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Cousin Henry

Read by Jean Bascom

Anthony Trollope

Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the tro…

05 - Godfrey and Letty

In Mary Marston

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George MacDonald

Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

Selected poems, from Arabic Literature

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02

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Various

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

02- Lesson 2

In The Elements of Entomology

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William Ruschenberger

The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is…

30 - The Light Princess Part 3 (George MacDonald)

In Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

This is a collection of well known fairy tales by various authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and many others. (Summary …

13 - Chapter 11: The Golden Age of Babylonia

In Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

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Donald Alexander Mackenzie

Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in t…

07 - Rural Life in England

In The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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Washington Irving

Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book fa…

Lutey and the Mermaid, from Cornwall's Wonderland

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 014

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Mabel Quiller-Couch

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Ch 13 INTENTIONS

In A Fair Barbarian

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her…

The Scarlet Letter

In First Chapter Collection 001

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Are you wishing sometimes that you had a good book which you don't know, that you might just read and enjoy? The goal of this collecti…