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Chapter 7

In The Green Carnation

Read by Lisa Reichert


Robert Smythe Hichens


The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based o…

Chapter 9 Feeding Bees

In Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained

Read by Lisa Greene


Moses Quinby


THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PURE SURPLUS HONEY WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE, REMEDIES FO…

PART V. What Ginx's Baby Did With Himself. The Last Chapter.

In Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes

Read by Lisa Reichert


Edward Jenkins


In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from near…

We Agree To Compromise

In The Uninhabited House

Read by Lisa Greene


Charlotte Riddell


A Victorian charmer! River Hall is a handsomely furnished, eminently desirable residence, conveniently situated in a fashionable district. I…

INTRODUCTION: A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY (In the Manner of William L…

In A Parody Outline of History

Read by Lisa Greene


Donald Ogden Stewart


" Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in …

Vegetables

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Read by Lisa Chau


Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

El Doctor Sábelotodo

In Cuentos de Hadas, Vol. 2

Read by Lisa Caputo


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Jorge R. Rodríguez (traductor), Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Traducción de Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Cuentos para la infancia y el hogar") de Jacob y Wilhelm Grimm. (Introducci&oa…

Book I The Three Edgars Chapter I

In The Step on the Stair

Read by Lisa Greene


Anna Katharine Green


Green's last published detective novel, The Step on the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks…

The Round Robin

In Five Little Peppers Abroad

Read by Lisa Meyers


Margaret Sidney


This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Lit…

Marginalia

In Pagan Papers

Read by Lisa Reichert


Kenneth Grahame


We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered m…

On the Shelf

In Good Wives

Read by Lisa Packer


Louisa May Alcott


Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a sem…

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