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For a Comforter

In Exercises in Knitting

Read by Kathy Jacobs

Cornelia Mee

Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain prac…

Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev

In Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Read by Kathy Jacobs

Dorothy Scarborough, compiler, Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev and Variousanddorothy Scarborough

An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of moder…

Bk 11: Ch 04-06

In The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Read by Kathy Jacobs

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

Chapter IX, Part 3

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 09)

Read by Kathy Jacobs

Thomas Babington Macaulay

This is chapter 9 of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the accession of James II. This chapter covers part of the invasion…

THE HALL OF THE ATLAS (2900 words)

In The Sleeper Awakes

Read by Kathy Jacobs

H. G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…

Butter, Cheese, Coffee, Tea, &c.;

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Read by Kathy

Elizabeth E. Lea

The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

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In The Sayings of Confucius

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Confucius 孔子

Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

Puss in Boots

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

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William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

1-05 Part First - Chapter 5

In Jude the Obscure

Read by Kathy

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

Governor Hunt, Human and Just

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…