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George Eliot - Brother Jacob

Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious David Faux and his idiot brother, Jacob. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T 1 hour 45 minutes

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487

Fireside Christmas Short Stories

A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection is unique: some make us pause to consider the meaning of Christmas, others...

Lynne T and 11 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

506

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Christmas Hirelings

It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep...

Patti Cunningham and 2 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Johanna Spyri - Veronica

Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertrude, who has a son of her own. The son, Dietrich, is learning how to become a...

Daryl Wor 2 hours 52 minutes

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Pansy - Links in Rebecca's Life

Rebecca Harlowe is a young woman who strives to apply Christ's instructions in the Bible to her daily life and relationships. In this book we witness some of her successes and failures and the effect of her example on...

BookAngel7 6 hours 6 minutes

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Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Louisa May Alcott - Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Dramatic Reading)

When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for Thanksgiving on their own. The story of the adventures of Eph, Tilly, Prue,...

39 minutes

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Emilie Maceroni - Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time

Magic Words is a Victorian tale of a community and how a few women bring a special kind of Christmas magic to the community-- Magic that can heal wounded hearts. (Introduction by Sean McGaughey)

Sean McGaughey 1 hour 6 minutes

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432

Charles Dickens - Chimes

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the «Hungry Forties», a time...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 11 minutes

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John Leighton - Christmas Comes but Once a Year

A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 9 minutes

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Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope)

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P. G. Wodehouse - Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope)

The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter...

Don W. Jenkins 8 hours 20 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - One Day More

A one-act play. Eccentric (crazy?) Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and saved, outfitting a house for Harry to inherit upon his return, which will be in...

47 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Amelia E. Barr - Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love...

David Lawrence 8 hours 15 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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