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The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051

Read by The Countess


Beatrix Potter


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Chapter 13, Table Etiquette

In The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

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Florence Hartley


A COMPLETE HAND BOOK FOR THE USE OF THE LADY IN POLITE SOCIETY. CONTAINING FULL DIRECTIONS FOR CORRECT MANNERS, DRESS, DEPORTMENT, AND CONVE…

Sauces and Fudge

In Recipes: Hershey's Baking Chocolate

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Hershey Chocolate Corporation


This little booklet, published by the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, presents a group of basic chocolate recipes including sauces. fudge, ca…

Chapter 17

In Northanger Abbey (Version 5)

Read by The Countess


Jane Austen


What could be more entrancing than Northanger Abbey? Catherine quite fears the Abbey. Find out why! - Summary by Victoria Bell

Uncle Wiggily's Picnic

In Uncle Wiggily's Story Book (Version 2)

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Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggily, the Gentleman Rabbit, has had a lot of adventures. Here are some of the most amusing and exciting ones. As always, Uncle Wi…

Flight and Pursuit

In The Cornet of Horse

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G. A. Henty


Rupert Holiday is forced to flee England after wounding a miscreant in fight, and joins the Duke of Marlborough in his campaigns during the …

Twelve Years in the Saddle

Read by Will the Ninja


W. John L. Sullivan


Sergeant Sullivan tells the story of his life as a Texas Ranger for 12 incredible years in the late 1800s. (Summary by Will Nuessle)

The Light Princess

Read by Fox in the Stars


George MacDonald


Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it remove…

On Our Selection

Read by Son of the Exiles


Steele Rudd


The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…

Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)

Read by Son of the Exiles


Steele Rudd


Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection""The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eig…

Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a w…

Bible (WEB) 32: Jonah

Read by Fox in the Stars


World English Bible


This short narrative book of the Old Testament contains one of the most famous Bible Stories, of “Jonah and the Whale.” The “great fish” how…

The Congo

Read by Fox in the Stars


Vachel Lindsay


The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms …

Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in …

Digger Smith

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…

A Calendar of Sonnets

Read by Fox in the Stars


Helen Hunt Jackson


Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet …

Bill & Doreen's Married Life

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship"…

Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Blok…

Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value--Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern…

In Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

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Karl Marx, transl. Moore and Aveling and Karl Marx


Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …