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The Sirens, Or Pleasures

In The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

Read by Abigail Johnston

Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon

"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding th…

The Story of King Arthur - Part 1: Of Arthur's Birth and How He Became King

In The Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

Read by Abigail Johnston

William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

A Good Seed Cake

In A History of and Suggestions in the Making of Biscuits, Quick Breads and Cake

Read by Abigail Johnston

Claudia Quigley Murphy

This is a very short treatise on breads and cakes, published in 1921. The author is Claudia Quigley Murphy, a notable American journalist an…

Tom was Goin' for a Poet.

In Farm Ballads

Read by Abigail Johnston

Will Carleton

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where…

Geek is Good - planning an exhibition programme

In Illuminating the Museums conference 2014

Read by Stephen Johnston

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

bk3_05 - Book the Third - Chapter 05 THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO BAD COMPANY

In Our Mutual Friend

Read by E. Moulton

Charles Dickens

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

Pretty Maruschka

In A Book of Fairy Tales

Read by E. Henderson

Sabine Baring-Gould

This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Be…

Night Ninth, Part One

In The Complaint; or Night Thoughts

Read by Ania E

Edward Young

A book-length poem, often associated with the Graveyard School of poetry, musing upon life and death. - Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek

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