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Bk1,C2-Succession to the crown, Aztec nobility

In History of the Conquest of Mexico

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

William H. Prescott

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

Widowers and Widows

In The Spinster Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Myrtle Reed

A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

Visitors

In Current Superstitions

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Fanny Dickerson Bergen

No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

Introduction

In Main Street

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Sinclair Lewis

Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

36 - Book 13, Part 1

In Metamorphoses

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Publius Ovidius Naso and Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…

Soups

In Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Rufus Estes

Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

Chapters 6-8

In Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

31 - Episode 3-05

In Tartarin of Tarascon

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Alphonse Daudet

The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures a…

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