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At the Post of Duty

In Fighting the Flames

Read by Corey Paige


R. M. Ballantyne


Frank Willders is a brave young member of the London Fire Brigade - Willie is his mischievous but helpful younger brother. The two of them e…

Chapter XXXI - The School for Husbands

In Blind Love

Read by Corey Paige


Wilkie Collins


Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besan…

26 - Book 2, Chapter 8

In The History of Pompey the Little

Read by Paige Eissinger


Francis Coventry


"Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages." At an e…

Cannae

In The Young Carthaginian

Read by Paige G


G. A. Henty


Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagi…

Discovery of Sun-Spots

In Galileo

Read by Paige Summer


Walter W. Bryant


Galileo Galilei is considered the father of observational astronomy, modern science, the scientific method and modern-era classical physics.…

A Too One-Sided Poet

In Love Songs

Read by Paige Harris


George Graham Currie


This is a collection of love songs by Canadian-born Floridian Poet Laureate George Graham Currie. As poetry is the key to the hearts of many…

Other Girls

In The Camp Fire Girls' Careers

Read by Paige Eissinger


Margaret Vandercook


The next volume in the Camp Fire Series shall be known as "The Camp Fire Girls' Careers." The group of girls who first came togeth…

The Nix in mischief

In Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

Read by Paige Simpson


Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imag…

Succeeding Queens

In Predecessors of Cleopatra

Read by Paige Sevilla


Leigh North


This book provides such information as was known at the onset of the 20th Century about Egyptian queens in antiquity. Much has been learned …

The Squire's Tale

In The Chaucer Storybook

Read by Corey Matlak


Eva March Tappan and Geoffrey Chaucer


Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stor…

South America Part VI: The Argentine Republic: Historical note

In The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…

Read by Corey Kendrick


Eva March Tappan


This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…