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01 - Part I, The Baby

In Viking Tales

Read by Mary Ballard-Johansson


Jennie Hall


Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine)

02 - THE NEW FACES

In The Dead Alive

Read by Mary Ballard-Johansson


Wilkie Collins


Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body…

II On Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form pt.1

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

Read by Mary Ballard-Johansson


Charles Darwin


A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Read by Mary Schneider


Sigmund Freud


Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria an…

Totem and Taboo

Read by Mary Schneider


Sigmund Freud


Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…

Pollyanna

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyan…

Pollyanna Grows Up

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman se…

The Mysterious Rider

Read by Mary Bard


Zane Grey


This book has all the elements of a classic Western, including rustling and gunfights, but at its heart is the battle between good and evil,…

Jack and Jill

Read by Mary Anderson


Louisa May Alcott


Jack and Jill went up a hillTo coast with fun and laughter.Jack fell down and broke his crown,And Jill came tumbling after.When Jack and Jil…

Just David

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David's father, who is sick dies, and David…

Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology

Read by Mary Schneider


William Healy


This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…

Lost Man's Lane

Read by Mary Bard


Anna Katharine Green


After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…

Michael O'Halloran

Read by Mary Anderson


Gene Stratton-Porter


The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “…

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Read by Mary Reagan


Nellie Bly


This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…

The Sword of Damocles

Read by Mary Bard


Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does ind…

The Wonderful Visit

Read by Mary Bard


H. G. Wells


An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Vict…

The New Life (La vita nuova)

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

What's Mine's Mine

Read by Hannah Mary


George MacDonald


Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The character…