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Chapter VI

In The Inevitable

Read by Lynne T


Louis Couperus


23 year old Cornélie de Retz is a Dutch Divorcee who goes to Italy to start a new life and most part of the novel is filled with the …

Chapter 18: HOW THEY ALL JOURNEYED BACK TO THE CAPITAL

In The Rose And The Ring

Read by Lynne T


William Makepeace Thackeray


Victorian social satire hiding in a set of children's fairy tales by the author of the classic "Vanity Fair" - Summary by Stav Ni…

A View from Chumulari

In The Cliff Climbers

Read by Lynne T


Thomas Mayne Reid


A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures…

1.9 Gossip, Secrets: Loveletters and The Unfaithful Husband Found Out, and a Ho…

In Curiosities of Street Literature

Read by Lynne T


Various


This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…

A Valiant Band

In In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

Read by Lynne T


G. A. Henty


In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and …

The Laird of Auchendrayne

In The Grey Man

Read by Lynne T


S. R. Crockett


This novel is set in Scotland in turbulent times, and we are immediately introduced to intrigue and family strife. At Launcelot Kennedy's au…

The Lost Brooch

In Five Minutes' Stories

Read by Lynne T


Mary Louisa Molesworth


This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illus…

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle Part 1

In Victorian Stories of Troubled Marriages

Read by Lynne T


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are …

Chapter 1

In Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Read by Lynne T


Montague Glass


Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

Introductory

In My Monks of Vagabondia

Read by Lynne T


Andress Small Floyd


Before welfare or rehab, what happened to those unfortunates who lost their way, fell through the cracks, were cast off by society? Men such…

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