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A Calendar of Sonnets
Read by Fox in the Stars
Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet …
The Light Princess
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George MacDonald
Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it remove…
The Congo
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Vachel Lindsay
The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms …
Bible (WEB) 32: Jonah
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World English Bible
This short narrative book of the Old Testament contains one of the most famous Bible Stories, of “Jonah and the Whale.” The “great fish” how…
On Our Selection
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Steele Rudd
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)
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Steele Rudd
Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection""The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eig…
Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")
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C. J. Dennis
"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in …
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")
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C. J. Dennis
"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Blok…
Bill & Doreen's Married Life
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C. J. Dennis
"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship"…
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme
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C. J. Dennis
Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a w…
Digger Smith
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C. J. Dennis
“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…