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The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Edith Wharton


Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…

Benigna Machiavelli

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…

The Girls of Chequertrees

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Marion St. John Webb


Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An o…

Now We Are Six

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A. A. Milne


Milne's second book of children's poetry: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and no…

Surprise House

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Abbie Farwell Brown


Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…

Knock Three Times!

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Marion St. John Webb


“Jack and Molly were twins, and this was their ninth birthday. Such a happy, exciting day it had been; it felt like a birthday all day long,…

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One

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Edith Wharton


Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…

The Crux

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


"This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts …

Follies in Fiction

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Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

A White Slave Clearing House; A White Slave's Own Story

In Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

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Ernest A. Bell


A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …

An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic - Read by WA

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Vachel Lindsay


LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Vachel Lindsay.This was the Weekly Poetry project for J…

Caliban by Abbie Farwell Brown

In Coffee Break Collection 036 - Cats

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Abbie Farwell Brown


This is the 36th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

They Didn't Think - Read by WA

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Phoebe Cary


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Memories by Phoebe Carey.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 12, 2023. ----…

Moon-Drowned - Read by WJA

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Moon-Drowned by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2024…

Frightened - Read by WJA

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Helen Leah Reed


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Frightened by Helen Leah Reed.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 1, 2024. …

Harvest Moon: 1914 by Josephine Preston Peabody

In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915

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William Stanley Braithwaite


William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…