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Marriage and The Home

In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906

Read by Lynne Handler


Max Baginski, John Russell Coryell, John Davidson, Emma Goldman, Mary Hansen, Otto Erich Hartleben and I. L. Peretz


"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…

11 - The Magician's Horse

In The Grey Fairy Book

Read by Lynne Handler


Andrew Lang


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other re…

08 - To the Near-Sighted

In Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse

Read by Lynne Handler


Anna Wales Abbot, ed and Anne Wales Abbot


The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publi…

Chapter 12A: Army and Navy

In Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Read by Lynne Handler


William H. Edwards and William Hanford Edwards


A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)

16 - Book 3, Ch 01

In The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 1

Read by Lynne Handler


Flavius Josephus


Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. It is a history of …

A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli

In My First Book (Version 2)

Read by Lynne Handler


Various


Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Read by Lynne Carroll


Elinore Pruitt Stewart


The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for hers…

A Little Country Girl

Read by Lynne T


Susan Coolidge


Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

Wyllard's Weird

Read by Lynne T


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…

The Valiant Runaways

Read by Lynne T


Gertrude Atherton


Savage bears, a river rescue, capture by Indians, escape on wild mustangs and a revolutionary battle await the protagonists of this suspense…

Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave

Read by Lynne T


Isaac Mason


Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures o…

Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society

Read by Lynne T


L. Frank Baum


Written under pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne. The story continues the adventures of three cousins, Louise, Patsy and Beth,with their debuts in …

Aunt Jane's Nieces And Uncle John

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L. Frank Baum


Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and thei…

Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch

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L. Frank Baum


Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch sees the reappearance of Louise and Arthur Weldon after the birth of their first child, Jane. The family liv…

The Fall River Tragedy

Read by Lynne T


Edwin H. Porter


The story of how Lizzie Borden supposedly murdered her parents has passed into American folklore, partly thanks to the albeit inaccurate pla…

The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer

Read by Lynne T


Anonymous


John Parsons Cook was a 28 year old bachelor, from a good family but not in robust health. He studied to become a lawyer, but instead of fol…