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The Charwoman's Daughter
Read by Michele Fry
James Stephens
A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…
Ponnamal, Her Story
Read by MaryAnn
Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Rosa Bonheur
Read by Susan Morin
François Crastre
A Masterpieces in Colour series book. Very informative with a biography and critique of the artist's work and how well she was beloved. (Sum…
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Mary Hallock Foote
Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short storie…
Mary Rose
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J. M. Barrie
A ghost story and a haunting story of ageless love. Identified by The Guardian as number 10 on its list of the "Forgotten Plays" t…
Missing: Page Thirteen
Read by Bev J Stevens
Anna Katharine Green
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The future…
New Chronicles of Rebecca
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro.
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
The Two Destinies
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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…
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
Gevoel en Verstand
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Jane Austen
Nederlandse vertaling (uit 1922) van "Sense and Sensibility" door Gonne Loman-van Uildriks (1863-1921). Dit is Jane Austen's eers…
A Poor Wise Man
Read by Celine Major
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century Americ…
The Browns at Mt. Hermon
Read by BookAngel7
Pansy
When she mistakenly receives an offer of work addressed only to "Mary Brown," the lonely young heiress Mary Thornton Brown forms a…
That Affair Next Door (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Anna Katharine Green
One evening, New York society doyenne looks out her window and sees a man and woman entering the mansion opposite hers. Ten minutes later, o…
Diana
Read by Bridget Gaige
Susan Warner
Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother…
Mary's Grammar: Interspersed with Stories and Intended for the Use of Children
Read by Jennifer Dallman
Jane Marcet
Mary's teacher has taxed her with the task of learning that most onerous of all parts of the English language: Grammar. Through stories and …
The Republic of the Future
Read by Jennifer Fournier
Anna Bowman Dodd
or Socialism a Reality In the year 2050, Wolfgang travels to the socialist city of New York. He writes enthusiastically to his friend Hanne…
Orientations
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…