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Chapter 12: HOW BETSINDA FLED, AND WHAT BECAME OF HER

In The Rose And The Ring

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Victorian social satire hiding in a set of children's fairy tales by the author of the classic "Vanity Fair" - Summary by Stav Ni…

Chapter 6 Certain Objections Part 3

In Woman and Labour

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Olive Schreiner

I should like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us—“You will look back at us with astonishment! You will …

Book 6 Chapter 3

In Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading)

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Lew Wallace

In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Th…

Jack and the Bean Stalk

In Mother’s Nursery Tales

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Katharine Pyle

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

Come, Rest Awhile

In The Watchman and Other Poems

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems.…

The Unruly Family

In The Fairchild Family

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Mary Martha Sherwood

The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their acti…

A Novel Postman. (By Alice Wheildon)

In Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

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Asa Don Dickinson

This charming book has many stories that deal mostly with the holiday of Thanksgiving, perfectly suited for family listening and reading. an…

THE PANSY AND FORGET-ME-NOT -- In Mamma's Room

In Flower Stories

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Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

This volume contains stories, poems, and facts about lots of different flowers, intended for teaching children. It is divided into thirteen …

The Bad Fairy

In Five Minutes' Stories

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Mary Louisa Molesworth

This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illus…

THE HEDLEY KOW

In More English Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs

"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…