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Chapter 16

In The Story of My Life

Read by Maria

Helen Keller

The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to mee…

Metzengerstein

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 010

Read by Lady Maria

Edgar Allan Poe

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

1 - The Tale of the Peacock Trees

In The Trees of Pride

Read by Maria Therese

G. K. Chesterton

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as…

25 - The Finding of the Superman

In The Flying Inn

Read by Maria Therese

G. K. Chesterton

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…

15 - One's Own Children are always Prettiest

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Read by Maria Therese

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

Our Runaway Kite

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903

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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…

09 - As You Like It

In The Children's Shakespeare

Read by Maria Therese

E. Nesbit

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short st…

The Teapot

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

Read by Maria Therese

Hans Christian Andersen

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…

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