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08 - The Room and Billy

In Miss Billy

Read by Kathy Sullivan

Eleanor H. Porter

Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, …

Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)

Read by Shannon Sullivan

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …

The Crown Conspiracy

Read by Michael J. Sullivan

Michael J. Sullivan

They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly. There's no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, jus…

Butter, Cheese, Coffee, Tea, &c.;

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Read by Kathy

Elizabeth E. Lea

The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

Chapter 20

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

Read by Kathy

C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

1-05 Part First - Chapter 5

In Jude the Obscure

Read by Kathy

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

Governor Hunt, Human and Just

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

Read by Kathy

Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…

Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Kathy

Grenville Kleiser

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

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In The Devil's Dictionary

Read by Kathy

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Meleager and Atalanta

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Kathy

Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…