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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Read by Michele Eaton


Eliza Haywood


Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develo…

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2

Read by Michele Eaton


Eliza Haywood


This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden …

Marietta: A Maid of Venice

Read by Michele Fry


Francis Marion Crawford


This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…

The Charwoman's Daughter

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…

From Alien To Citizen

Read by Michele Fry


Edward A. Steiner


Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversi…

An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll

Read by Michele Fry


I. Newton Baker


Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the …

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4

Read by Michele Eaton


Eliza Haywood


Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy lear…

The Charwoman's Shadow

Read by Michele Fry


Lord Dunsany


Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…

Love Eternal

Read by Michele Eaton


H. Rider Haggard


This follows the story of Godfrey and Isobel and their relationship as they grow up. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems

Read by Michele Fry


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…

The Crock of Gold

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…

Mongan's Frenzy

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…

Optimism, An Essay

Read by Michele Fry


Helen Keller


Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …

Oliver's Bride

Read by Michele Eaton


Margaret O. Oliphant


Betrothed to one woman but married to another whose heart will be broken. Summary by Michele Eaton

The Mother (Version 2)

Read by Michele Fry


Pearl S. Buck


As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…

Deirdre

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland's wily, chauvinistic King Conachur, who desires to marry her after his…

A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…

Read by Michele Fry


John Muir


This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…

Chapter XVII - Epoch the Second - The Coward

In The Homesteader

Read by Dan Hu


Oscar Micheaux


The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader in the Dakotas. He meets Agnes who he fa…

The Baby Elephant; Practical Jokes; The Jolly Dog's Practical Joke

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 22, March 30, 1880

Read by Dan Hu


Various


Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, po…

The "Snowed-In" Literary Club - Part I

In The Hollow Tree Snowed In Book

Read by Dan Hu


Albert Bigelow Paine


Once upon a time, in the Big Deep Woods, there was a big hollow tree with three hollow branches. The tree animals living in each of these …

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