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The Romance of Discovery: The Early Astronomers

In The Romance of Modern Astronomy

Read by Kathy Kay

Hector Macpherson

From the series, The Library of Romance, the reader is introduced in this book to the modern astronomy of 1911. The author discusses our sol…

A Pipe Dream

In Cheating the Junk-Pile — The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments

Read by Kathy Kay

Ethel Rose Peyser

This book of advice about the purchase and care of household appliances is intended to cheat the junk-pile by inspiring the buyer to get the…

Too Big a Price

In When Day is Done

Read by Kathy Kay

Edgar A. Guest

Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …

The Revolt of Mother

In Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Read by Kathy Kay

Alice Duer Miller

A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the…

An Old Woman in Peril

In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Read by Kathy Kay

Palmer Cox

Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…

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…