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Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer i…

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Heather Lawrence


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

The Jealous Stepmother

In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

Read by Heather Lambert


Cecil Henry Bompas and Unknowntranslated Bycecil Henry Bompas


This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…

Miss Vernon to Mr de Courcy

In Lady Susan (version 2)

Read by Heather Ordover


Jane Austen


Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …

Chapter 18

In Sense and Sensibility

Read by Heather Barnett


Jane Austen


The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…

Chapter 24 – M. De Bassompierre

In Villette

Read by Heather Barnett


Charlotte Brontë


After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

Around the Bend

In Anne of Avonlea

Read by Heather Barnett


L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of…

Chapter 06

In A Girl of the Limberlost

Read by Heather Barnett


Gene Stratton-Porter


A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…

Chapter 04

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by Heather Barnett


Written by Heather Barnett, recorded by Heather Barnett and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

In Les Misérables, Volume 1

Read by Heather Barnett


Victor Hugo


This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Chapter 8

In Stepping Heavenward

Read by Heather Lawrence


E. Prentiss and Elizabeth Prentiss


Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mot…

A Dream

In A Woman's Love Letters

Read by Heather James


Sophia Margaretta Hensley and Sophie M. Almon Hensley


This is a volume of love poems by Canadian poet Sophia Margaretta Hensley, also known as Sophie M. Almon-Hensley. The poems are written from…

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