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Locke and Milton, by Henry Wyman Holmes

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

Read by Victoria Scrimer


Charles William Eliot


The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

EDGAR ALLAN POE

In Studies in Classic American Literature

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D. H. Lawrence


The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…

The Water Supply for the Nicaragua Canal; by Arthur P. Davis

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 11

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.

Chapter XIV

In The Head of the House of Coombe

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


While renowned for her beloved children's literature, Frances Hodgson Burnett's talent extended to historical novels. Originally serialized …

One of My Sons

Read by Laura Victoria


Anna Katharine Green


A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry …

The Life of Kit Carson

Read by Laura Victoria


Edward S. Ellis


Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…

The Hermit of ---- Street

Read by Laura Victoria


Anna Katharine Green


Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks st…

The Autobiography of an Electron

Read by Laura Victoria


Charles R. Gibson


"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…

Bible (KJV) NT 11: Phillippians

Read by Victoria Martin


King James Version


Bible scholars believe that this letter was written by the Apostle Paul (A.D. 5-A.D. 67) to the church at Philippi. It is a wonderful letter…

From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian

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Charles Alexander Eastman


From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to tran…

The Child's Book of American Biography

Read by Laura Victoria


Mary Stoyell Stimpson


In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

The Frozen North

Read by Laura Victoria


Edith Horton


The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mys…

Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…

Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola

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Edson L. Whitney


Four American Indians by Edson L. Whitney and Frances M. Perry, gives a short history of King Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags; Pontiac, an …

The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel

Read by Laura Victoria


Howard Pyle


David goes on a journey to the moon-garden where everything is beautiful and where he also meets Phyllis who is not like the other children …

Mothering on Perilous

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Lucy S. Furman


Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…