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The Stolen Melody, by Constance Fauntleroy Runcie

In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897

Read by Yaelin Lee


Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

The Master versus the Maker

In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922

Read by Yaelin Lee


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

Sanity of True Genius

In Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

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Charles Lamb


Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays written by Charles Lamb. The essays first began appearing in The London Magaz…

In the Alps by Théophile Gautier

In Greatest Wonders of the World

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Esther Singleton


A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers incl…

Summer Snow

In The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature

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Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner


A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by appealing to the reader's fancy, quicken…

How a Friend was Killed

In Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer

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Henry Dawson


Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are …

A German Deserter's War Experience

Read by Lee Smalley


Anonymoustranslated Byjulius Koettgen


The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

The Angel of Terror

Read by Lee Elliott


Edgar Wallace


When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …

The Golden Dream

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

Doctor Izard

Read by Lee Smalley


Anna Katharine Green


The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

The Permanent Husband

Read by Lee Smalley


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

The Bishop's Apron

Read by Lee Smalley


W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

The de Bercy Affair

Read by Lee Smalley


Louis Tracy


A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…

Diary of a Suicide

Read by Lee Smalley


Wallace E. Baker


“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about …

100%: The Story of a Patriot

Read by Lee Smalley


Upton Sinclair


"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

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Nat Love


Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …