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07- Chapter Six, Part 1

In Told in a French Garden

Read by Becky Doughty


Mildred Aldrich


American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches.…

Romeo and Juliet

Read by Becky Miller


William Shakespeare


Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It co…

Selected Poems of Robert Frost

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Robert Frost


Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet an…

Daniel Deronda

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George Eliot


In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…

Woman and the New Race

Read by Becky Cook


Margaret Sanger


Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…

A Boy's Will

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Robert Frost


A Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and creat…

The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

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Robert W. Service


Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …

Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field

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Eugene Field


The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, o…

14 - CHAPTER XIV - CHAMBERS

In The Uncommercial Traveller

Read by Adam Doughty


Charles Dickens


The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …

15 - The Four Clever Brothers

In Snowdrop and Other Tales

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm


Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustra…

"And Some there be who have Adventures Thrust upon Them"

In The Black Bag

Read by Adam Doughty


Louis Joseph Vance


Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified f…

10 - Roderick Explores the Chasm

In The Wolf Hunters

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James Oliver Curwood


Follow Roderick and his friends Wabi and Mukoki on their adventures in the pristine North. They fight voracious wolves, hostile natives, and…

XLVI

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

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Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…