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In Edison, His Life and Inventions

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Widowers and Widows

In The Spinster Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Myrtle Reed

A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

Nature

In Nature

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…

56 - Book 4, Chapters 31 - 33

In Amadis of Gaul

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Vasco de Lobeira and Vasco De Lobeira

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th…

Babyhood

In Current Superstitions

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Fanny Dickerson Bergen

No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

The Three Bears

In Denslow's Three Bears

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

W.W. Denslow and W. W. Denslow

This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…

Garden of Love, The (Experience)

In Songs of Innocence and Experience

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

William Blake

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience we…

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