr. John Brown, Charles Kingsley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Thomas Hardy, Henry Irving, Robert Browning, Sir Charles Dilke, Charles Reade, William Black, Lord Houghton, Frank Buckland, Tom Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Tom Hood, Dr. Macdonald, and Harrison Ainsworth.--Clemens meets Lewis Carroll--Luncheon at Lord Houghton's.--Letters from Mr. and Mrs. Clemens to Dr. Brown.
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume II
While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st centur…
Morning by John Cunningham
Read by Tomas Peter
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
2-6 A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D.
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…
The Bishop's Library
Read by Nick Whitley
Anthony Trollope
In Barchester Towers (version 2)
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…
"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
His Religious Life
Read by S. Patrick Cunningham
Edward Bok
In Successward: A Young Man's Book for Young Men
A short book on how to succeed in life, written by a young man, for young men. - Summary by TriciaG
Mr. Crow Looks On
Read by larryhayes7
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Nimble Deer
Another Sleepy Time Tale from Arthur Scott Bailey, this time Nimble Deer is the focus of the story and how he was such a tiny, frail, spotte…
A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson MD
Read by David Clarke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In A Study In Scarlet (Version 6)
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detectiv…
A New Beecher Church
Read by Ben Tucker
Mark Twain
In A Curious Dream and Other Sketches
Celebrated American humorist Mark Twain delivers a delightful collection of the witty stories for which he is so well known. From the stran…
The Oaks Grove
Read by Michael J. Parry
Michael J. Parry
It was going to be a quiet weekend in the country. Elanore was going to spend it chatting with courtly gents about matters of higher importa…
Chapter XIV: Mr Papingay’s House in the Orange Wood
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Marion St. John Webb
In Knock Three Times!
“Jack and Molly were twins, and this was their ninth birthday. Such a happy, exciting day it had been; it felt like a birthday all day long,…
The Reader
Read by Ben Tucker
Robert Louis Stevenson
In Fables
Master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped) brings us an entrancing and at times quite…
Bishop Speech - Between October 5 and 17, 1907
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2
This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and publish…
Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed
Read by KevinS
Carl Sandburg
In The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Read by Johnny Wong
Charles F. Horne
In Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2
A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Marsha…
The American Robin
Read by Chad Jackson
Various
In Birds, Vol. I, No 2, February 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…