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Book 9 Chapter 5 A conversation between Amelia and Dr Harrison, with the result
Read by Ariphron
Henry Fielding
In Amelia (Vol. 3)
Volume three in the trilogy entitled Amelia. A continuation of the love story of Amelia and her husband Willam Booth and the trials and trib…
The Lunacy Of The Librarian
Read by Adam Benckeser
G. K. Chesterton
In The Return of Don Quixote
The mirthful story of a Don Quixote who, riding into a world of fetes and parties, tilts a humorous and well aimed lance at some of the conv…
A Tiny Thaw
Claudia
In Claudia
Claudia is a lighthearted soap about the ups and downs of being a newlywed. Topics include dealing with in-laws, burning dinner, losing sock…
Chapter XIX
Read by Anne Fletcher
George Moore
In A Mummer's Wife
Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is…
Chapter Fourteen: Quimby Accepts the Situation
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Ella Cheever Thayer
In Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…
Chapter XIII. Niniane and Merlin. Part I
Read by Sonia
Lucy Allen Paton
In Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance
In this doctoral dissertation, author Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), an alumna of Radcliffe College, takes a scholarly look at the role of Mo…
Book 2, Chapter 4: Arrears at Nanci
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
In The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)
The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…
Aed tells of the rose
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Various
In A Little Garland of Celtic Verse
Poems of Ireland by various poets, including WB Yeats. Songful, soulful poems of the Ireland so many left behind (Summary by Czandra)
Chapter III. The Search
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Ethel M. Dell
In Greatheart
Invited on a skiing trip with her wealthy neighbours, the de Vignes, Dinah delights at her first, and possibly only, taste of freedom from h…
Book II - IV - Ne Sit Ancillae
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) and Quintus Horatius Flaccus
In The Odes and Carmen Saeculare
Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—"aere perennius"—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride,…
Chapter 14
Read by Rina Zelen Souppa
Lucy Maud Montgomery
In The Blue Castle
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her yea…
LXVII. AGAINST THOSE WHO SAY THAT THE POSSIBLE INTELLECT IS THE IMAGINATION
Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC
Saint Thomas Aquinas
In Summa Contra Gentiles, Second Book (On Creation)
The Summa Contra Gentiles was composed by Thomas Aquinas between 1259 and 1265, in four books broadly covering teachings on God, on Creation…
Ashur-bani-pal, Book-Collector and Patron of Learning--Colophon of the Tablets of the Palace Library--Colophon of the Tablets of the Library of Nebo
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E. A. Wallis Budge
In The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh: with an Account of the Royal Libraries of Nineveh
A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version), dating from the 7th century …
Etelka's Choice
Read by Jude Somers
Susan Coolidge
In Just Sixteen
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjo…
Chapter 20 (alternate reading)
Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Austen Layard
In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…
Chapter I
Read by Thaddaeus R Blakley
E. Nesbit
In The Lark (Version 2)
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story is ent…
Chapter XV Continued
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Anna Bartlett Warner
In Say and Seal, Volume 2
The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…
An Only Offer
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Amelia E. Barr
In Winter Evening Tales
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
Chapter 24
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Jane Austen
In Northanger Abbey (Version 5)
What could be more entrancing than Northanger Abbey? Catherine quite fears the Abbey. Find out why! - Summary by Victoria Bell
Letter XXIX
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Richardson
In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5
Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…