All the time / TOP / Page 401 / Audiobooks.club

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

1000

John Clare - Old Year

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate...

Ann Simmons and 12 more 17 minutes

No comments

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

908

William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 5

Book 5 — Mabel Lyndwood. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

acousticwave and 4 more 1 hour 45 minutes Windsor Castle

No comments

Oh! Where do the Fairies Hide Their Heads

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

856

Thomas Haynes Bayly - Oh! Where do the Fairies Hide Their Heads

Librivox volunteers bring you 12 readings of Oh! Where Do the Fairies Hide Their heads by Thomas Haynes Bayly. Oh! Where do the fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled...

Biz Rasich and 11 more 17 minutes

No comments

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

869

Anonymous - Picture Book Of Merry Tales

Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the nineteenth century’s almost-reflexive Jew-stereotype and anti-Semitism. —...

David Wales 4 hours 16 minutes

No comments

Christian Fiction

782

Henry van Dyke - First Christmas Tree

This is a folk tale of how the first tree came into being. It tells of a hero Winfried with his young companion stepping boldly into the pagan right of the passing into winter. He preaches the gospel of Christ and His...

PennyAnn 50 minutes

No comments

Science Fiction

1K

John Berryman - Card Trick

The Psi Lodge had their ways and means of applying pressure, when pressure was needed. But the peculiar talent this fellow showed was one that even they'd never heard of...! — Summary by John Berryman

Gary Dana 1 hour 18 minutes

No comments

Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

General

986

William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate. Almost any encyclopedia can...

Greg Laughland and 13 more 14 hours 43 minutes The Junior Classics

No comments

Science Fiction

1.1K

Arthur J. Burks - Astounding Stories 07, July 1930

Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine — Summary by Annise

ScottReyonoldsVoice and 5 more 8 hours 50 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

No comments

Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

Political Science

1.7K

Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another...

D.E. Wittkower 2 hours 2 minutes

No comments

Literary Fiction

809

Joseph Conrad - Shadow-Line

Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first...

Expatriate 3 hours 52 minutes

No comments

Children's Non-fiction

833

Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Kari the Elephant

The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Adrian Praetzellis 2 hours 25 minutes

No comments

Animals & Nature

848

Thornton W. Burgess - Mother West Wind "How" Stories

Peter Rabbit has many questions. How did Howler the Wolf get his name? How did Lightfoot the Deer learn to jump? How did Drummer the Woodpecker come by his red cap? When Peter asks Grandfather Frog, Grandfather Frog...

mlaura and 2 more 2 hours 13 minutes

No comments