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Impartiality
Read by Eliza Winters
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
44 - Joseph Jasper
Read by Marea Brook
George MacDonald
In Mary Marston
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…
08 - Anecdote of General Washington
Read by Rhonda Federman
Lydia Maria Child
In The Freedmen's Book
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
Neale O'Neil Gets Established
Read by Louise Jaeschke
Grace Brooks Hill
In The Corner House Girls at School
The adventures of the Corner House girls continue as they head off to school. - Summary by Lia LalloGrace Brooks Hill was a house pseudonym…
Little Eve Edgarton
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative o…
19 - SALLIE HICKS'S FOREFINGER
Read by Jannie Meisberger
Abbie Phillips Walker
In Sandman's Goodnight Stories
Have you every read a bed time story to a child? Or had one read to you? Fun, isn't it? These 28 delightful, short, well written and whimsic…
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…
An Agreement
Read by Kerry Adams
G. K. Chesterton
In The Queen of the Seven Swords
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “…
My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
Read by Ben Tucker
Mark Twain
In A Curious Dream and Other Sketches
Celebrated American humorist Mark Twain delivers a delightful collection of the witty stories for which he is so well known. From the stran…
The Intelligence Office
Read by Bob Neufeld
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Mosses From An Old Manse
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…
Two of a Kind
Read by Claire Schreuder
Harriet Lummis Smith
In Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms
Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start their married life in Boston. The book follows their many adve…
The Maple
Read by Abby
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Wills - Woman's Suffrage
Read by RussellEric
Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
In 1000 Things Worth Knowing
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…
Comradery
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
Ch. 7: Blenheim, Pt. 2
Read by Pamela Nagami
Louise Creighton
In Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill, an impoverished country gentlema…
The Convention
Read by MaryAnn
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Purpose
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1919. - Summary by Carolin
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - John Jasper
Read by Libby Gohn
Hallie Erminie Rives
In Tales From Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dicken…
Alice Gray
Read by Maria Abrenica
Amerel
In The Summer Holidays: A Story for Children
Mr. Harvey's two sons Thomas and John were very anxious for their cousin Samuel Reed to spend the August holidays with them. The boys had no…
Without the Cane and the Derby
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Carl Sandburg
In Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
In Memoriam
Read by James K. White
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In Violets And Other Tales
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…