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Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn

In Legends of Saints and Sinners

Read by Laurel Emerson


Douglas Hyde


"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …

The Giant Maiden - Germany

In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 02

Read by Laurel Emerson


Marie Harriette Frary


This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

In the Wilderness

In Stories of the Bible, Volume 1: The People of the Chosen Land

Read by Laurel Emerson


Myles Endicott


Brief Bible stories from the Old Testament, many accompanied by poems. - Summary by Larry Wilson

A Long Vacation

In Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb

Read by Laurel Emerson


David Cory


David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…

The Little Hurts

In Rhymes of Childhood

Read by Laurel Emerson


Edgar A. Guest


Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …

The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Catherine Emerson


George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

The Stratagems, Book 1, Part 3

In The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome

Read by Emerson Wells


Sextus Julius Frontinus


Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…

Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Alexandrian School

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Catherine Emerson


Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

Fir-cone Mushroom to Maned Mushroom

In Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

Read by Catherine Emerson


Worthington George Smith


This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

Wingfold and Barbara

In There and Back

Read by George Emerson


George MacDonald


An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …