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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…

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…

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…

Chapter 1 - The First English Hero

In Early English Hero Tales

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Jeannette Augustus Marks


Supposing you were asked to enter a Great Palace? And within that palace, you were told, were more than a thousand golden doors? And those d…

The Perfect Reader

In Plum Pudding (version 2)

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Christopher Morley


Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…

Retribution

In Daisy: the Autobiography of a Cat

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Miranda Elliot Swan


"I was born in a clothes-basket, and do not feel ashamed of my birthplace, though fire and the swill man long ago removed all trace of …

The Gretchen Plan By William Johnston

In Short Stories From Life

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Various


Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…

Mid-Winter - Read by WA

In Mid-Winter

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Madison Cawein


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Mid-Winter by Madison Cawein.This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22. 2023. ------T…

Newport by Alice Duer Miller

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…

Madam Mason Wasp

In Little Jack Rabbit and Professor Crow

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David Cory


Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…