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Chapter 11 - Mysterious Rooms, Deadly Pits etc.

In Secret Chambers and Hiding Places

Read by Peter Yearsley


Allan Fea


“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …

Chapter 01

In A Princess of Mars

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E. R. Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs


Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandi…

Bread, &c.;

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Read by Peter Yearsley


Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

Chapter 09

In Death Be Not Proud

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John Donne


This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remembe…

Version 6

In A Noiseless Patient Spider

Read by Peter Yearsley


whitman_w and Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by An…

Jazz Fantasia - Read by PY

In Jazz Fantasia

Read by Peter Yearsley


Carl Sandburg


As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…

Chapter 05

In Beowulf

Read by Peter Yearsley


Tr. Francis Barton Gummere, Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere


This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…

Blue Light, The

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

A Castle and No Dinner

In Five Children and It

Read by Peter Yearsley


nesbit_e and E. Nesbit


This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

Preface to Vol. 1 and Canon Alberic

In Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…

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