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14 - In the Diving Suits

In Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

Read by Tammy T.


Victor Appleton


Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to us…

THE TRANCE (2000 words)

In The Sleeper Awakes

Read by Tammy Sanders


H. G. Wells


The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…

Life at the Mines

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fie…

Read by Tammy Porter


Agnes C. Laut


Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…

Chapter 47

In North and South

Read by Marie


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relo…

Panel 1 | Preludes and Explanations: The Egyptian Labour Movement and the Politi…

In The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On

Read by Marie Duboc


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Lady Margaret's Song by Edward Dowden

In The Book of Irish Poetry, part II

Read by Rachel Marie


Varioustranslated Byalfred Perceval Graves


A collection of Irish poetry, edited and largely translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. This is the second and final part of the book. - Sum…

LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF PUPILS

In Strength and How to Obtain It

Read by Marie Christian


Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

26 - The Astor Family

In The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

Read by Marie Hoffman


Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard


John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…

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…

A BOY’S RACE WITH GENERAL GRANT AT EPHESUS

In Wonder Stories of Travel

Read by Marie Christian


E. E. Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker and Eliot McCormick


A curiously interesting collection of folkloric tales and firsthand accounts written by global travelers for 19th century periodicals; compi…

Lillian Morris - Chapter 4

In Lillian Morris, and Other Stories

Read by Marie Christian


Henryk Sienkiewicz


The nights were real Californian: calm, warm, starry; the fire burned cheerily, and in its gleam I saw the gigantic, but shapely and noble f…

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