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To Angelo Mai, on his Discovery of the Lost Books of Cicero, 'De Republica'

In The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

Read by Jennifer Woodside


Giacomo Leopardi


This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin

Vol. 1 - Chapter 11

In Helen

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Maria Edgeworth


Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…

Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades

Read by Jennifer Gasiecki


G. A. Henty


Set in the late twelfth century during the Third Crusade, the Norman Conquest having occurred not much more than a hundred years ago, Winnin…

The Girl Next Door

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Augusta Huiell Seaman


Marcia Brett has noticed unusual activity at the ramshackle and seemingly abandoned mansion next door: a mysterious, veiled lady is seen com…

Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl

Read by Jennifer Fournier


Unknown


Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm…

Mary's Grammar: Interspersed with Stories and Intended for the Use of Children

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Jane Marcet


Mary's teacher has taxed her with the task of learning that most onerous of all parts of the English language: Grammar. Through stories and …

Cloud Studies

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Arthur William Clayden


Classification of clouds, and meteorological condition of how they are formed. Written by Arthur W. Clayden, M.A., who was the former princi…

The Republic of the Future

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Anna Bowman Dodd


or Socialism a Reality In the year 2050, Wolfgang travels to the socialist city of New York. He writes enthusiastically to his friend Hanne…

The Prairie Wife

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Arthur Stringer


GeeGee has fallen, in love that is. Witty, funny, intelligent. Gee Gee's Letters to her friend tell the unscripted story of the adventures i…

Book Two, Sections IX-X

In Politics

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Aristotle (tr. Jowett) and Aristotle


The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…