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Clare Becomes a Guardian of the Poor

In A Rough Shaking

Read by Amelie Dawson


George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

Interesting Applications of Electricity

In The Romance of Modern Electricity

Read by Amelie Dawson


Charles R. Gibson


From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern concepts of electricity. The author discusses how ma…

Going A-Travelling

In Household Tales (Version 2)

Read by Amelie Dawson


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Do you like fairy tales and stories about all sorts of animals and people? Here are a wide variety of stories that go from warm and fuzzy t…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


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The Kinetoscope of Time

In Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

Read by Scott Dawson


Brander Matthews


Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…