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The Gossamer Spider

In The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

Read by Lori Harton

Olive Beaupre Miller and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

Part III, Chapter Ten

In Madame Bovary

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Gustave Flaubert, tr. Eleanor Marx-Aveling and Gustave Flaubert

Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her mea…

Chapter 27

In Men of Iron

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Howard Pyle

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is…

Ch. VII - Riverboro Secrets

In Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Read by Lori Hebel

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Rebecca goes to live with her two stern aunts in a village in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. (summary from Wikipedia)

The Blind Man at the Fair

In Short Poetry Collection 059

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Joseph Campbell

LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 059: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 16 part 3

In The Critique of Dogmatic Theology

Read by Lori Arsenault

Leo Tolstoy

More systematic, but no less sincere than A Confession (which originally served as the introduction to this work), The Critique of Dogmatic …

05 - Part 1, Chapter 4 - Of Propriety as Regards One's Self

In The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

Read by Lori Arsenault

Elisabeth Celnart and Élisabeth Celnart

A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

04 - Emerson, Part 1

In The Spirit of American Literature

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John Albert Macy

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …