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Part 5
Read by Bellona Times
Sarah Orne Jewett
In The Gray Mills of Farley
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
Introduction
Read by mlcui
Sarah Fielding
In The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children, and a si…
Mrs. Jenny Wren
Read by RosiesReading
David Cory
In Little Jack Rabbit and Professor Crow
Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…
Dialogue
Read by Suzanne Carol
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Off
Read by Rachel
Louisa May Alcott
In Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
Unlike the other volumes in this series, which are books of childrens' stories, Shawl-Straps is a novel. It is the story of Amanda, Matilda,…
Tokens
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
SARAH'S SUNDAY OUT
Read by Phil Chenevert
Amy Walton
In The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories
These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with …
Melinda
Read by Siler Weaver
Jim Kjelgaard
In The Duck-Footed Hound
Old Joe was the biggest, fightingest, craftiest coon in the Creeping Hills. No one had ever been able to catch him; not even Precious Sue, a…
Mrs. George Reece
Read by Joyce Nussbaum
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Our Post Office Box
Read by Kristin G.
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 02, Nov. 11, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
Ch 4 In which Ruth Cameron Meets with a Great Mishap
Read by Keith Salis
Frank Tousey
In Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 15: A Streak of Luck
Some folks are judged by their social or economic standing. Our hero, Ben Bailey, shows that true worth comes from richness of character. Th…
CHAPTER VIII - LOOKING AT PICTURES
Read by Kathleen Moore
Sarah Doudney and Sarah Doudney
In A Vanished Hand
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It …
George Washington
Read by Marya James
Various
In Mount Rushmore National Memorial
This publication of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of the Black Hills presents the history and description of one of the most …
A Feeling
Read by Sarah Sellari
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…
The Matrix
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
Sarah Shaw Russell
Read by Diana Schmidt
George William Curtis
In From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…
CHAPTER V. Tomty
Read by Marcus Locke
Laura E. Howe Richards
In Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon
There are five of these children, and I call them my Five Mice; and the queer house that they live in I call the Mouse-trap. They are such f…
At home in Bloomsbury
Read by Jim Locke
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In The Lady's Mile
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Winter Evening - Read by SET
Read by Sarah Terry
Archibald Lampman
In Winter Evening
Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent …
Prologue
Read by Elin
Violet Jacob
In Flemington (version 2)
Archie Flemington, a spy in Government service during the 1745 Jacobite rising, is sent to investigate the suspected rebel James Logie. Desp…