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40 - THE MAN AT LAST

In Erema

Read by MaryAnn

Richard Doddridge Blackmore

A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the…

Chapter IV

In Ramona

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and ge…

Chapter 12 - Work Without Hope

In New Grub Street

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George Gissing

"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, whic…

Chapter 8: On the track of Ulysses

In What Katy Did Next

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Susan Coolidge

This is the third book of the famous "What Katy did" series. (Summary by Elli)

12 - The Cockney

In Observations of an Orderly

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Ward Muir

Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…

Solitude read by MAS

In Solitude (Wilcox)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. . Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,. . But has trouble enou…

Leaf VII. Heart Agonies.

In The Melting of Molly

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Maria Thompson Daviess

Meet Molly: a quirky, spirited twenty-five-year old, widowed for 6 years, living in picturesque Hillsboro with her aunt amidst gossipy neigh…

03 - Chapter 3

In A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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James E. Seaver

Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them …

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