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The Tale of Grandfather Mole
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books.Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newar…
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
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John Burroughs
Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, f…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Companionable Books
Read by MaryAnn
Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
Robert Kimberly
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Frank H. Spearman
The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …
The Circular Study
Read by Jacquerie
Anna Katharine Green
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…
The Willows
Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
Algernon Blackwood
A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably we…
Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable
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Lucy Aikin
All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer…
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Read by Adam Whybray
W. N. P. Barbellion
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …
The Man Who Knew
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
Saul Arthur Mann is a meticulous and eccentric individual. His life revolves around the gathering of every fact and statistic he can possibl…
Christy
Read by Michael Thomas Cunningham
Michael Thomas Cunningham
A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home.
Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of…
Whose Body? (Version 3 - dramatic reading)
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Dorothy L. Sayers
In Dorothy Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, our brilliant and eccentric hero must solve the case of the murder of Sir Reuben Levy - th…
The Tale of Daddy Long Legs
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, …
The Courage of the Commonplace
Read by Roger Melin
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The short story of a young man who came to terms with himself and became a man on a day when he had proven to be a failure to his family, hi…
Little Blue Book 646: The Spirit of Brazilian Literature
Read by KevinS
Isaac Goldberg
One of the many Little Blue Books published to make learning available to all. These were short, informative, and inexpensive books that dis…
The Old Church Clock
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Richard Parkinson
A fictional "history" of Robert Walker, a dedicated clergyman in the English Lake District, this work, which started as a short ma…
Village Life in America
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Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke
A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)
A Battle of the Books
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Gail Hamilton
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…