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De L'Orme

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…

The Smuggler

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The county of Kent, situated in the south eastern corner of England is ideally placed for the smugglers' trade. Close to London, with its ma…

Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2

Read by Lynne T


Francis Marion Crawford


Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy pare…

Agnes Sorel

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…

The Forgery

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…

Arabella Stuart

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…

Patience Worth

Read by Lynne T


Casper S. Yost


Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. …

Agincourt: A Romance

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …

The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…

Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art

Read by Lynne T


William Henry Holmes


A study of ceramics in the Americas: its form, function and ornamentation as well as its history. Produced by the Smithsonian's Department o…

Richelieu: A Tale of France

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…

Lord Montagu's Page

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…

The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…

Arrah Neil; or, Times of Old

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


During his lifetime, James published an estimated 100 novels. Arrah Neil was published some 40 years after his death. In this historical nov…

The World of Unicellular

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Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll


"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Enchanted Castle

Read by Peter Eastman


E. Nesbit


Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …

The People of the Abyss

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jack London


Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Read by Peter Bobbe


James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

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