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Samuel F. B Morse & the Invention of the Telegraph

In Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Read by Scott Bennett

Frank Puterbaugh Bachman

This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Ediso…

The Little Old Woman and Her Pig

In Mother’s Nursery Tales

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Katharine Pyle

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Bigelow by James Russell Lowell

In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

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James Russell Lowell

Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

New Year's Eve, 1844 - A Fragment

In Early Poems

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James Russell Lowell

This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

Niagara Falls, from the Ferry

In American Scenery, Vol. 1

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Nathaniel Parker Willis

Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description…

The Boy and the Dragon

In Canadian Fairy Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan

Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal bot…

The Wooing of Helen of the Fair Hands

In Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities

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Andrew Lang

These are short stories about the life of Ulysses, the stealing of Helen, Paris, battles, Trojan horses, and more! - Summary by Maggie Trave…