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34 - The Messengers

In The Islands of Magic

Read by Jessica Louise


Elsie Spicer Eells


LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…

Chapter 9: FAREWELL TO THE FOREST

In The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

Read by Jessica Hendra


Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

The first wife's wedding-ring

In Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

Read by Jessica Jones


Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imag…

Chapter 7 - Part 1

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Read by Jessica Hendra


Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Part 2, Chapter 8

In A Lost Lady (Verson 2)

Read by Jessica Hendra


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Charismatic Marian Forrester, the wife of a railroad pioneer, captures the heart of every person she meets. Niel Herbert is no exception. He…

XXXVI

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Jessica Hendra


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Chapter IIIa, Part 1

In An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

Read by Jessica Hendra


Theron Clark Crawford


The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is …

The Venus Trap

In Short Science Fiction Collection 064

Read by Jessica Renfro


Evelyn E. Smith


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…

The Perdu

In Earth's Enigmas

Read by Jessica Renfro


Sir Charles G. D. Roberts


Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many…

35 - The Three Aunts

In Popular Tales from the Norse

Read by Jessica Louise


George Dasent and Sir George Webbe Dasent


The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has be…

The Fox as Herdsman

In A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children

Read by Jessica Romero


Sir George Webbe Dasent


This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Wen…

Chapter 22

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

Read by Jessica Hendra


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

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