Culture & Heritage
Christmas Under Three Flags
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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox
This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur
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Beatrice E. Clay
"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…
The Outcry
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Henry James
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…
Fire - Flowers
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18,…
Dark Princess
Read by Verla Viera
W. E. B. Du Bois
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…
The Age of the Motored Things
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project…
Minnie's Sacrifice
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Frances E. W. Harper
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
South African Folk-Tales
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James A. Honeÿ
James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …
Man's Rights
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Annie Denton Cridge
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…
Stories and Pictures
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I. L. Peretz
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
Original Stories from Real Life
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…
The Fables of Pilpay
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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…
The Mother
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Pearl S. Buck
As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…
Iolanthe
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W. S. Gilbert
Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to t…
Folk-Lore and Legends
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Unknown
This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…
In Old Plantation Days
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Garthowen
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Allen Raine
The story centers around the Owens' family and young ‘Morva of the Moor’, the prettiest girl in the world.The Owens of Garthowen, once a pre…
The Black Candle
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Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …
Baltimore Hats
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William T. Brigham
It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…