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Chapter 30

In Thyrza

Read by Maddie Burns

George Gissing

Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…

Chapter 20: Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

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L. Frank Baum

The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz" are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish…

Preface and Letter A

In The Foolish Dictionary

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Gideon Wurdz and Charles Wayland Towne

"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

Chapter 11: Duty to Parents

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

Muir Woods

In Byways Around San Francisco Bay

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W.E. Hutchinson and W. E. Hutchinson

California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…

How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…

Plato: The Story of a Cat

In Short Story Collection Vol. 005

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A.S. Downs and A. S. Downs

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Barney Hainsfeather

In Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

Chapter 31

In At the Back of the North Wind

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George MacDonald

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…