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Grace Marks

In Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Read by Cori Samuel

Susanna Moodie

As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

Book Two, Part 2

In Paradise Lost

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John Milton

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

A Six Weeks' Pirate

In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

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Frank Richard Stockton and Frank R. Stockton

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…

Essay 07 - Prudence

In Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

Mother Mind

In Short Poetry Collection 019

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Julia Ward Howe

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 019: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 35

In Oliver Twist

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Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…

Ch. XI: The Poet Plots

In Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

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Edward L. Wheeler

This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chivalrous gentlemen to protect the …

Unpleasant Caprices of Royalty: Introduction of Printing as a Subsidiary Aid in…

In Comic History of England

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Bill Nye

Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

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