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On Personal Character, part 1

In The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Read by Helen Falconer

William Hazlitt

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…

01 - Chapter 1: LUCK ENOUGH

In The Missing Bride

Read by Helen Falconer

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Prepare yourself for a journey, full of adventures and plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very end. This is psychological ro…

03 - The Adventure of the Inquisitive American

In Miss Cayley's Adventures

Read by Helen Falconer

Grant Allen

Fun stories of Miss Lois Cayley, independent young woman, as she, beginning with only twopence in her pocket, travels the world. (Summary by…

The Flight - Read by GF

In The Flight

Read by Helen Falconer

Lloyd Mifflin

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Flight by Lloyd Mifflin.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 19, 2011.Lloyd Miffli…

Book 1, chapter 1

In The Dead Secret

Read by Helen Falconer

Wilkie Collins

"Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? w…

28 - Part 4, Chapter 1

In Come Rack! Come Rope!

Read by Helen Falconer

Robert Hugh Benson

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. …

Vanity Fair (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor

William Makepeace Thackeray

One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Enchanted April (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holi…

The Benefactress

Read by Helen Taylor

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

The Story of the Amulet

Read by Helen Taylor

E. Nesbit

The third of the series featuring Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane: four children who are, as they often say, "the sort of people that wo…