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Letter 33

In Letters from England, 1846-1849

Read by Sibella Denton


Elizabeth Davis Bancroft


Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamic years in European history. As …

00 - Preface

In Celtic Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs


Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, …

Book Three - XV - From Peril to Safety

In In Search of the Castaways

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Jules Verne


The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself …

Dedication and Preface

In The English Governess at the Siamese Court

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Anna Harriette Leonowens


In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut,…

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