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Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems

Read by Michele Fry


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…

The Crock of Gold

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James Stephens


This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…

Optimism, An Essay

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Helen Keller


Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …

Mongan's Frenzy

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James Stephens


James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…

The Mother (Version 2)

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Pearl S. Buck


As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…

I Worked for Lucky Luciano

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Anonymous


A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Maf…

Deirdre

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James Stephens


Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland's wily, chauvinistic King Conachur, who desires to marry her after his…

A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…

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John Muir


This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…

Introduction, and Aphorisms 1-99

In Poor Richard's Almanack

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Benjamin Franklin


A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

7.1 Relations With The Fair Sex

In The Many-Sided Franklin

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Paul Leicester Ford


A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford …

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