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The Englishwoman in America
Read by Sibella Denton
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
A Room with a View
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
E. M. Forster
When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
The Book of the Little Past
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Josephine Preston Peabody
This is a very cute little book of children's poetry. All poems are short and suitable for very young children to read or listen to. - Summa…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Fables de La Fontaine, livre 10
Read by Jean Lambert
Jean de la Fontaine
Toujours observateur des comportements humains, Jean de La Fontaine ne cesse de les mettre en scène dans ces 16 fables, tantôt …
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 4
Read by Celine Major
Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
Fables de La Fontaine, livre 09
Read by Jean Lambert
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine poursuit son oeuvre pédagogique par la mise en scène des turpitudes et travers des humains. Le fabuliste r…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Lewis Carroll
A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger chi…
Wanted: A Husband
Read by Deborah Knight
Samuel Hopkins Adams
This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues y…
The Diary of a Birthday Doll
Read by EmmaHatton
Ethel Dow
A doll, given to a young girl for her birthday, goes through adventures and faults to get her new mother to love her. - Summary by Emma Hatt…
The Story of a Candy Rabbit
Read by Cori Samuel
Laura Lee Hope
The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …
A Hive of Busy Bees
Read by Rosa Grace
Effie Mae Hency Williams
In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma and Grandpa's farm. They have great fun, and every night Grandma tells them a story about…
Some Famous Women
Read by Pamela Nagami
Louise Creighton
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…
Sylvie and Bruno
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Lewis Carroll
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…
Madame de Treymes
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old…
Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School
Read by Christine Blachford
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
Being a good and loyal friend is not easy, and Grace learns it the hard way. But, as in all children's books, good triumphs over evil. (Summ…
The Old Peabody Pew
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)