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Arthur Mervyn

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Charles Brockden Brown


Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…

Java Head

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Joseph Hergesheimer


Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…

Merton of the Movies

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Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

Atlantis

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Gerhart Hauptmann


Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…

Effi Briest (abridged)

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Theodor Fontane


Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

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Walt Whitman


This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

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William Alexander Gerhardi


From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …

Come Out of the Kitchen!

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Alice Duer Miller


A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

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Robert Henry Newell


These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

The Confederacy of Heaven

Read by Margaret R. Taylor


Margaret R. Taylor


Nasan Rattlingbones was supposed to die. That’s what exile means in a post-apocalyptic Canada that hasn’t seen rain in almost two hundred y…

Grizelda

Read by Margaret R. Taylor


Margaret R. Taylor


In the Republic of Corvain, anybody who has a hint of magical power is rounded up and thrown into prison. They’re doing it to defend the ne…

Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803

In American Leaders and Heroes

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Wilbur F. Gordy


Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, includin…

What Thad Found Out

In The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island

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St. George Henry Rathborne


The Silver Fox Patrol is out on Lake Superior for another great trip! Dr. Hobbs has been called away, yet again, on an emergency. That lea…

Noblesse Oblige; The Sun at Midnight

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 22, March 30, 1880

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Various


Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, po…

Useful Snakes

In Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts

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David Alec Wilson


Although David Alec Wilson is best known for his writings about Thomas Carlyle, he was a Scottish civil servant who spent much time in India…

The New Scout

In Pee-Wee Harris: Fixer

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Percy Keese Fitzhugh


Pee-Wee Harris, Boy Scout of America and Boy of Superior Appetite returns for another adventure -- just normal events in the life of a boy. …

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