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Orra
Joanna Baillie
Considered by her contemporaries a playwright “second only to Shakespeare,” Joanna Baillie was one of the most critically acclaimed writers …
Cymbeline (Version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Cymbeline is one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote, classified by scholars as a late romance or comedy. It's famous for featuring a highly…

Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 11, January 13, 1880
Various
Harper's Young People, first published in 1879, was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short storie…

Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
Flora J. Cooke
Written for first through third graders, this book aims to expand not only the imagination but the vocabulary. For listeners following along…

India's Love Lyrics
Laurence Hope
The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name…
Cloister and the Hearth (version 2)
Charles Reade
Set in the 15th century, the Cloister and the Hearth is a story Gerald Eliassoen, a young scribe and illuminator, who travels through seven …

Life of Charles Dickens
Sir Frank T. Marzials
Early biography of Charles Dickens published just 17 years after Dickens' death. Summary by Colleen McMahon

Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound
John R. Jewitt
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

Flower-Patch Among the Hills
Flora Klickmann
After poor health forced Klickmann to move from London to the country, she began writing a series of sketches for The Girl's Own Paper and i…

Misanthrope
Molière
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the character…

Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery
Andy Adams
Adventure series in exotic locations. This adventure is set in the exotic Island of Hawaii and involves the search for a missing sloop and …

Unaddressed Letters
Frank Athelstane Swettenham
“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2)
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
Various
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…

Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used t…
Richard Mead
This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the unde…

Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish
Charles John Tibbits
In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors …

Manx Fairy Tales
Sophia Morrison
A collection of fairy tales regarding myths and legends of the Isle of Man. Sophia was considered one of the key figures of the Manx cultur…

Folk-lore and legends: English
Charles John Tibbits
The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is be…

Annals of Ann
Kate Trimble Sharber
As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …

Northern Trails, Book 2
William J. Long
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up a…