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Story of the Lovers of Syria; Or, the Heroine

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 04

Read by M. Bradley Peters


Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The fourth and final volume of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in h…

The Swallow and other Birds

In Fables of Aesop and Others

Read by M. Bradley Peters


Aesop


The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that we may regar…

Seventh in Line

In The Red Runners

Read by M. Bradley Peters


Seckatary Hawkins


This Is one of the Hawkins series and a right good one at that! Big boys and little boys, manly and "yellow", all these figure in …

Mr. Dog at the Circus

In The Hollow Tree Snowed In Book

Read by M. Bradley Peters


Albert Bigelow Paine


Once upon a time, in the Big Deep Woods, there was a big hollow tree with three hollow branches. The tree animals living in each of these …

The Conspiracy

In An Earthman on Venus

Read by M. Bradley Peters


Ralph Milne Farley


When Myles Cabot accidentally transmitted himself to the planet Venus, he found himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every …

A Christmas Carol (version 05)

Read by Kyle M.


Charles Dickens


The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written…

The Haunted Bookshop

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Christopher Morley


Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…

The Fairy Tales of Science

Read by J. M. Smallheer


John Cargill Brough


This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…

Night and Day

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Virginia Woolf


Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…

The Old Man in the Corner

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…

The Sorceress of the Strand

Read by J. M. Smallheer


L. T. Meade


From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…

The House of a Thousand Candles

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Meredith Nicholson


A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…