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IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers

In My Larger Education

Read by Kaye Burke


Booker T. Washington


This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…

Indian Summer

In Lake Lyrics and Other Poems

Read by Kaye Burke


William Wilfred Campbell


A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of O…

A Strange Tow

In The Outdoor Girls in Florida

Read by Kaye Burke


Laura Lee Hope


In "The Outdoor Girls in Florida, Or Wintering in the Sunny South", the parents of one of the girls have bought an orange grove in…

Dining Under Difficulties

In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Read by Kaye Burke


Palmer Cox


Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…

A Child’s Lifted Cross

In Muse and Mint

Read by Kaye Burke


Walter Seymour Percy


Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…

Pork

In Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

Read by Linda Burke


Marion Harland


This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how …

Chapter 3 - In the dark

In Nequa or The Problem of the Ages

Read by Jeff Burke


Jack Adams


Nequa or The Problem of the Ages is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized …

010 - Part I, Book the First, Chapter VII - The North Point of Portland

In The Man Who Laughs

Read by Emily Burke


Victor Hugo


The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published unde…

A Trip to Plutopia

In Short Science Fiction Collection 063

Read by Jeff Burke


Emanuel Haldeman-Julius


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…

33 - The Slaughter of the Niflungs

In Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Read by Jeff Burke


Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson


The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …

Part 9 of THE STORY OF BIRD-OF-GOLD WHO WAS THE BRAMBLE GATHERER’S DAUGHTER IX.…

In The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter

Read by Jeff Burke


Pádraic Colum


King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But he had a s…

Social Condition - A - Al-Islam

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

Read by Jeff Burke


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…