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7 - President Wilson and the World War (continued)

In History of the United States, Vol. VII

Read by Sarah K


Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard and Charles Austin Beard


Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

A White-Washed Uncle

In The Golden Age

Read by Sarah Kerrison


Kenneth Grahame


The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…

Chapter 21

In Jane Eyre

Read by Sarah Key-DeLyria


Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…

Chapter 20

In Mansfield Park

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Jane Austen


Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie…

Chapter 13

In A Girl of the Limberlost

Read by Sarah Key-DeLyria


Gene Stratton-Porter


A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…

Chapter 15

In Sense and Sensibility

Read by Sarah Key-DeLyria


Jane Austen


The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…

The Blazing World

Read by Sarah Terry


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish


The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …

How to Camp Out

Read by Sarah Jennings


John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (version 3)

Read by Sarah Hill


E. Nesbit


This story follows the six Bastable Children; Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius, on their adventures to help their widowe…

The Spirit of the Curé of Ars

Read by Sarah Cain


Alfred Monnin


St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…

Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen

Read by Eva K.


Jules Verne


Phileas Fogg ist ein angesehener Gentleman der Londoner Gesellschaft und ehrenwertes Mitglied des Reform Clubs. Sein Leben und sein Tagesabl…

Anna Karenina

Read by Eva K.


Leo Tolstoy


Der Roman aus der Epoche des russischen Realismus gibt einen tiefgründigen Einblick in das Leben und die Lebensanschauungen der russisc…

Die toten Seelen

Read by Eva K.


Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Pawel Tschitschikow entwirft eine groteske Idee, die ihn zu Geld bringen soll. Er macht Geschäfte mit Leibeigenen, und zwar mit toten! …

Der kleine Lord (version 2)

Read by Eva K.


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Cedrik hat sehr jung seinen Vater verloren und wird liebevoll von seiner Mutter, die er wie einst Papa "Herzlieb" nennt, aufgezoge…

Das grüne Haus

Read by Eva K.


Paula Dehmel


Die Erzählerin wohnt in einem grünen Haus, zusammen mit ihren drei Kindern und dem Dackel Dido. In ihrem Garten steht ein besonder…

Bahnwärter Thiel

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Gerhart Hauptmann


Die Novelle "Bahnwärter Thiel" entstand 1887 und gehört zu den herausragenden Werken des Naturalismus. Thiel ist ein in …

Die Hochzeit des Mönchs

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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer


Kein geringerer als Dante Alighieri wird hier zum Erzähler. Am Fürstenhof in Verona gibt er seine Geschichte über den Mö…