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In The Little Colonel

Read by Maria Therese

Annie Fellows Johnston

The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied rese…

Version 12

In Lydia is gone this many a year

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Lizette Woodworth Reese

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of 'Lydia is gone this many a year' by Lizette Woodworth Reese. This was the Fortnightly Poetry …

01 - In the Pear-Tree

In The Gate of the Giant Scissors

Read by Maria Therese

Annie Fellows Johnston

This is the story of Joyce, an American girl who has been sent abroad to France to study, and of her adventures in France, - the wonderful h…

15 - One's Own Children are always Prettiest

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

1 - The Tale of the Peacock Trees

In The Trees of Pride

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G. K. Chesterton

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as…

25 - The Finding of the Superman

In The Flying Inn

Read by Maria Therese

G. K. Chesterton

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…

30 - How the Stalos Were Tricked

In The Orange Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

03 - The Half-Chick

In The Green Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

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