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The Maid of the Drift, part 1

In By the Marshes of Minas

Read by Marie Christian

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…

A BOY’S RACE WITH GENERAL GRANT AT EPHESUS

In Wonder Stories of Travel

Read by Marie Christian

E. E. Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker and Eliot McCormick

A curiously interesting collection of folkloric tales and firsthand accounts written by global travelers for 19th century periodicals; compi…

Lillian Morris - Chapter 4

In Lillian Morris, and Other Stories

Read by Marie Christian

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The nights were real Californian: calm, warm, starry; the fire burned cheerily, and in its gleam I saw the gigantic, but shapely and noble f…

Section 1

In The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale

Read by Marie Christian

Ford Madox Ford

In this delightful tale, the naive and sheltered Queen Eldrida learns the secret of flight from her friend the bat and sets off by air for a…

The Threat

In The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World

Read by Marie Christian

Margaret Vandercook

Betty Ashton's world is not a happy one, at this point. Her mother is sick, the other girls are in New York, her boarders have left, and sh…

General Introduction

In Little Masterpieces of Science - The Skies and The Earth

Read by Marie Christian

George Iles

The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…

Preface

In Apis Mellifica

Read by Marie Daum

C.W. Wolf and C. W. Wolf

Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experien…

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