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In Work: A Story of Experience

Read by Wendy Belcher


Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

07 - Of Bashfulness

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

Read by Wendy Almeida


Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Chapter 21, part 01

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

Read by Wendy Almeida


David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

To Charles Dickens

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang


With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

The Golden Rule, Part I

In Stories in Black and White

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Margaret O. Oliphant


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

The Plays - Rosmersholm

In The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

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George Bernard Shaw


This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…

Glooskap: Story 8

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

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Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

Are Editors People?

In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

Read by Wendy Almeida


Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

Book 1 (The Shimerdas), Chapter 11

In My Ántonia

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Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…

The Green Silk Purse

In Vanity Fair

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William Makepeace Thackeray


Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…

Dunbuy Haven

In The Mystery of the Sea

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Bram Stoker


Mystery of the Sea is a novel with elements of adventure, supernatural and romance. Archie Hunter goes on a holiday to relax but finds he se…

The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet

In International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds and Alphonse Daudet


The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

Hat Tricks

In Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Read by Wendy Almeida


Professor Louis Hoffman


This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…

A Memory

In The Great Small Cat and Others

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May E. Southworth


A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these tales have very sad endings. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Chapter 50: FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE

In The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

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Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

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