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Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother (Dramatic reading)

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Hesba Stretton - Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother (Dramatic reading)

Jessica is a little girl who used to be an actress till she grew too big. Now she lives on the streets, mostly starving until she meets Mr. Dan'el. Mr. Dan'el gives Jessica his cast-off crusts and warmed-over coffee....

2 hours 10 minutes

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Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

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552

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who treats him badly. Oliver runs away and finds himself in the streets of...

15 hours 39 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

407

Unknown - String of Pearls (dramatic reading)

Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett; Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St....

11 hours 11 minutes

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Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was «Translated from the Original Equine...

5 hours 26 minutes

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Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)

The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agitation is furthered and complicated by his family's arrival in St. Petersburg,...

Mary J and 1 more 21 hours 19 minutes

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Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff (Dramatic Reading)

At a fete in the New Palace, the court seems to be in perfect order. Only two people know the truth: the telegraph wire beyond Tomsk, connecting Western Russia with Siberia, has been cut! The Czar and General Kissoff...

9 hours 46 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

501

W. S. Gilbert - Iolanthe

Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the...

1 hour 21 minutes

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Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading)

In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Thirty years later, Judah ben Hur accidentally looses a tile upon the head of...

Adele de Pignerolles and 4 more 20 hours 24 minutes

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Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading)

Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert of Anne’s childhood. The young Rilla will need all her strength for the dark...

9 hours 52 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading)

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading)

John Dolittle, M. D., was once a famous doctor. But then he learned to talk Animal-Language, picked up several interesting pets, and gradually began to lose his patients. Finally the only patient who remains, the...

2 hours 28 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. But trouble is never far behind them, and their adventures are only...

11 hours 54 minutes

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In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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507

Charles Monroe Sheldon - In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

After a strange event at the Raymond First Church, Reverend Henry Maxwell asks his congregation a startling question: Will they pledge to try and do only what Jesus would for an entire year? Even more important,...

8 hours 35 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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