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Aeschylus
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Chapter 10
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A. A. Milne
In Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part.When the King of Barodia receives a…
CHAPTER 40
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Charles Dickens
In The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
A Hard Time
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Angela Brazil
In The Fortunes of Philippa
The Fortunes of Philippa is based on the author's mother, Angelica Brazil, who had grown up in Rio de Janeiro and attended an English boardi…
24 - Chapter 23
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Martha Finley
In Elsie's Womanhood
The fourth book in the Elsie Dinsmore series, Elsie grows into a young woman. She marries her father's old friend, Edward Travilla, and toge…
His America
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
In Lifted Masks
In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)
18 - As Told by the Rabbi
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Jacob A. Riis
In Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
The Eleventh Hour
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Gene Stratton-Porter
In A Daughter of the Land
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while …
076 - Recipes. Chapter 31. Part 4.
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Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton
In The Book of Household Management
"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…
The Clever Water-Adder
Read by Jon Kissack
Clara Dillingham Pierson
In Among the Pond People
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series ex…
The Princess Pourquoi - Part 2
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Margaret P. Sherwood
In The Princess Pourquoi
Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: "She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be…
THE ENCHANTED KISS
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Chapter XV Timely Help
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Sarah Tooley
In The Life of Florence Nightingale
Journalist and author Sarah Tooley was best known in her time for her biography of Queen Victoria and this biography of Florence Nightingale…
Chloe
Read by Christie Crews
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Glossary
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Clara Dillingham Pierson
In Plow Stories
This book tells of the important role of the plow, starting from its humble beginnings and how the plow has changed over time. This is achi…
Chapter XV: Up in Alexia's Pretty Room
Read by Stacey Malcolm
Margaret Sidney
In Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
From the Preface: "There were so many interesting friends of the Five Little Peppers, whose lives were only the faintest of outlines in…
Nero
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…
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…
Ariel's Song
Read by Grace
Olive Beaupre Miller, Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
In Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…