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Chapter 5

In Bunner Sisters

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Edith Wharton


“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…

Bourgonef, part 1

In The Lock and Key Library

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Julian Hawthorne, ed


A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, collected and edited by Julian Hawthorne.Note: the second chapter of Dickens’ The Hau…

The Lady Cornelia, Part 1

In The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Walter K. Kelly, Translator) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …

Mary Carpenter

In Some Eminent Women of our Times

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Millicent Garrett Fawcett


Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical s…

Chapter VII

In Ramona

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and ge…

14 - Chapter 13 part 1 - Concerts and theatres, Mr. and Mrs. Jared Sparks, The …

In Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Moncure D. Conway and Moncure Daniel Conway


Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly t…

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