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The Favor of Kings

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Mary Hastings Bradley


"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…

The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

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Martin A. S. Hume


King Henry VIII is so often depicted as a far-seeing statesman, pressing forward through a lifetime with his eyes firmly fixed upon the goal…

An Essay on Man

Read by Martin Geeson


Alexander Pope


Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…

Cornelli

Read by Jael Baldwin


Johanna Spyri


Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 08

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee


Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"“Who is he?” I asked.“The worst man in London,” Holmes answered, as he sat down and stretched his legs before the fire." And so…

Idols

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The novel centres around four people: Gerard and Irene Merriam, their inseparable friend Hugh Colman who once saved Gerard’s life, and Minna…

The Wyndham Case By Jill Paton Walsh



Dramatised by Neville Teller. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, …

Anne Severn and the Fieldings

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May Sinclair


Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literat…

Sanctuary

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Edith Wharton


Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…

The Man to Be

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Edgar A. Guest


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Man to Be by Edgar A. Guest.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 14, 2020. …

Windsor Castle, Book 4

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 4 - Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn a…

Heretics

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G. K. Chesterton


"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905. Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …

A Pair of Blue Eyes

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Thomas Hardy


The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …

The Confessions of a Daddy

Read by Phil Chenevert


Ellis Parker Butler


The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…

The Benefactress

Read by Helen Taylor


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

John Marchmont's Legacy

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…

The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton’s two earlier Father Brown collections – The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wi…

Obstinate Refusal of the Dead to Address Us


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Afternoon Play: The Obstinate Refusal of the Dead to Address Us Tue 27th May 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM A dark comedy by Neil Griffiths. …

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