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Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


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Jonathan Myerson You Choose


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You Choose by Jonathan Myerson Encountering an old flame on the Tube, Zoe's comfortable life begins to disintegrate as Simon's dark vision s…

He and She

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Rachel Crothers


The Type-Writer Girl

Read by Grant Hurlock


Grant Allen


(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

Children's Language and Literacy Impairments

Read by Dorothy Bishop


Dorothy Bishop


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Peggy Delaney by James W. Nichol


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PEGGY DELANEY by James W. Nichol  A hard-drinking, hard-writing forty-ish Toronto newspaper columnist who can more than hold her own wi…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


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Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47

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Geraldine Jewsbury


'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

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Various


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…

A Battle of the Books

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Gail Hamilton


"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…

D.H. Lawrence

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


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English as She is Wrote

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William James Mcglothlin


"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentional…

The Bent Twig

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

The Game of Life and How to Play It

Read by Amy Conger


Florence Scovel Shinn


Florence Scovel Shinn, an illustrator living in New York City, became a teacher of New Thought after a divorce. New Thought was a movement w…

The Precipice

Read by Mary Schneider


Elia Wilkinson Peattie


Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Read by Jennette Selig


Louisa May Alcott


Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is …

Cornelli

Read by Jael Baldwin


Johanna Spyri


Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…

Kate Atkinson Little Lives


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A funny and moving monologue, written by the Whitbread Prize-winning novelist Kate Atkinson, in which Alannah McKay from Edinburgh is retiri…

Stories by English Authors: London

Read by Kirsten Wever


F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

Village Life in America

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Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke


A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

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