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Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage…

The Little Robinson of Paris, or, Industry's Triumph

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Eugénie Foa


In this Victorian era children’s novel, haughty Breton aristocrats unjustly reject and cruelly abandon the young orphan Cecil after the deat…

Pelayo: or Cavern of Covadonga, A Romance

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This epic poem tells the dramatic story of King Pelayo, an Asturian ruler in Northern Spain who lead his people to a hard-fought victory ove…

Reviewers Reviewed

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This satirical text was a response to the drubbing the fledgling poet received at the hands of the critics to her debut work, “Pelayo, or th…

XLVI

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Becky


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo

In Stargazing

Read by Becky Smethurst


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

02 - Chapter II

In Afloat on the Ohio

Read by Becky Cook


Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Ch. 2 - Girlhood and its Sorrows

In Behind the Scenes

Read by Becky Cook


Elizabeth Keckley


This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Glooskap: Story 5

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

Read by Becky Cook


Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

THE FALSE DAUPHINS IN FRANCE: AUGUSTUS MEVES

In Claimants to Royalty

Read by Becky Cook


John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

chapter 19

In Lady Rose's Daughter

Read by Becky Cook


Mrs. Humphry Ward and Mary Augusta Ward


"Julie Le Breton enchants almost everyone around her with her smart, charm, and excellent manners. She almost belongs to the English hi…

21 - Foch, part 1

In Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

Read by Becky Cook


J. Walker McSpadden


These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the s…

Chapter 15-"Your Mother a Witch!"

In The Witch of Salem

Read by Becky Cook


John R. Musick


A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.Fro…

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