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Lizzie Greystock

In The Eustace Diamonds

Read by Laura Koskinen

Anthony Trollope

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

Chapter 1, part 1-2

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I

Read by Laura Koskinen

John Bagnell Bury

J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third editi…

Chapter 7

In The Lost Stradivarius

Read by Laura Koskinen

John Meade Falkner

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case a…

02 Letter II. - Heloise to Abelard

In The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Read by Laura Koskinen

Peter Abelard and Heloise and Pierre Abélard

Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings

In A Child's History of England

Read by Laura Koskinen

Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in th…

Alice Vavasor's Great Relations

In Can You Forgive Her?

Read by Laura Koskinen

Anthony Trollope

“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…