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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

Read by Caitlin Kelly

Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens

Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

The Dappled Greys

In The Count of Monte Cristo

Read by Caitlin Kelly

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

The Rebels-Convict

In Captain Blood

Read by Caitlin Kelly

Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish…

The Wild Sheep

In The Mountains of California

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John Muir

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and …

Moti, Mid-East

In The Lilac Fairy Book

Read by Caitlin Kelly

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although And…

Physical Characteristics

In Current Superstitions

Read by Caitlin Kelly

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…

Chapter 13: Some Instances Of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates …

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS

In Wives and Daughters

Read by Caitlin Kelly

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…