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The Tinder Box

In Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

Read by Sophia Field


Edgar Dubs Shimer


In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them…

Jesus Before Annas

In Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old

Read by Sophia Field


Jesse Lyman Hurlbut


Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old is a detailed, chronological presentation of the life of Christ, relying heavily on quoted portio…

Ecco che un'altra volta

In Antologia di poetesse italiane

Read by Sophia


Isabella di Morra


Poesie di: Compiuta Donzella (fl. seconda metà del duecento) Nina Siciliana (fl. 1290)* Ricciarda de' Selvaggi (? - 1313)* Eleonora…

Confidence

In Complete Poems

Read by Sophia


Anne Brontë


Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…

The Milky Way Falls Down

In Pee-Wee Harris in Luck

Read by Sophia R


Percy Keese Fitzhugh


Another episode in the life of the loveable Pee-Wee Harris, Boy Scout and Boy of Superior Appetite, who always lands on his feet, even when …

‘More Faithful than Favoured’ by Miss Eleanor Sellar

In The Animal Story Book

Read by Sophia Kaushik


Various


Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous s…

We Take a View of the Ice

In The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


William Clark Russell


Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

The Simpleton and his Little Black Hen

In The Wonder Clock

Read by Sophia Noelle


Howard Pyle


"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…

The Winter Term

In A Prefect's Uncle

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


P. G. Wodehouse


The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arriv…

12 - Why There Is a Black Head in the Buzzard Family

In Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories

Read by Sophia Choi


Thornton W. Burgess


Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the mead…

Chapter 16

In The Woodlanders

Read by Sophia Choi


Thomas Hardy


The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, …

12 - Chapter 12

In Camille

Read by Sophia Choi


Alexandre Dumas


The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subse…