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The Wolf and the Five Little Goats

In Mother’s Nursery Tales

Read by Scott Bennett

Katharine Pyle

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain by Sol Smith

In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

Read by Bob Scott

Sol Smith

Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

View from West Point

In American Scenery, Vol. 1

Read by Scott Bennett

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description…

New Year's Eve, 1844 - A Fragment

In Early Poems

Read by Scott Bennett

James Russell Lowell

This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

Samuel F. B Morse & the Invention of the Telegraph

In Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Read by Scott Bennett

Frank Puterbaugh Bachman

This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Ediso…

1.4 A Murder, a Murder of his Wife

In Curiosities of Street Literature

Read by Scott Bennett

Various

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…

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