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The Stolen White Elephant

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Mark Twain


In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local po…

The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

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United States Government and Unit


This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

Doctor Knowall

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

Chapter 12

In Mansfield Park

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Jane Austen


Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie…

Chapter 3

In The Call of the Wild

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Jack London


In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a…

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In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

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In Sonnet 023

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shakespeare and William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project.(Summary by Annie Coleman…

Chapter 27

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

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Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Chapter 21

In Treasure Island

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stevenson_rl and Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age …

Stave 3

In A Christmas Carol

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Charles Dickens


A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficul…

Chapter 14

In Howards End (version 2)

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Edward Morgan Forster and E. M. Forster


The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret,…