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In Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Read by Elijah Fisher

Richard Steele

Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

Foreward

In My Life at Sea

Read by Elijah Fisher

William Caius Crutchley

The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect speci…

A Journey Inland

In The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

Read by Elijah Fisher

H. A. Guerber

These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run fr…

I. Silver Pitchers, Chapters 1 and 2

In Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story

Read by Elijah Fisher

Louisa May Alcott

Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …

Patriotism — Necessity, a Relative Term — King John and the Pope — Consumption …

In Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

Read by Elijah Fisher

Edmund Burke

There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …

July 24 Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Liberator

In Good Stories for Great Birthdays

Read by Natasha Fisher

Frances Jenkins Olcott

"Here are over 200 stories celebrating 23 great birthdays of patriot-founders and upbuilders of the Republics of both North and South A…

10 - The Events of a Day and Night

In Desperate Remedies

Read by Malcolm Fisher

Thomas Hardy

Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

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