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Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Read by Tori Faulder


Horatio Alger, Jr.


In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets y…

Ragged Dick

Read by Alys AtteWater


Horatio Alger, Jr.


Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting “the American Dream” of poor boys making good and becomi…

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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George Meredith


After his wife's desertion, Sir Austin wants to bring up his son according to a strict educational system governing every aspect of his life…

The Gift of the Magi

Read by Betsie Bush


O. Henry


The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their on…

049 The Richard Foster Interview


Sheridan Voysey


Richard Foster is one of the most significant spiritual writers of our day. The author of bestselling books like 'Celebration of Discipline'…

The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

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George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-4…

William Again

Read by David Wales


Richmal Crompton


Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzz…

The Chaperon

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Gentle Grafter

Read by Leslie Walden


O. Henry


If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" i…

The Agony Column

Read by peac


Earl Derr Biggers


English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

A Man of Honor

Read by Roger Melin


George Eggleston


New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-establishe…

In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant

Read by Scarlett Martin


Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams


The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, "in school and out." We are sorry to say that…

Red Money

Read by Sharon Kilmer


Fergus Hume


Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and t…

The White Dove

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his wife. His young daughter Dorothy is living with his father, Matthew, also a w…

Uneasy Money

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


P. G. Wodehouse


Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only …

The Club of Queer Trades

Read by David Barnes


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…

David and the Phoenix

Read by Greg Weeks


Edward Ormondroyd


David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on…

Poor Richard's Almanack

Read by Michele Fry


Benjamin Franklin


A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

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