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In The Iron Horse

Read by Jay Wills


R. M. Ballantyne


“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thi…

Chapter 30- The Last

In Post Haste

Read by Jay Wills


R. M. Ballantyne


In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …

Chapter I

In Windsor Castle, Book 6

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 6 - Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as …

Chapter IV

In Windsor Castle, Book 5

Read by Jay Wills


William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 5 - Mabel Lyndwood. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn a…

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills


Herman Melville


Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

Read by Stewart Wills


Joseph Conrad


A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2

Read by Dave Wills


George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46…

Hidden Harbor Mysteries

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Jay Smith


Hidden Harbor, USA. It is a time of war and hardship for millions of Americans, many of whom live in a city of lies and corruption. But the…

The Lord's Prayer paraphrased in the Words of the Assembly

In A Collection of Family Prayers

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Samuel Palmer


That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…

Book 1, Chapters 4-5

In Hard Times

Read by Stewart Wills


Charles Dickens


Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

Letter Writing

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Rosalind Wills


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Bk 3, Paradise: Canto XII - Canto XVI

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Rosalind Wills


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

Read by Rosalind Wills


Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…