Kymm Zuckert

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jean Webster - Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs . The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs . Among the recipients of...

Kymm Zuckert and 8 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Animals & Nature

613

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

509

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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Romance

570

Kate Chopin - Awakening

Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons,...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Family

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy (version 2)

Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill, poor little Elizabeth Ann is sent to live with the much-feared Putney...

Kymm Zuckert and 1 more 4 hours 43 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, through her college years. She writes the...

Betsie Bush and 2 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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D. H. Lawrence - Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 26 minutes

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Poetry

508

John Donne - Death Be Not Proud

This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and...

Andrew Miller and 10 more 16 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

709

Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory

This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here, the eponymous Richard Cory with all his wealth and charm is viewed...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 14 minutes

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Poetry

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Barbara Frietchie

This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)

Kristin Hughes and 3 more 13 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

This was the weekly poetry project for 14 May 2006. Spring’s flowers come and go all too quickly, but Wordsworth’s classic poem reminds us that their blessings last.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 8 more 13 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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