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Chapter XXVII
Read by Phil Benson
Louis Couperus
In The Later Life
Set in the stifling world of turn of the century Dutch aristocracy, the second volume of the 'Books of the Small Souls' quartet, begins wher…
Le Prince Errant
Read by Jonathan Paul Arnold
Maurice Baring
In Poems, 1914-1919
This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly…
Introductory
Read by Bruce Pirie
Frederick Philip Grove
In Over Prairie Trails
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …
Poor Philip
Read by Jim Locke
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In The Lady's Mile
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Chapters 6-9
Read by Lauren Huff
William Morris
In A Dream of John Ball
A Dream of John Ball recounts a dream of being transported back in time to 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt as John Ball and an army of peas…
Simon Phillips
Read by David Onley
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
From Letters
Read by Cbteddy
George MacDonald and Sir Philip Sidney
In A Cabinet of Gems
A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…
Michaelmas
Read by Alan Mapstone
Charles Williams
In Poems of Conformity
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …
An occasional Prologue
Read by De Anna Lee
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Thoughts suggested by the foregoing Remarks
Read by William Bruce McFadden
Thomas Erskine
In The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel
This is a work of theology which addresses a seeming contradiction in Christian thought: that love and forgiveness are freely offered to all…
The Streamlet, Observations and Comments and Leon Czolgosz by Max Baginski
Read by Agnes Robert Behr
Various
In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 8, October 1906
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mo…
Philip Takes Drastic Measures
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Mrs. Coulson Kernahan and Jeanie Gwynne Kernahan
In The Thirteenth Man
Philip Barrimore is driven to distraction by his uncle, who has taken up residence in his mother's home. Against all advice, he takes a cott…
Review, C. S. & M. A., The Bookshelf
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …