Single Author Collections
The Stoneground Ghost Tales
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Edmund Gill Swain
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…
Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life
Read by Alan Winterrowd
Richard Marsh
Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill …
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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Edward Everett Hale
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasio…
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franc…
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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Mark Twain
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)
Just Sixteen
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Susan Coolidge
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjo…
Songs of the Road
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…
Tales of Three Hemispheres
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Lord Dunsany
Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Lu…
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
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Sir Walter Scott
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Read by Linda Leu
Robert Bridges
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…
Wine, Water and Song
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of 16 poems by G.K. Chesterton. All of the poems in this book, except for "The Strange Ascetic" are taken from "…
Beauties of Tennyson
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A collection of Tennyson's poetry : 1 The Brook - 00:16 2 Song from "Maud" - 1:20 3 A Farewell - 2:34 4 Song from “Maud” - 3:26…
The Garden of Love
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William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figur…
Ebony and Crystal
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Clark Ashton Smith
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories
Read by Phil Chenevert
Amy Walton
These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with …
South Sea Tales
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Jack London
The eight short stories that comprise South Sea Tales are powerful tales that vividly evoke the early 1900’s colonial South Pacific islands.…
A Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A …
On the Iron at Big Cloud
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank L. Packard
Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- t…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Bliss Carman
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…