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John Barton's Great Trouble.

In Mary Barton

Read by Wendy Belcher


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

20 - The Wedding Dress

In Mary Marston

Read by Wendy Almeida


George MacDonald


Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet

In International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

Read by Wendy Almeida


Francis J. Reynolds and Alphonse Daudet


The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

Chapter 50: FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE

In The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

Read by Wendy Hall


Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

Chapter 6

In A Dark Night's Work

Read by Wendy Almeida


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

THE FIR-TREE

In The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Version 2)

Read by Wendy Hall


Asa Don Dickinson and Variousandasa Don Dickinson


This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won …

Book 1 (The Shimerdas), Chapter 12

In My Ántonia

Read by Wendy Belcher


Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…

Chapter 2- Servant

In Work: A Story of Experience

Read by Wendy Belcher


Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

Hat Tricks

In Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Read by Wendy Almeida


Professor Louis Hoffman


This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…

Are Editors People?

In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

Read by Wendy Almeida


Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

15 THE PICTURE

In Dark Hollow

Read by Wendy Almeida


Anna Katharine Green


The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is conv…

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