Dramatic Readings
The Railway Children (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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E. Nesbit
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are suddenly yanked out of their comfortable lives and removed to live in the country with only their mother and …
The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules
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Josephine Turck Baker
Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…
The Carved Cupboard (Dramatic Reading)
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Amy Le Feuvre
Agatha, Gwen, Clare and Elfie have always been told that they will inherit their aunt's house. But when their aunt dies, she leaves it all t…
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)
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Amelia E. Barr
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading)
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Charles Goddard
The Perils of Pauline is one of the first damsel in distress serials. The story is complete with undaunted hero, courageous damsel, unscrupu…
Rose O' The River
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from…
The Princess and the Goblin (Dramatic Reading)
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George MacDonald
The story of a Princess named Irene, and her adventure with a boy named Curdie Peterson. Princess Irene meets her grandmother, and Irene wan…
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Alessandro Manzoni
One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and…
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
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Mark Twain
Please note: this recording contains strong language."1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes …
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading)
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Frances Browne
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book …
The Royal Book of Oz (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
When the professor decides to outline the ancestry of the eminent people of Oz, Scarecrow feels left out. He doesn't have a family tree - un…
Just So Stories (version 6 Dramatic Reading)
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Rudyard Kipling
The Just So Stories generally have the theme of a particular animal being altered from an original form to its current form by the acts of h…
Strange Pages from Family Papers
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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)
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Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…
Highacres (Dramatic Reading)
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Jane D. Abbott
The story of a young mountain girl and her first year of city living and going to a high school. She knows nothing of town life, but she had…
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…
Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading)
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Rupert Hughes
What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. O…
The Curse of Capistrano (Dramatic Reading)
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Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley
The Curse of Capistrano is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (the Spanish word for "fox"). The story was lat…
Michael Strogoff (Dramatic Reading)
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Jules Verne
At a fete in the New Palace, the court seems to be in perfect order. Only two people know the truth: the telegraph wire beyond Tomsk, connec…