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54 - The Squirrel's Story, Lillian M. Gask

In The Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

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William Patten and Variousandwilliam Patten


The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young…

Chapter 20 Mood and Will

In Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

Read by Gertrude Durette


George MacDonald


This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he b…

20 A Man’s Confession

In Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story

Read by Gertrude Durette


Charles Ross Jackson


There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…

Miss Tooker's Wedding Gift by John Kendrick Bangs

In International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

Read by Gertrude Durette


John Kendrick Bangs


The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Gre…

Chapter XI

In Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

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G. A. Henty


Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into …

The Adventure of the Parcel

In Agatha Webb

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Anna Katharine Green


A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? …

Buff: A Collie - Masterless!, Part 2

In Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories

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Albert Payson Terhune


Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories is one of many popular books written by Albert Payson Terhune that have delighted dog lovers for decade…

ON THE ALLEGED OPTIMISM OF DICKENS

In Charles Dickens

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G. K. Chesterton


G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inim…

Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians Part I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Chapter XLIX: Conquest of Italy by the Franks Pt. II

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Chapter 12, part 1

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II

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John Bagnell Bury


J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…