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II.XVI: Still Knitting

In A Tale of Two Cities

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, …

Report - Geography of Life

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


C. Hart Merriam (1845-1942) and National Geographic Society


National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …

Yes, Virginia

In Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Francis Pharcellus Church and Francis P. Church


"Is There A Santa Claus?" was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. …

Part 1

In When Mother Lets Us Cook

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Constance Johnson


A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils need…

Bk1 Ch1 Pt 2

In This Side of Paradise

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


F. Scott Fitzgerald


This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

Chapter 42

In A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Jules Verne


Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre d…

Wunderweiße Nächte

In Adventskalender 2013

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Luise Büchner and Rainer Maria Rilke


Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. - 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme. - Summary by Elli

007 - Chapter 5. General Directions for Making Soups.

In The Book of Household Management

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton


"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…

Chapter 02

In Whose Body?

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Dorothy L. Sayers


The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just …

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