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Chapter 5

In Bunner Sisters

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Edith Wharton

“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…

The Hard-Boiled Egg

In Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Ellis Parker Butler

Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To…

Preface, Chap 1, Chap 2

In Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Walt Whitman

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

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