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Sarah Ann Smith
Read by Mari Patterson
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Blue Beard
Read by Sarah Jennings
Andrew Lang
In The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…
Diary
Read by Sarah Jennings
John Mead Gould
In How to Camp Out
Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…
Tokens
Read by MaryAnn
Myrtle Reed
In Sonnets to a Lover
This is a book of poetry by Myrtle Reed. Ms. Reed is most famous for her love stories such as A Spinner in the Sun and Old Rose and Silver, …
Curious Notions
Read by Kathleen Moore
Emily Sarah Holt
In Lady Sybil's Choice
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real…
080 - Chapter 34. General Observations on Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes.
Read by Sarah Jennings
Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton
In The Book of Household Management
"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…
Explanation …
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Wallace Stevens
In Harmonium
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…
A Testimony
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Christina Rossetti
In Goblin Market and Other Poems
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …
Sunday
Read by E. Moulton
Louisa May Alcott
In Little Men
Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (18…
Selected poems
Read by Kalynda
Sarah Flower Adams
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
February
Read by Becca
Sara Teasdale
In Rivers to the Sea
This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem "I Sha…
2 - Section 2
Read by Sue Anderson
Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth
In Living on Half a Dime a Day
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…
When Bryan Speaks
Read by Melissa Hoffman
Vachel Lindsay
In The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
"Mat," D. Webster Davis
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Untitled
Read by Rachel Murray
Various
In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
Section 2
Read by Peter Yearsley
Hargrave Jennings
In Phallic Worship
A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…
To Eliza
Read by Elsie Selwyn
George Moses Horton
In Poems by a Slave
This book of poems, published originally in 1829 and reprinted in 1837, was the second book written by George M. Horton. It addresses themes…
Chapter 10
Read by Mark Nelson
William Dean Howells
In A Traveller from Altruria
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. T…
Lady Susan, Part 2
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
In Jane Austen's Juvenilia
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…