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In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

Read by Sarah Prusoff


Frances Burney


The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

004 - Book I, Chapter 4

In Camilla

Read by Sarah Prusoff


Frances Burney


Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…

19 – Book 5 A Fine Bit Of Work Chapter 1

In The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Read by Sarah Prusoff


Baroness Emma Orczy


Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, T…

30 - Chapter XXX

In The Egoist

Read by Sarah Prusoff


George Meredith


The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…

The Blazing World

Read by Sarah Terry


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish


The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …

How to Camp Out

Read by Sarah Jennings


John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (version 3)

Read by Sarah Hill


E. Nesbit


This story follows the six Bastable Children; Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius, on their adventures to help their widowe…

The Spirit of the Curé of Ars

Read by Sarah Cain


Alfred Monnin


St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…

The Pearl Necklace, part 2

In Deeds of Daring done by Girls

Read by Sarah


Hannah Hudson Moore


Do not think, dear girls, that because you are girls you may not have as much courage as your brothers. I believe that quite as stout hearts…

The Burghers' Gathering

In The Poetry of South Africa

Read by Sarah


Alexander Wilmot


Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…

The Tell-Tale Heart

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015

Read by Sarah


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Storyteller

In Ballads of Peace in War

Read by Sarah


Michael Earls


This is a collection of poetry by Michael Earls, a Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. This collection of poetry concer…

Peace by Leslie Phillips Jones

In Oxford Poetry 1915

Read by Sarah Brown


Various


The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…

The Beasts In The Void

In Short Science Fiction Collection 076

Read by Sarah Angelici


Paul W. Fairman


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

My friend, Walker, by Geraldine Meyrick

In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896

Read by Sarah Angelici


Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

The Lyric Poets

In Feminism in Greek Literature

Read by Sarah Lorenowich


Frederick Adam Wright


This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer…