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Letter XXII

In Letters from the West

Read by Ted Lienhart

James Hall

James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…

13 - Much Shall Have More and Little Shall Have Less

In Twilight Land

Read by Ted Nugent

Howard Pyle

The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Al…

The Sitting Hen and the Incubator

In Making Home Profitable

Read by Ted Lienhart

Kate Saint Maur

A new life in the country was another chance for Kate Saint Maur and her husband after a business failure left them in dire straits in the c…

05 - The Utility of Religion, Part 01

In Three Essays on Religion

Read by Ted Garvin

John Stuart Mill

The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature'…

17 - A Pink-Ribbon Trail

In Miss Billy

Read by Ted Nugent

Eleanor H. Porter

Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, …

16 - Book 1, Chapters 41 - 42

In Amadis of Gaul

Read by Ted Garvin

Vasco de Lobeira and Vasco De Lobeira

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th…

02 - OF SORROW

In Essays book 1

Read by Ted Garvin

Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

From Manchurian to the Pamirs

In The Romance of Modern Exploration

Read by Ted Lienhart

Archibald Williams

It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…

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