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The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In In Old Plantation Days
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …
The Silver Bullet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Fergus Hume
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the ligh…
Barnaby Rudge
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven…
Dialogue
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Inscription and foreword
Read by Peter Tucker
Sir Walter Scott
In The Lay of the Last Minstrel
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
On Our Selection
Read by Son of the Exiles
Steele Rudd
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…
Jim Smiley's Frog
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 2
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…
Christmas With Jim’s Friends, Chapter Eight, of Harbor Jim Of Newfoundland
Read by David Wales
Alden Eugene Bartlett
In Fireside Christmas Short Stories
A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection …
Maggie Mials
Read by Jim Locke
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Section 2
Read by Russ Hobbs
John Henry Newman
In The Dream of Gerontius
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kind…
Dickens in the Camp
Read by Larry Hansen
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Jim Brown
Read by Ralph Klapis
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Snowy Peter
Read by Claire Schreuder
Susan Coolidge
In Just Sixteen
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjo…
A Letter from Tasmania
Read by Anya
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Scenes 11: Astley's
Read by Eddie Winter
Charles Dickens
In Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…
Deacon Marble
Read by Larry Wilson
Henry Ward Beecher
In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…
A warning to the curious
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
In A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (Version 2)
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
Skiddoo!
Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh and George V. Hobart
John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…
Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, The
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1…