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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde artwork

Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) published two short collections of aphorisms: “A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated”, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and “Phrases and Philosoph...
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen artwork

Love and Friendship by Jane Austen

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Begun when she was just eleven years old, Love and Friendship is one of Jane Austen's stories that very few readers may have encountered before. Austen experts feel that this story was written, l...
Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott artwork

Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
“If you don’t like Christmas stories, don’t read this one!And if you don’t like dogs I don’t know just what to advise you to do!For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and dis...
When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson artwork

When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils needed for the preparation of each dish.
Adventures of a Brownie as Told to My Child by Miss Mulock artwork

Adventures of a Brownie as Told to My Child by Miss Mulock

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family’s coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. (Written by Ancilla)
Lady Susan by Jane Austen artwork

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
An epistolary novel, Lady Susan is an early work by Austen that was posthumously published in 1871. The short novel focuses on the self-serving eponymous anti-heroine, as she cunningly maneuvers he...
Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum artwork

Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The “Little Wizard Stories of Oz” are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with “The Emerald City of Oz,” published in 1910. Fo...
Voodoo Planet by Plague Ship artwork

Voodoo Planet by Plague Ship

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit...
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster artwork

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen year old orphan, faces an uncertain future in the charity home where she has lived all her life. On reaching adulthood, the orphanage can no longer offer shelter to its ...
American Indian Fairy Tales by H. R. Schoolcraft artwork

American Indian Fairy Tales by H. R. Schoolcraft

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
This book features a series of short stories collected by renowned ethnologist Henry R. Schoolcraft. The stories are adapted from old Native American legends with the aim to protect their authenti...
William the Conqueror by Jacob Abbott artwork

William the Conqueror by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of...
Nine Unlikely Tales for Children by Edith Nesbit artwork

Nine Unlikely Tales for Children by Edith Nesbit

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence and the dreadful automatic nagging machine. All are class...
Fighting the Whales by Robert Michael Ballantyne artwork

Fighting the Whales by Robert Michael Ballantyne

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it’s also ...
Short Science Fiction Collection by Various artwork

Short Science Fiction Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future scien...
Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper artwork

Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 7 ratings
This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a s...
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling artwork

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Real men don’t take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the “We’re Here”, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the ...
An American Robinson Crusoe by Samuel B. Allison artwork

An American Robinson Crusoe by Samuel B. Allison

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents’ wishes. The ship (and all of its crew) is lost in a s...
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll artwork

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
If you've read and loved Alice in Wonderland, you wouldn't want to miss reading about her further adventures, the strange and fantastical creatures she meets and the delightful style and word-play ...
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit artwork

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 10 ratings
The first book in the Psammead Trilogy, Five Children and It follows the fantastical adventures of five siblings who encounter an outlandish creature with a strange ability to grant wishes. Though ...
American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum artwork

American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect ...
Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott artwork

Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 25 ratings
The history of a woman who rose above and beyond tragedy, grief and personal loss to become one of the most powerful figures in sixteenth century Europe is wonderfully told in this biography Queen ...
Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott artwork

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
The French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal once remarked, “Cleopatra's nose. Had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed!” Such was the legendary power and...
Helen's Babies by John Habberton artwork

Helen's Babies by John Habberton

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Harry Burton, salesman of white-goods, bachelor of twenty-eight leads a charmed existence. A letter from his sister, Helen changes his life forever. She and her husband have been invited for a holi...
This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall artwork

This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 4 ratings
History made interesting for young readers—This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall provides a simple and easy to comprehend way of looking at the history of the United States. Arrange...
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells artwork

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
A science fiction novel first published in 1895, The Time Machine was the first depiction of time travel, and the reason Wells consequently coined the term “time machine” which is now universally r...
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner artwork

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is scarcely older than the oldest child of the family. A favou...
What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge artwork

What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll artwork

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
An acclaimed children’s classic depicting the odd, but riveting journeys of the curious Alice as she explores the surreal world of Wonderland. Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or better known un...
More William by Richmal Crompton artwork

More William by Richmal Crompton

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
An eleven year old who remains eleven for more than half a century! As a literary creation, Richmal Crompton's scalawag schoolboy has few peers. Along with his notorious gang of Outlaws, William Br...
Bed Time Stories for Aidan Christopher by Unknown artwork

Bed Time Stories for Aidan Christopher by Unknown

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Bed Time Stories is a collection of 14 short stories especially for young children.