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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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