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The Poet At Court

In Poems

Read by Sarah Wouters


Lady Jane Francesca Wilde


Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish natio…

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 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 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 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…

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…

When Jack and Jill Took a Hand

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

Read by Sarah Jennings


Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

Chapter XVI, Part 01

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 16)

Read by Sarah Jennings


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 3 chapter 16 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

3 - Other Explorers on the Bay

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay

Read by Sarah Jennings


Agnes C. Laut


The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the si…

1 Corinthians 7:39-40

In Commentary on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Volume 1

Read by Sarah Holtz


John Calvin


John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Calvin's writing and preachings provided the …