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O, a Beautiful Thing Is the Flower That Fadeth!

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Read by George Emerson


Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

Georgic I

In The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

Three Points and the Paper

In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922

Read by Nicola Jablow


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

The Mass

In The Catholic's Ready Answer

Read by Emerson Wells


Rev. M.P. Hill and Rev. M. P. Hill


A popular vindication of Christian beliefs and practices against the attacks of modern criticism. Ninety-eight topics, in alphabetical order…

Characteristics of Different Animals

In The Training of Wild Animals

Read by Nicola Jablow


Frank Charles Bostock


Today, performing animals are frowned on by many but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, traveling menageries afforded entertainment …

A Long Vacation

In Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb

Read by Laurel Emerson


David Cory


David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…

The Giant Maiden - Germany

In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 02

Read by Laurel Emerson


Marie Harriette Frary


This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn

In Legends of Saints and Sinners

Read by Laurel Emerson


Douglas Hyde


"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …

IV. DOM GALORS

In The Forest Lovers

Read by Nicola Lake


Maurice Henry Hewlett


My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…

The Death-Bed of a Saint

In Life of Saint Gerard Majella

Read by Emerson Wells


Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips


Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and hu…

The Little Hurts

In Rhymes of Childhood

Read by Laurel Emerson


Edgar A. Guest


Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …

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