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In Zarah the Cruel

Read by Angela Jefferies

Joan Conquest

As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, an…

An Extraordinary Occurrence

In The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Read by Angela Jefferies

William Clark Russell

Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

To a Butterfly

In A Spray of Lilac, and Other Poems and Songs

Read by Angela

Marie Hedderwick Browne

Marie Hedderwick-Browne was born in Ireland, but spent her formative years in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father, John Hedderwick, was a pr…

Book 3, Chapter 23: Dinner-Time

In Adam Bede

Read by Angela Kelley

George Eliot

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…

Victory for the Greeks

In On the Shores of the Great Sea

Read by Angela Weech

M.B. Synge and M. B. Synge

Book I of the "Story of the World" series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham…

Chapter 19

In Falkner

Read by Angela Haug

Mary Shelley

Falkner is the last novel by Mary Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein and The Last Man. It tells the impossible love story bet…

The Belfry Pigeon - Read by ARL

In The Belfry Pigeon

Read by Angela Little

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writer…