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Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story

In The Jumping Frog

Read by Ruth Golding

Mark Twain

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorio…

07 - Letters 31-35

In Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

Read by Ruth Golding

Dorothy Osborne

A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil …

Bk 07 Ch 05: Prayer

In Les Misérables, Volume 2

Read by Ruth Golding

Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo

This is book 2 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 I

In Tea-table Talk

Read by Ruth Golding

Jerome K. Jerome

As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…

The Boy who Rode into the Sunset

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 002

Read by Ruth Golding

C.J. Dennis

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

09 - Chapter IX: Woman Decorative in Her Boudoir

In Woman as Decoration

Read by Ruth Golding

Emily Burbank and Helen M. Urban

A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)

Snobs And Marriage

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Ruth Golding

W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

01 - Chapter I

In In Kent with Charles Dickens

Read by Ruth Golding

Thomas Frost

By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

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