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The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool

In The Tower

Read by jack2


William Butler Yeats


The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

The Walking Corpse of Malden

In American Myths and Legends, Volume 1

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Charles M. Skinner


American Myths and Legends is another collection of folklore from author Charles M. Skinner, whose exhaustive and expansive work in the fiel…

THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR

In Grimm's Fairy Stories

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm


Fairies, Evil Step Mothers, Enchanted Forests, Golden Geese, Poor Little Children, Fairy Godmothers, Magic wells, and oh, so many many more …

Two Visions

In Narrative Poems

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Alfred Austin


Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913) became English Poet Laureate after the death of Tennyson. He was awarded the post only after several other poets…

Preface

In The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 1

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Margaret of Navarre and Marguerite Of Navarre


THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day cont…

The Lord of Chateau Noir

In The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short st…

Chapter XV, part 3

In The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

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DeWitt C. Peters and Dewitt C. Peters


Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide - an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literatu…

Chapter 14 Part 1

In The Life of Mozart Volume 1

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Otto Jahn


An in depth look into the life of one of the greatest ever composers and musicians. Mozart was truly a gifted individual and this is an inte…

Some contemporary portraits

In Recollections of the Civil War

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Charles Anderson Dana


Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes…

Experiencing Language

In New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

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Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Contrasting the dynamics of English  and Finnish education policy­making

In Department of Education Public Seminars

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Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Eye of Apollo

In Short Mystery Story Collection 002

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G. K. Chesterton


LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

Three Points and the Paper

In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

Chapter 17

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

Characteristics of Different Animals

In The Training of Wild Animals

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Frank Charles Bostock


Today, performing animals are frowned on by many but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, traveling menageries afforded entertainment …

076 - Part II, Book the Fifth, Chapter I - The Durability of Fragile Things

In The Man Who Laughs

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Victor Hugo


The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published unde…

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