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Elizabeth Fry, Part 2

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

Read by Michele Eaton


Elbert Hubbard


Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings m…

Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems

Read by Michele Fry


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…

The Prophet (version 2)

Read by Michele Fry


Kahlil Gibran


The Prophet is an inspirational book of 28 lyrical prose essays on life, love, children, religion, work, and more, - written in English by t…

An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll

Read by Michele Fry


I. Newton Baker


Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the …

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3)

Read by Michele Fry


Jules Verne


Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged …

Mongan's Frenzy

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…

The Charwoman's Daughter

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…

Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories

Read by Michele Fry


Harriet Beecher Stowe


A sequel to Oldtown Folks, featuring some of the same characters, these are 15 charming short stories told by ole' Sam Lawson to entertain H…

The Many-Sided Franklin

Read by Michele Fry


Paul Leicester Ford


A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford …

The Charwoman's Shadow

Read by Michele Fry


Lord Dunsany


Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…

Poor Richard's Almanack

Read by Michele Fry


Benjamin Franklin


A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Read by Michele Fry


Annie L. Burton


This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…

The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Read by Michele Fry


Thomas Dixon, Jr.


The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel…

The Gospel of Wealth

Read by Michele Fry


Andrew Carnegie


What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…

Lady Byron Vindicated

Read by Michele Fry


Harriet Beecher Stowe


In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's …

From Alien To Citizen

Read by Michele Fry


Edward A. Steiner


Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversi…

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Read by Michele Fry


Lord Dunsany


This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, which became public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one …

Marietta: A Maid of Venice

Read by Michele Fry


Francis Marion Crawford


This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…

The Crock of Gold

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…