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Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers

In Specimen Days

Read by Aaron Elliott

Walt Whitman

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Preface- Quote & Inscription

In Work: A Story of Experience

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Louisa May Alcott

It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

Brief Biographical Sketch

In Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

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Friedrich Kerst

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this…

How to Prevent War, 1938

In Selected House of Commons Speeches

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Winston Churchill and Winston S. Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

Chapter 1

In The Time Machine

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H. G. Wells

The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally cr…

Chapter 46

In The Custom of the Country

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…

Chapter 01 - Obtaining Supplies

In Hospital Sketches

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Louisa May Alcott

Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

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