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Two Surprises
Read by Natalia
Augusta Huiell Seaman
In The Sapphire Signet
Three girls make a new friend, and find a coded notebook in their attic which leads to treasure and a strange tale about the past. - Summary…
Hope
Read by Ellies
Alfred Castner King
In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
The Editor's Room
Read by Sandra Cullum
Henry Seton Merriman
In The Grey Lady
A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths. Sum…
To-day
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas Carlyle
In The Ontario Readers: Third Book
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
Chapter 12 - Part 5
Read by CassiopeiaSparks
Bertha Von Suttner
In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling
Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…
Chapter X: Trouble for Joel
Read by Tony Hackett
Margaret Sidney
In Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
From the Preface: "There were so many interesting friends of the Five Little Peppers, whose lives were only the faintest of outlines in…
Chapter 6 - Part 2
Read by JoelBrenner
G. A. Henty
In Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Great Deception, Volume 1
Trouble comes to the Hawtrey home when mysterious letters and incidents threaten the innocence of Dorothy Hawtrey. Captain Hampton, on old f…
Julia King
Read by MelissaMarie
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
New England Rooms
Read by Carrie Mae Streb
Adelaide W. Smith
In Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…
Chapter 12: The Snow Fort
Read by acamerer
G. A. Henty
In In the Heart of the Rockies
PREFACEMY DEAR LADS,Until comparatively lately that portion of the United States in which I have laid this story was wholly unexplored. The …
Chapter XXVII - Conversation with Mrs. Van Brandt
Read by Miyune
Wilkie Collins
In The Two Destinies
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…
The Complacent Comedienne by Anne Paul
Read by Natalie Fortier
Various
In Shadowland: October, 1919
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
Chapter VIII, part 2
Read by Gloria Begemann
Kate Sanborn
In The Wit of Women
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…
Why Pickle Gave the German Teacher a Present
Read by Natalie Fortier
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 41, August 10, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Chapter Twenty-one
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
In Petticoat Government, Volume 3
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
A Desert Storm
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Margaret Vandercook
In The Ranch Girls at Home Again
The fifth and closing (for now) volume of the well-known Ranch Girls Series will be known as "The Ranch Girls at Home Again." In …
Chapter II: The Novelists. Part 2
Read by Julia Niedermaier
Clement Shorter
In Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
Camilla
Read by Stefan Von Blon
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Chapter Seventeen
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
In Petticoat Government, Volume 1
The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder
M'sieu Fortier's Violin
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…