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Margaret's Debut As A Public Singer.

In Mary Barton

Read by Wendy Belcher


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

A Memory

In The Great Small Cat and Others

Read by Wendy Almeida


May E. Southworth


A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these tales have very sad endings. (Summary by MaryAnn)

To Charles Dickens

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang


With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

Chapter 2- Servant

In Work: A Story of Experience

Read by Wendy Belcher


Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

Book 1 (The Shimerdas), Chapter 12

In My Ántonia

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Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…

Hat Tricks

In Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Read by Wendy Almeida


Professor Louis Hoffman


This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…

Chapter 6

In A Dark Night's Work

Read by Wendy Almeida


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

Chapter 50: FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE

In The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

Read by Wendy Hall


Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

THE FIR-TREE

In The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Version 2)

Read by Wendy Hall


Asa Don Dickinson and Variousandasa Don Dickinson


This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won …

20 - The Wedding Dress

In Mary Marston

Read by Wendy Almeida


George MacDonald


Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet

In International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds and Alphonse Daudet


The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

07 - Of Bashfulness

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

Read by Wendy Almeida


Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Chapter 21, part 01

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

Read by Wendy Almeida


David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

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