Cate Barratt

55 books

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Detective Fiction

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Evil Guest

Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious characters. An unwanted guest visiting a dreary and isolated home is murdered; the thriller leads the...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

445

Jacob Abbott - Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30-year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 44 minutes

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Historical

467

Alice Turner Curtis - Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter

Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising,...

Amber Hamilton and 8 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

447

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Story of a Bad Boy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly...

Don Halpert and 7 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

General Fiction

443

Jacob A. Riis - Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital...

Diana Majlinger and 7 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Romance

487

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - John Marchmont's Legacy

Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always «done her duty.» However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in...

Cate Barratt 17 hours 7 minutes

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Short Stories

479

D. H. Lawrence - Prussian Officer

The collection of short stories — of which The Prussian Officer is one — was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly are the focus of the piece and, while socially the superior of his orderly, the...

Cate Barratt 7 hours 31 minutes

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Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5

*Non-fiction

440

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing...

Cate Barratt 22 hours 16 minutes Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

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Children's Fiction

487

Caroline Emelia Stephen - French History for English Children

A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children. (Summary by Guero)

Guero and 15 more 12 hours 3 minutes

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Historical Fiction

438

William Henry Pope Jarvis - Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike

Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 6 hours 21 minutes

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*Non-fiction

479

Jacob Abbott - Richard III (Makers of History series)

Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth....

Cate Barratt 4 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

529

William Wordsworth - Microphone Showdown 2

This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a...

TriciaG and 45 more 2 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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