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The North Wind and The Sun

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25)

Read by Alice Elizabeth Still


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

07 - The Lion and the Unicorn

In Through the Looking-Glass

Read by Alice Elizabeth Still


Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land …

The Snow Queen

In Andersen's Fairy Tales

Read by Alice Elizabeth Still


Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of eighteen fairy tales - some popular, some lesser known - by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen.(Summary by Gesine)

Dolly and I: Story for Little Folks

Read by Victoria Alice Bell


Oliver Optic


Katherine Green an envious girl is given a pretty doll by her Aunt Jane. Christmastime is approaching... Nellie Green her sister who is quit…

Emma (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much li…

The Children of Odin

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Pádraic Colum


Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the advent…

Lady Audley's Secret

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…

Jane Eyre (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Charlotte Brontë


Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governes…

Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…

Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

Persuasion (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied …

Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …

Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…

The Turn of the Screw (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Henry James


Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…

The House of Mirth

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in ric…

A Room with a View (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


E. M. Forster


The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While stayi…

Howards End

Read by Elizabeth Klett


E. M. Forster


The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of …