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Chapter VIII

In The Children of the New Forest

Read by Sandra

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…

Adventure

In Winesburg, Ohio

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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 35

In Main Street

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Sinclair Lewis

Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

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…

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…

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

The Invisible Enemy, Part 1

In Woman Suffrage and Politics

Read by Gracie Lynn

Carrie Chapman Catt

Written after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and published in 1923, "This book's essential contribution must be sought in its …

Chapter 01

In Something New

Read by Debra Lynn

P.G. Wodehouse and P. G. Wodehouse

When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willi…

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