Bridget Gaige

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Children's Fiction

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Sara Cone Bryant - How to Tell Stories to Children

Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to tell children. This volume expounds on her theories and practices of...

Sean McGaughey and 4 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Prentiss - Aunt Jane's Hero

Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her «hero», Horace, is far different: in the beginning of the story, he is a good but a little...

Jean A and 2 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

935

Edward Eggleston - Hoosier Schoolmaster

«Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a...

Bridget Gaige 5 hours 48 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's House Party

Lloyd Sherman, the «Little Colonel», is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into...

Lois C. Johnson and 8 more 5 hours 24 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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General Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces

Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her money and estate from her fiancé, Thomas Bradley, who died before their wedding...

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 5 hours 18 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Humorous Fiction

Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2)

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The...

Dave Ranson and 3 more 5 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

Horatio Alger, Jr. - Adrift in New York

John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and his long lost son — if alive. John thinks it would be best if Florence and...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - Not Quite Eighteen

Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 22 minutes

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Romance

Myrtle Reed - Lavender and Old Lace

«Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to come to Jane for quiet and rest. When Ruth arrives, the maid gives her a letter...

Bridget Gaige 4 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Louisa May Alcott - Aunt Jo's Scrapbag

A collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott that were written with the intent to entertain the whole family and to fill children's heads with wonder and delight. (Summary by Jennifer Stearns)

Diana Majlinger and 10 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House

General Fiction

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Harriet E. Wilson - Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House

Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Bellmont's- where she is treated badly. This is a sad book, but Frado's...

Bridget Gaige 2 hours 39 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Clara E. Laughlin - Everybody's Lonesome

Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mother's advice, she reluctantly visits her Godmother in New York, who teaches...

Bridget Gaige 1 hour 29 minutes

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New

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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