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We Take a View of the Ice

In The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


William Clark Russell


Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

The Winter Term

In A Prefect's Uncle

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


P. G. Wodehouse


The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arriv…

Thomas Weelkes

In Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


Frederick Bridge


Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS

Farewell, Wife and Children Dear

In Mary Anerley

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


Richard Doddridge Blackmore


It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…

Confidence

In Complete Poems

Read by Sophia


Anne Brontë


Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…

Ecco che un'altra volta

In Antologia di poetesse italiane

Read by Sophia


Isabella di Morra


Poesie di: Compiuta Donzella (fl. seconda metà del duecento) Nina Siciliana (fl. 1290)* Ricciarda de' Selvaggi (? - 1313)* Eleonora…

“Pike’s Peak or Bust”

In Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail

Read by Sophia H.


Edwin L. Sabin


Buffalo Bill Cody is one of the most colorful figures of the early American West. In these adventures we find Billy Cody at age 13 earning …

Jesus Before Annas

In Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old

Read by Sophia Field


Jesse Lyman Hurlbut


Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old is a detailed, chronological presentation of the life of Christ, relying heavily on quoted portio…

The Simpleton and his Little Black Hen

In The Wonder Clock

Read by Sophia Noelle


Howard Pyle


"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…

‘More Faithful than Favoured’ by Miss Eleanor Sellar

In The Animal Story Book

Read by Sophia Kaushik


Various


Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous s…

Bk 04 Ch 03

In Les Misérables, Volume 3

Read by Sophia Choi


Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…

Chapter 16

In The Woodlanders

Read by Sophia Choi


Thomas Hardy


The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, …