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Maxims 271-280

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Read by Sonrisa Jones


Baltasar Gracián


300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F.…

In The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan


This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

In the Trail of the Hun/SOME STUNT—TRY IT/WHEN THE HUN QUIT SMOKING

In Stories from the Trenches: Funny Tales the Soldiers Tell

Read by Tim Jones


Carleton Britton Case


Carleton B. Case is well known for wit and humor, as the title of the book leads one to believe this book will follow suit. - Summary by Apr…

Ch VI. Workers in Art, Part 2

In Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

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Samuel Smiles


Self-Help is the book that gave its name to the whole genre of literature known by that name. It is full of profiles of individuals who, thr…

In Which the Twin Sisters Tell a Story Between Them

In The Fairy Latchkey

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Magdalene Horsfall


Philomene Isolde is a good little girl, but has been very lonely since the death of her mother. Playing make-believe in the garden, Philomen…

Rustem's Romance - Persian

In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 06

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Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi


You get to choose what you want to read! (All recordings in English]) So long as the source is Public Domain for you, any short story or cha…

Cray Gets his Orders

In Snarled Identities

Read by Tim Jones


Nicholas Carter


Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …

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