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Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe

In Famous Modern Ghost Stories

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Dorothy Scarborough, compiler, Edgar Allan Poe and Variousanddorothy Scarborough


An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of moder…

Lift Off !

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Kelly Clous


Lift Off is the ultimate game - a game of strength, speed, strategy, and teamwork! After several intense competitions, a seventh grader, Kyl…

Fairy Fingers

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha a…

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules…

Italian Life and Legends

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…

Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female…

The Mute Singer, a Novel

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Sylvie de la Roche is the daughter of a destitute former nobleman and his wife living in the slums of Paris circa 1847. Her magnificent sing…

Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She w…

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage…

The Little Robinson of Paris, or, Industry's Triumph

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Eugénie Foa


In this Victorian era children’s novel, haughty Breton aristocrats unjustly reject and cruelly abandon the young orphan Cecil after the deat…

Pelayo: or Cavern of Covadonga, A Romance

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This epic poem tells the dramatic story of King Pelayo, an Asturian ruler in Northern Spain who lead his people to a hard-fought victory ove…

Reviewers Reviewed

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This satirical text was a response to the drubbing the fledgling poet received at the hands of the critics to her debut work, “Pelayo, or th…

Emma (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much li…

The Children of Odin

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Pádraic Colum


Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the advent…

Jane Eyre (version 2)

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Charlotte Brontë


Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governes…

Lady Audley's Secret

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…

Northanger Abbey (version 2)

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Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…

Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

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Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

Persuasion (version 2)

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Jane Austen


Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied …

Wives and Daughters (version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …

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