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The Monkhood 1
Read by VfkaBT
Harold Fielding and Harold Fielding Hall
In The Soul of a People
In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, e…
STEVENSON, ALDRICH, ETC. (Florence, April, 1904)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I
While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st centur…
Introduction
Read by Larry Wilson
John Milton Gregory
In The Seven Laws of Teaching
If we analyze carefully a full and perfect act of teaching, we shall find it involves seven distinct elements, or parties and parts—two acto…
Volume II - Chapter V
Read by Ryan Bassette
Sir Walter Scott
In Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer
Guy Mannering is a young astrologer, just down from Oxford. While travelling in Scotland, he loses his way and unexpectedly comes to stay at…
Duns Scotus’s Oxford
Read by MichaelMaggs
Gerard Manley Hopkins
In Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was one of the most innovative of English Victorian poets, best known now for his vivid and original image…
Christy
Read by Michael Thomas Cunningham
Michael Thomas Cunningham
A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home. Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of…
30 - Chapter XXV: News from England
Read by Piper Hayes
Sir Walter Scott
In Waverley, Volume 1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…
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…
October
Read by Patrick Wallace
A. A. Milne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edward Thomas
In Coffee Break Collection 009 - Autumn
This is the ninth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…
The Wood Witch
Read by Matthew D. Robinson
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
A Biographical Sketch of the Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Read by Devorah Allen
Henry Winter Syle
In A to Zed Collection Vol. 001
A collection of pieces, both fiction and non-fiction, that have as its subject a word beginning with a specific letter of the English alphab…
Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Read by Richard Reiman
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Hound of the Baskervilles (Version 6)
The baronet of Baskerville Hall is found dead, possibly a victim of a supernatural hound, the fulfillment of an old family legend. Holmes an…
A Thought
Read by Kathleen Moore
Robert Louis Stevenson
In A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)
A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern…
Dedication of Basil Faber; Preface of Dr John George Walch
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Martin Luther
In Commentary on Genesis, Volume 1
LUTHER ON THE CREATION: A CRITICAL AND DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY ON GENESIS by Martin Luther, hero of the Reformation, the greatest of the Teuto…
Chapter X: The Sentinel
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
In Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is a historical novel set in the mid-1400's. The main character is a Scottish archer serving French King Louis XI, another m…
NEXT TO READING MATTER
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Extract from Adam's Diary
Read by Phil Chenevert
Mark Twain
In The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. T…
Peter Martin's Problem
Read by Bob R
Harold Bell Wright
In Helen of the Old House
Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …
Chapter V, Parents and Children, Part 2
Read by Steve C
Thomas Holmes
In Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…
His new home
Read by Dawn Sutton
George MacDonald
In A Rough Shaking
Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …