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Irish Idylls
Read by James E. Carson
Jane Barlow
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbeliev…
The Woman in the Alcove
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Anna Katharine Green
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or,…
Not Quite Eighteen
Read by Bridget Gaige
Susan Coolidge
Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and dayd…
Pollyanna (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Eleanor H. Porter
The story begins when Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her Aunt Polly, a strict and dutiful middle aged woman. Pollyanna imme…
Tenterhooks
Read by Helen Taylor
Ada Leverson
The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', b…
Letters to a Daughter
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Hubert Bland
Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …
Reviewers Reviewed
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
This satirical text was a response to the drubbing the fledgling poet received at the hands of the critics to her debut work, “Pelayo, or th…
Soup of Alphabets, Volume 002
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Various
A second helping of Alphabet Books! This collection has a wide-ranging variety of short books, and not only for younger readers, but also fo…
Write it Right
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Ambrose Bierce
Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…
A Strange Disappearance (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Anna Katharine Green
Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant Q the case of a serving girl who has vanished from the househo…
Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
A Strange Disappearance
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Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2
Read by Michele Eaton
Eliza Haywood
This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden …
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
What would happen if someone really believed that "Ask and you shall receive"? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of m…
Concerning Isabel Carnaby
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of h…
Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female…
To The Lighthouse
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
The White Linen Nurse (version 2)
Read by MaryAnn
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…
Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen
The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…
Amy Foster
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Joseph Conrad
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck …