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In Winesburg, Ohio

Read by Sandra


Sherwood Anderson


Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …

Chapter IX

In The Children of the New Forest

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Frederick Marryat


The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…

JOHNNY CHUCK JOINS THE CLASS -- The Woodchuck and his ways.

In The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

Part 3 Ch. 9 We Depart in a Hurry

In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting


Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in fa…

Round the Fire

In Little Men

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Louisa May Alcott


Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (18…

Le Rat qui s’est retiré du monde

In Fables de La Fontaine, livre 07 (ver 2)

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Jean de la Fontaine


Voici le septième des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et sont lues par des lecteurs d…

A Century of Rites : The Making of an Avant - Garde Tradition

In Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference

Read by Lynn Garafola


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Book 2, Chapter 7

In Hard Times

Read by Debra Lynn


Charles Dickens


Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

The Old Lady's Story, from Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire

In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3

Read by Pamela Lynn


Charles Dickens


2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible o…

A Narrow Escape

In Tom Swift and His Motorcycle

Read by Gracie Lynn


Victor Appleton


This is the very first Tom Swift adventure. Tom Swift has a newly purchased motorcycle, which he is modifying with his own inventions. He vo…

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