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Old Mother Holle, from Grimm

In Favorite Fairy Tales Retold

Read by Jessica Allen


Julia Darrow Cowles


In this volume, Ms. Cowles has collected her favourite fairy tales and retold them for children. All of the most famous authors are represen…

Chapter Eleven

In Dodo's Daughter

Read by Jessica Allen


E. F. Benson


The second in the "Dodo" sequence of novels. (Summary by Crowgirl)

The Red Shoes

In Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

Read by Jessica Allen


Hans Christian Andersen


This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as …

The Warden (version 2)

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged eccles…

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

Cats by the Way

Read by Jessica Louise


Sarah E. Trueblood


Between these pages you will find only the good, old-fashioned, every-day cat. No Angora or thoroughbred has been entered here, unless it be…

Highways in Hiding

Read by Jessica Martin


George O. Smith


Mechanical engineer Steve Cornell lives in a world where ESP and telepathy are normal, and a spreading plague called Mekstrom’s Disease turn…

In the Wilderness (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


Charles Dudley Warner


Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

Fried Green Zombies

Read by John Allen


John Allen


Chett and Harry are two recently unemployed construction workers on their way to a weekend of beer, Southern Comfort, and frog gigging at th…

The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

Read by George Allen


Virgil


The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Donal Grant

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…

Malcolm

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…

Little Miss Grasshopper

Read by Devorah Allen


Johanna Spyri


The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…

Symbolism

Read by Jeff Allen


Johann Adam Möhler


Johann Adam Möhler was professor theology at the Tübingen University where both Catholics and Protestants taught and studied. In 1…

Dymer

Read by Devorah Allen


C. S. Lewis


This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print un…

Human Sacrifice

Read by Jeff Allen


John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton


This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord…

The Marquis of Lossie

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


This book is the sequel to Malcolm.Having now learned the truth of his own parentage, and some important facts regarding the birth of his la…

My Brother's Story

Read by Allen Johnson Jr.


Allen Johnson Jr.


The Blackwater Novels are set in the 1930s along the Blackwater Swamp, near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia. Get in trouble with t…

The Basis Of Morality

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Arthur Schopenhauer


In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fou…