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CHAPTER XI - A Crisis, part 1

In A Girl Among the Anarchists

Read by Kathy Hart


Olivia Rossetti Agresti and Helen Rossetti Angeli


Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist…

Ch 19: June 20 and August 10, 1792 Part 1

In Marie Antoinette and Her Son

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Luise Mühlbach


Marie Antoinette lives a happy life in a glittering court as Queen of France, but that soon changes as the revolution begins. Her son is Lo…

Chapter 20

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

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C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi


The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Kathy


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Meleager and Atalanta

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Puss in Boots

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

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William Patten


The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

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In The Sayings of Confucius

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Confucius 孔子


Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

Chapter 22

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

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Written by Kathleen Gatliffe, recorded by Kathleen Gatliffe and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

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In The Devil's Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Butter, Cheese, Coffee, Tea, &c.;

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

1-05 Part First - Chapter 5

In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy


Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

In a West Virginia Prison Camp

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones


Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…