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Chapter 3

In Leila; or The Island

Read by Marie Christian

Ann Fraser Tytler

The Island begins with a shipwreck in which eight-year-old Leila, her father, her nurse and their loyal dog, Dash, persevere through hard wo…

Out There Somewhere

In Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

Read by Clarisse Marie

Henry Herbert Knibbs

A poetry collection. The poem "Out There Somewhere" was extensively quoted in and was the basis for Edgar Rice Burroughs' story &q…

04 - SPY ROCK, Part 1

In The Blue Flower

Read by Marie Hoffman

Henry van Dyke

"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of …

Part 1, chapter 3: Old Eternity

In The Home of the Echoes

Read by Marie Christian

Frank W. Boreham

Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

When Wendy Grew Up

In Peter and Wendy (Version 2)

Read by Marie Christian

J. M. Barrie

"Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the well-known s…

The Real Obstacles

In The Catholic Church and Conversion

Read by Marie Christian

G. K. Chesterton

Written after his conversion, G.K. Chesterton explains his understanding of Catholicism, and discusses the nature and the process of convers…

Grûl's Gift, part 1

In By the Marshes of Minas

Read by Marie Christian

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…

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