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Companionable Books
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Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
The Third Miss Symons
Read by Rachel Lintern
F. M. Mayor
Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world,…
The Judgment of Eve
Read by Kirsten Wever
May Sinclair
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…
Emily Dickinson. Poemas
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Emily Dickinson
Poemas de Emily Dickinson. Traducción de Silvina Ocampo. Prólogo de Jorge Luis Borges. Leo algunos de los poemas, escogidos de…
Miss Lochinvar
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Marion Ames Taggart
At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure which, will be arriving from the west to l…
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (version 2)
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Anne Brontë
The Bronte sisters, most famous for their novels, began their career with a slim volume of poetry, published under pseudonyms. It only sold …
Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading)
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Jane Austen
Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels…
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
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Vachel Lindsay
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
The Secret of Charlotte Brontë
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Frederika Richardson Macdonald
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2
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William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
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Various
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Some Eminent Women of our Times
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical s…
Reading: An Essay
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Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Phyllis Lee
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Oliver Herford
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Phyllis Lee by Oliver Herford .This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 1, 2023. --…
How Author Beth Moran Broke Her Life of Silence
Sheridan Voysey
Imagine dropping grades in exams because your pen ran out of ink and you couldn’t ask for a replacement. Imagine hiding from friends you saw…
Writing Quebec [Readings]
SANWAL CBC
A ten part series of readings of remarkable Quebec Literature, Fiction and Poetry, focusing on post-war writing. Heather Brown Between The C…
Sonnets
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Christina Rossetti
This is an excellent selection of introspective, inspirational and remarkably compelling sonnets from one of the greatest poets of the ninet…