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Dining Under Difficulties

In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Read by Kaye Burke


Palmer Cox


Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…

The Flight of the Gulls

In Lake Lyrics and Other Poems

Read by Kaye Burke


William Wilfred Campbell


A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of O…

A Child’s Lifted Cross

In Muse and Mint

Read by Kaye Burke


Walter Seymour Percy


Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…

A Strange Tow

In The Outdoor Girls in Florida

Read by Kaye Burke


Laura Lee Hope


In "The Outdoor Girls in Florida, Or Wintering in the Sunny South", the parents of one of the girls have bought an orange grove in…

IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers

In My Larger Education

Read by Kaye Burke


Booker T. Washington


This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…

Dream Number Four

In Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

Read by Jeff Burke


Annie Denton Cridge


"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…

12 - Part II, Homes in Iceland

In Viking Tales

Read by Chuck Burke


Jennie Hall


Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine)

Social Condition - A - Al-Islam

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

Read by Jeff Burke


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Explanatory

In Nequa or The Problem of the Ages

Read by Jeff Burke


Jack Adams


Nequa or The Problem of the Ages is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized …

010 - Part I, Book the First, Chapter VII - The North Point of Portland

In The Man Who Laughs

Read by Emily Burke


Victor Hugo


The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published unde…

Fatme's Rescue

In Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales

Read by Jeff Burke


Wilhelm Hauff


Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph…