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08 - At the Place of the Oaks

In The Singing Mouse Stories

Read by Courtney Parker Sandhu


Emerson Hough


The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the wate…

Miriam's Lover

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

Dick Baker’s Cat

In Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

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Mark Twain


The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stor…

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

In Best Russian Short Stories

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th c…

Book Second, I

In The Ivory Tower

Read by Courtney Miller


Henry James


An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of J…

XIII

In The Rover

Read by Courtney Miller


Joseph Conrad


This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of …

Chapter 10

In Regiment of Women

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Clemence Dane


Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…

On Some Country Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

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W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

On the Way to the Tomb of Korah

In The Perfect World

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Ella Scrymsour


Almost certainly the merging of two separate magazine novellas, where Scrymsour attempted to weave together the plots. In this fantasy/ scie…

CHAPTER 5. MRS. WALKER'S OPINION

In The Amethyst Cross

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Fergus Hume


Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…

Captain Nielsen

In My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1

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William Clark Russell


Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishe…

Chapter 13: The Moon and Planets

In History of Astronomy

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George Forbes


An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by re…

Chapter III - At Home with Cossacks (Part 1)

In The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia

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Kellogg Durland


Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…