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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Gerald Bullett

Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth - Read by JDB

In Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…

Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor

In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Various

The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…

A Deed of Mercy

In Short Story Collection Vol. 063

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Lord Dunsany

This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Authors include Saki, Lord Dunsany, Rudyard Kipling, Re…

Letter 48 Belford

In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Samuel Richardson

It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…

The End of All

In Short Science Fiction Collection 055

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

James Stamers and Andrew Carpenter Wheeler

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Game of Life by John Godfrey Saxe

In The Coo-ee Reciter

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

John Godfrey Saxe

Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practic…