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Michael Macbride

In Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Read by Cori Samuel

Susanna Moodie

As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

Book Two, Part 2

In Paradise Lost

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John Milton

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

AT THE SCHOONER'S RAIL

In The Island of Doctor Moreau

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H. G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature…

Essay 07 - Prudence

In Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

Mother Mind

In Short Poetry Collection 019

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Julia Ward Howe

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 019: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 35

In Oliver Twist

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Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…

Prologue

In The Phantom of the Opera

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Gaston Leroux

An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

Chapter 07

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

Chapter 13

In Persuasion

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Jane Austen

Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is gr…

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