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Pretty Maruschka

In A Book of Fairy Tales

Read by E. Henderson

Sabine Baring-Gould

This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Be…

Night Ninth, Part One

In The Complaint; or Night Thoughts

Read by Ania E

Edward Young

A book-length poem, often associated with the Graveyard School of poetry, musing upon life and death. - Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek

Maiden with the Gipsy Look

In Verses for Children

Read by E. Henderson

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

This is a volume of verses by JHG Ewing. Ms. Ewing was best known as an author of short stories and fairy tales, but this is a volume of rhy…

Chapter X - Saint Anthony's Well

In The Two Destinies

Read by E Ogston

Wilkie Collins

Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…

Chapter VI - The Battle of Chalons, AD 451 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Read by James E.

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

CHAPTER XIX: Trophies, Buckskin and Rawhide

In The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those Who Travel in the Wild…

Read by E Snow

Horace Kephart

In the Introduction to Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote: “My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical servi…

Prelude-Section 2

In Beowulf (version 2)

Read by Tad E.

Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere

Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The m…

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