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Chapter 4: A Party of Pleasure

In The House on the Scar

Read by Mari Wilson


Bertha Thomas


A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This autho…

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In The Blood of the Vampire

Read by Mari Wilson


Florence Marryat


The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Le Fanu's Camilla. Harriet is a vampire who kills ac…

Gilray's Flower-Pot

In My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke

Read by Mari Wilson


J. M. Barrie


J. M. Barrie, the author best known for Peter Pan, pens witty anecdotes of smoking, having quit the habit. He relates various humorous accou…

Cahoots

In The Heart of Happy Hollow (Version 2)

Read by Mari Wilson


Paul Laurence Dunbar


Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …

Pt. 1, Ch. 1: Our Maiden Aunts

In A Reel of Rainbow

Read by Mari Wilson


Frank W. Boreham


Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

Tom Chester's Silver Mine

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880

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Various


Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…

Murder in the Gunroom

Read by Anthony Wilson


H. Beam Piper


The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of h…

The Great Gatsby (version 2)

Read by Adrian Wilson


F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…

Endospore

Read by R.A. Wilson


R.A. Wilson


Alan is a virgin, but that is not a big problem for him with Tracy and Gwinn desiring his attentions. He has larger concerns on his mind. He…

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures

Read by Adrian Wilson


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figur…

Poems of Nature

Read by Larry Wilson


Henry David Thoreau


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

The Man with the Black Feather

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


Theophrastus Longuet is a retired manufacturer of rubber stamps in Paris. He now spends his days relaxing, safe from life’s vicissitudes. wi…

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

Read by Larry Wilson


Elisabeth G. Stryker


This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

No Man's Land

Read by Adrian Wilson


Sapper


This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could not publish books using their real names…

Clara A. Swain, M.D.

Read by Larry Wilson


Mrs. Robert Hoskins


This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." S…

The Dark Road: Further Adventures of Chéri-Bibi

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux's criminal mastermind Chéri-Bibi. When the story starts the "asto…

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Open Road", both from 1911. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

Read by Larry Wilson


John Dryden Kuser


This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…