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I Establish My War Hospital

In Memories of My Life

Read by Jessica Hendra


Sarah Bernhardt


Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

HOW I KILLED A BEAR

In In the Wilderness (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


Charles Dudley Warner


Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

Chapter V, pt 1

In Antonia

Read by Jessica Hendra


George Sand


Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century …

Chapter 22

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

Read by Jessica Hendra


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…

Part 2, Chapter 7

In A Lost Lady (Verson 2)

Read by Jessica Hendra


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Charismatic Marian Forrester, the wife of a railroad pioneer, captures the heart of every person she meets. Niel Herbert is no exception. He…

The Venus Trap

In Short Science Fiction Collection 064

Read by Jessica Renfro


Evelyn E. Smith


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Chapter XLIII – Of What is Necessary for a Man's Redemption into the Kingdom of…

In Leviathan (Books III and IV)

Read by Jessica Louise


Thomas Hobbes


In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…

The Fairy City

In Australian Fairy Tales

Read by Jessica Burns


James Hume-Cook


"The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them came abou…

12 - Thoreau

In The Spirit of American Literature

Read by Jessica Louise


John Albert Macy


THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …

Hiram's Hospital

In The Warden (version 2)

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged eccles…

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