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The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Edith Wharton


Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…

Benigna Machiavelli

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…

The Girls of Chequertrees

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Marion St. John Webb


Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An o…

Now We Are Six

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A. A. Milne


Milne's second book of children's poetry: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and no…

Surprise House

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Abbie Farwell Brown


Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…

Knock Three Times!

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Marion St. John Webb


“Jack and Molly were twins, and this was their ninth birthday. Such a happy, exciting day it had been; it felt like a birthday all day long,…

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One

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Edith Wharton


Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Version 2

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Stephen Leacock


A collection of humorous fiction by renowned Canadian writer, Stephen Leacock. Unlike the lighter Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town that pr…

The Crux

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


"This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts …

Follies in Fiction

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Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

Chapter 3

In A Modern Mephistopheles

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Louisa May Alcott


One of our favorite authors give us this book of lies, greed and lust. Originally published under a pen name. However, the author considered…

The Key-Note - Read by WJA

In The Key-Note

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Christina Rossetti


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Key-Note by Christina Rossetti.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 11, 2024. …

At the End of the Road by Madison Cawein

In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

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William Stanley Braithwaite


William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…

Grandfather's Love - Read by WJA

In Grandfather's Love

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Sara Teasdale


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Grandfather's Love by Sara Teasdale.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 13, 2023.--…

IV. The Skipping Shoes

In Lulu's Library, Volume 1

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Louisa May Alcott


All but three of these stories were told to my little niece during our quiet hour before bedtime. They became such favorites with her and he…

Little Wolf-Willow

In The Shagganappi

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E. Pauline Johnson


Tales of adventure in the context of white and first nations peoples interacting in North America, told by Tekahionwake, Haudenosaunee of Si…