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Two Old Ladies

In Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Read by Elijah Fisher

Richard Steele

Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

A Journey Inland

In The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

Read by Elijah Fisher

H. A. Guerber

These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run fr…

Letter VII

In Letters from Hell

Read by Elijah Fisher

Valdemar Adolph Thisted

"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…

10 - The Events of a Day and Night

In Desperate Remedies

Read by Malcolm Fisher

Thomas Hardy

Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

I. Silver Pitchers, Chapters 1 and 2

In Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story

Read by Elijah Fisher

Louisa May Alcott

Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …

Introduction, the bookseller to the reader, & the preface of the author

In The Battle of the Books

Read by Elijah Fisher

Jonathan Swift

"The Battle of the Books" depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of…

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