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Spirit of Place and Other Essays

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 17 | Listen:

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of “Hound of Heaven.” This is a collection of her essays covering a wide range of topics from the opening essay on the “Spirit of Place” to a playful essay about the foot, and musing on topics such as rain, the horizon and the concluding essay, “Shadows.” – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Red Runners

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 7

This Is one of the Hawkins series and a right good one at that! Big boys and little boys, manly and “yellow”, all these figure in the adventures which are recounted and the reader is quite breathless by the time he has taken part even vicariously in the numerous pranks and serious experiences. Good wholesome lessons are taught also as when the bully of the group comes to realize some of the big things of life just before he is called to the larger life beyond this one A real boys book but girls will like It also. (Bookseller and Stationer 1923) Seckatary Hawkins, a fat boy with a cowlick hairdo, records daily minutes of the adventures of a remarkably organized group of boys. The group of ten or so boys (some boys rotated in and out of the club) have their own clubhouse on the river bank, complete with a stove for heat, a telephone, and even an organ for the required singing practice. While never the president of the club, Seckatary Hawkins is clearly the smartest member and the leader. He is regularly called upon by the books’ few adult characters and many of the youthful ones to solve various mysteries and to keep the river bank safe. (Adapted from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Mystery of the Secret Band

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 2

This book is about a 16 year old girls’ detective sleuthing skills and how they help her to solve mysteries. This is the 3rd and final book in this girls’ series. – Summary by April Reynolds [chương_files]

Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day

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Action & Adventure, General
Chapter: 53 | Listen: 4

The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for the older children, and both the style and the situations call for more maturity on the part of the reader. The lure of the extraordinary is now dispensed with, and instead these tales supply the interest that comes from recognizable truth to experience. The list of fiction contained in this volume, representing the imaginative product of almost all races and times, is fitly closed by the gift made to the children of England of a story for themselves by the master of English novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray. – Summary by William Patten [chương_files]

Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 2

In “The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car, Or The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley”, one of the girls has learned to run a big motor car and she invites the club to go on a tour to visit some distant relatives. On the way they stop at a deserted mansion and make a surprising discovery. This is the third book in the “Outdoor Girls” series. (Summary from an old book advertisement) [chương_files]

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods

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Action & Adventure, Family
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 3

Bunny Brown and his little sister, Sue, have been having adventures and fun, and getting into scrapes, since the early 1900s. From Chapter One: “Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with their father and their mother. They had come from their home in Bellemere to live for a while in the forest, on the shore of Lake Wanda, where they were all enjoying the life in the open air. They had journeyed to the woods in an automobile, carrying two tents which were set up under the trees. One tent was used to sleep in and the other for a dining room. There was also a place to cook…” This is Volume 6 of the Bunny Brown series. This book contains racial prejudices that were once commonplace. They are retained, as originally written in this recording, because to do otherwise would be to deny they existed. – Summary by Nan Dodge [chương_files]

Interpretation of Keats’s Endymion

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 10

Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. When it was published in April 1818 the critical reception was almost universally hostile. Since that time, many readers have found the poem dense and inaccessible, and have preferred to focus on the occasional gems of poetic commentary for which it has become famous. Feeling that the poem was both undervalued and misunderstood, in 1919 Professor Clement Notcutt published a lengthy essay, which could be considered a “user’s guide” to Endymion. He sums up his intent in the introduction: A careful study of Endymion made some ten years ago led to the conclusion that there was more of allegorical significance in the poem than had hitherto been recognised, but the effort to trace that significance was only partially successful. Further study since that time has gradually opened up the way to the interpretation that is worked out in the following pages. It is probable that there are details in the story the meaning of which still lies hidden, but it may at least be hoped that enough has been discovered to win for the poem its rightful place among the not very numerous examples in English poetry of well-wrought allegory. In 1921 Notcutt published a further essay entitled: The Story of Glaucus in Keat’s Endymion. – Summary by Algy Pug [chương_files]

Haworth’s

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 54 | Listen: 5

The story of an inventor’s son, who tries to prevent him and a couple other characters from being taken into poverty by the man of the house who is drinking away the money, while trying to inherit their grandmother’s money. – Summary by ej400 [chương_files]

Children

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 7

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of “Hound of Heaven.” This is a collection of her essays on children. The opening line for the first essay sets the stage. “To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupations. You cannot anticipate him.” – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Pee-Wee Harris (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 36 | Listen: 3

Last summer I went down to where my uncle lives and spent vacation there and I had a peach of a time and all the things I did are told in the first story, but there are a lot of things left over and I’m going to tell these in another story. There are snakes and peach orchards and everything down there. Then comes the second story and that’s about a dandy mistake I made. Gee whiz! I’ve made better mistakes than any feller in our troop. I didn’t make it on purpose, but anyway it led to a lot of dandy adventures. That’s one good thing about mistakes, anyway. But one thing sure, if I had got into the right automobile I would have just gone about two blocks. So that shows that the wrong one may even be better than the right one. Only you bet I’m not going to tell you all about that story here. Then comes the third one and that’s the one where I started the Pollywog Patrol. It didn’t last long, but that’s all right, because pollywogs don’t last long. It wasn’t a full patrol, except we were full of dessert—three helpings. If you want plenty of dessert you’d better read that story. After that story comes the fourth one and there’s where I made the dandiest mistake I ever made. Another feller helped me make it. On account of that mistake a girl was good and sorry for the way she treated […]