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Stories by English Authors: London

Read by Kirsten Wever


F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

Initials Only

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…

Paula the Waldensian

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Eva Lecomte and Eva Lecomtetranslated Byw. M. Strong


Into the home of an interesting but self-centered family in old France comes Paula, a young orphaned cousin, from the little village of Vill…

Cakes & Ale, A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More…

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Edward Spencer


A long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him:—“Give, oh! give me the subject of a book …

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

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Kate Langley Bosher


"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…

One Basket

Read by Phil Chenevert


Edna Ferber


This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Go…

Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland

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Lewis Carroll


Die Titelheldin Alice wird während eines langweiligen Picknicks mit ihrer Schwester auf ein weißes Kaninchen aufmerksam, dem sie …

The Lady of the Barge

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W. W. Jacobs


Another collection of short stories, a mixture of the humorous and the horrifying all with unexpected twists - Summary by Inkell

My First Book

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Various


This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…

Brewing

Read by MaryAnn


Alfred Chaston Chapman


Great as is the debt of gratitude which the brewing industry owes to the labours of scientific men, it has been more than repaid by the imme…

My Chinese Marriage

Read by Danielle Cartwright


Mae Franking


Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…

White April

Read by Laurie Banza


Harold Vinal


In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…

The Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf


A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

The Girl at Central

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Geraldine Bonner


Molly Morganthau, day operator in the telephone exchange, helps to solve a murder. (Summary by D. A. Frank)

Anything Once

Read by Roger Melin


Isabel Ostrander


An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…

The Type-Writer Girl

Read by Grant Hurlock


Grant Allen


(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

The Girl Scouts at Home

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Katherine Keene Galt


Little Rosanna Horton was a very poor little girl. When I tell you more about her, you will think that was a very odd thing to say.She lived…

The Precipice

Read by Mary Schneider


Elia Wilkinson Peattie


Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…

The Ruby and the Caldron

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Anna Katharine Green


A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…

Sophia

Read by Teel McClanahan III


Teel McClanahan III


At age 7, Sophia was struck down with a life-threatening disease. Faced with a choice between an unending life in the body of a child and he…

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