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Tom was Goin' for a Poet.

In Farm Ballads

Read by Abigail Johnston

Will Carleton

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where…

Chapter VII - The Murderess Consults the Authorities

In The Legacy of Cain

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Wilkie Collins

Eunice and Helena are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. They grow up quietly and happily, until some dark sec…

The Sirens, Or Pleasures

In The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

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Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon

"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding th…

In the Arms of the Mist Maidens

In Coppertop

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Harold Gaze

The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also ha…

The Story of King Arthur - Part 1: Of Arthur's Birth and How He Became King

In The Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

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William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…