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04 The Departure

In Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story

Read by Patrick Wells

Charles Ross Jackson

There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…

Preface

In Music Talks With Children

Read by Patrick Wells

Thomas Tapper

"A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a fe…

The Death-Bed of a Saint

In Life of Saint Gerard Majella

Read by Emerson Wells

Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips

Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and hu…

Introduction

In How to Appreciate Music

Read by Patrick Wells

Gustav Kobbé

Originally published in 1906, this book is essentially a how to guide on music appreciation. Includes sections on the pianoforte, orchestral…

10 - How the Monkey Got a Drink When He Was Thirsty

In Fairy Tales from Brazil

Read by Patrick Wells

Elsie Spicer Eells

This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…

06 - [Part I. The History of Atlantis]: Chapter V. The Testimony of the Sea.

In Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Read by Patrick Wells

Ignatius Loyola Donnelly

"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born i…

09 - The Last Night

In Insurgent Mexico

Read by Patrick Wells

John Reed

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

Book 1, Chapter 1

In Off on a Comet

Read by Patrick Wells

Jules Verne

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various natio…

Chapter XII

In The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Read by Patrick Wells

Samuel G Goodrich

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