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Children's Fiction

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Edward Anthony - Pussycat Princess

This pussycat is out to have some adventurous fun in this enjoyable fairy tale for boys, girls and parents. Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson

Lynda Marie Neilson 3 hours 39 minutes

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511

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Domestic Bliss

This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) — Summary by David Lawrence

Ahmad Abdullah and 12 more 16 minutes

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456

S.E. Kiser - Father

A tribute to fatherhood by a little known author, — Summary by David Lawrence

Antti Vähäkainu and 13 more 18 minutes

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Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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John Kendrick Bangs - Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading)

Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. «I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the...

2 hours 38 minutes

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465

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler - Concerning Isabel Carnaby

Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. — Summary by...

MaryAnn and 3 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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Travel Fiction

464

Jean Webster - Wheat Princess

Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she brings the money to support it. Her adventures in Rome are different than...

Celine Major 9 hours 17 minutes

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie - Mrs. Dymond

Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to carve her own path, and she is almost forced to marry colonel Dymond. This book...

KHand and 5 more 12 hours 37 minutes

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Palmetto Leaves

After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they lived during the winter months. Over the years they expanded their cottage...

Michele Fry and 8 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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483

Unknown - Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl

Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their...

Jennifer Fournier 8 hours 56 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

486

Wilkie Collins - Woman in White - version 2

Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among «people like us», Featuring...

Tony Addison 30 hours 8 minutes

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Christmas Miscellany

A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 3 minutes

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419

Rosa Campbell Praed - Policy and Passion

«Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life» tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 32 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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