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Mr. Carson's Intentions Revealed.

In Mary Barton

Read by Wendy Belcher


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

20 - The Wedding Dress

In Mary Marston

Read by Wendy Almeida


George MacDonald


Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

Chapter 6

In A Dark Night's Work

Read by Wendy Almeida


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

THE FIR-TREE

In The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Version 2)

Read by Wendy Hall


Asa Don Dickinson and Variousandasa Don Dickinson


This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won …

Chapter 2- Servant

In Work: A Story of Experience

Read by Wendy Belcher


Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

07 - Of Bashfulness

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

Read by Wendy Almeida


Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Chapter 21, part 01

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

Read by Wendy Almeida


David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

To Charles Dickens

In Letters to Dead Authors

Read by Wendy Almeida


Andrew Lang


With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

The Golden Rule, Part I

In Stories in Black and White

Read by Wendy Almeida


Margaret O. Oliphant


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

The Plays - Rosmersholm

In The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

Read by Wendy Almeida


George Bernard Shaw


This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…

Glooskap: Story 8

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

Read by Wendy Almeida


Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

Are Editors People?

In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

Read by Wendy Almeida


Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

Book 1 (The Shimerdas), Chapter 11

In My Ántonia

Read by Wendy Belcher


Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…

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