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Chapter 2

In Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Mary Godolphin and Daniel Defoe

Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

00 - Dedication and Author's Preface

In Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

The Case for Monogamy

In The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

William F. Bigelow

A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instr…

Section 5, Chapters 19-22

In The Dhammapada

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

F. Max Muller, Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller and Translated Byf. Max Müller

The Dhammapada is is a Buddhist scripture, containing 423 verses in 26 categories. According to tradition, these are verses spoken by the Bu…

The Three Bears

In Denslow's Three Bears

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

W.W. Denslow and W. W. Denslow

This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

In The Story of the Three Little Pigs

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

L. Leslie Booke and L. Leslie Brooke

This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…

Fox and the Grapes, The

In Baby's Own Aesop

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Walter Crane

"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted pa…

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