Robert Bridges, who was English Poet Laureate between 1913 and 1930, published three versions of his sonnet sequence, The Growth of Love:
This recording is of the 1889 edition.
The poems are essentially meditations on the elusive su...
It's a Family Affair, the first play by Alexander Ostrovsky was written in 1849, but 10 years elapsed before permission was given for it to be staged.
As with many of Ostrovsky's plays, the target of the author's satire is the merchant class and the inevitable corruption associated with mercantile...
After teaching as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing for the year 1920, Bertrand Russell penned The Problem of China, in which he describes China's past and present, opening on the country's possible future. Written 100 years ago, the work is demonstrative of the philosopher's insi...
Rachel Innes, a middle-aged spinster, has barely settled in at the country house she has rented for the summer when a series of bizarre and violent events threaten to perturb her normally unflappable nature. A strange figure appears briefly in the twilight outside a window. At night, a rattling, met...
The mysterious A. Mason, in the closing decades of the 19th century, breaks his blood oath and puts pen to paper to draft this publication.
Operating under the pseudonym A. Mason, without reservation, he reveals all of the masonic signs, grips, passwords, illegal oaths, and the most important port...
As Jeeves and Bertie fall out over the latter's new white mess jacket, the young master takes exception to Jeeves' handling of the romantic affairs of newt enthusiast Gussie Fink-Nottle and assumes personal charge of the case. But Bertie's schemes soon expand to encompass the ruptured engagement of...
An arch-schemer, gossip, and insatiably curious social climber, Miss Elizabeth Mapp is a 40-something spinster living in the picturesque English seaside town of Tilling. Miss Mapp and her nemesis, Godiva Plaistow vie for sartorial and social status much to the amusement of the gentlemen of Tilling -...
Meet the indomitable lady detective Loveday Brooke. Able to assume a multitude of disguises and possessed of analytical powers rivaling those of the great Sherlock Holmes, she masters every baffling situation and solves each perplexing crime in these seven atmospheric and entertaining Victorian myst...
Short Stories! Big Action! Declassified at last! Snow Shorts delve into the adventures of Abraham Snow, his family, and his friends, in short, bite-sized action/thriller tales. Volume 2 contains stories featuring Abraham Snow, Tom "Mac" McClellan, and Archer Snow.
Snow Short 4: "Snow Ambition'' fe...
This short story by Charles Beaumont became Episode 20 Season 1 on the Twilight Zone. Listen and you will see why Rod Serling picked it.
"The time is the day after tomorrow. The place: a far-off corner of the universe. The cast of characters: three men lost among the stars, three men sharing the c...
Joseph Lewis (1889 - 1968) was one of the most notable atheist activists in the early 20th century. He was the founder of the Truth Publishing Company and for many years the president of a secular humanist association, The Freethinkers of America, over which he was said to exert a rigid control.
T...
Leonid Andreyev spent most of the last decade of his life in the Finnish village Vammelsu, near the Black Rivulet, where he built for himself a villa. The village was close to the sea, and Andreyev spent many hours exploring the local seas in his yacht.
His love for the sea and understanding of it...
