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The Barbadoes Girl

Read by Chieko Steely

Barbara Hofland

Matilda Sophia Hanson, whose father has recently died in their country of Barbadoes in the West Indies, must live for a time with family fri…

On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking, part 1

In The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Read by Chieko Steely

William Hazlitt

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…

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In The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy

Read by Chieko Steely

Barbara Hofland

The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he …