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A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Monet Water lilies 1917-1919

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Flowers on the windowsill by Carl Larsson

A Child’s Garden of Verses

The Child Alone

Carl Larsson, Lisbeth Fishing

Garden Days

Envoys

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Edgar Allen Poe, selected short works

illustration to The Purloined Letter by E.A. Poe, illustrator unknown, public domain image

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The Tell Tale Heart

The Purloined Letter

The Fall of the House of Usher, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, public domain

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Pit and the Pendulum

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Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Girl Arranging her Hair, Mary Cassatt

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01. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised

02. Matthew Cuthbert is Surprised

03. Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised

04. Morning at Green Gables

05. Anne’s History

06. Marilla Makes Up Her Mind

07. Anne Says Her Prayers

08. Anne’s Bringing-Up Is Begun

09. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Properly Horrified

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10. Anne’s Apology

11. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday School

12. A Solemn Vow and Promise

13. The Delights of Anticipation

14. Anne’s Confession

15. A Tempest in the School Teapot

Tea, Mary Cassatt

16. Diana is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results

17. A New Interest in Life

18. Anne to the Rescue

19. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession

20. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong

21. A New Departure in Flavorings

22. Anne is Invited Out to Tea

Mary Cassatt, The Cup of Tea

23. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor

24. Miss Stacy and her Pupils Get Up a Concert

25. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves

26. The Story Club is Formed

27. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit

28. An Unfortunate Lily Maid

Midnight by Anders Zorn

29. An Epoch in Anne’s Life

30. The Queen’s Class is Organized

31. Where the Brook and River Meet

32. The Pass List is Out

33. The Hotel Concert

Young Woman with Auburn Hair in a Pink Blouse, Mary Cassatt

34. A Queen’s Girl

35. The Winter at Queen’s

36. The Glory and the Dream

37. The Reaper Whose Name is Death

38. The Bend in the Road

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The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne

Summary: Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his dreams. Shipwrecked on a large, uninhabited island, Ralph and his fellow survivors, Jim and Peterkin, discover a world of hostile natives and villainous pirates. Danger, high adventure, and wonders of the sea greet them at every turn. When all seems lost, they find help from an unexpected source. (Summary by Tom Weiss for Librivox)

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Running time: 10 hours, 37 minutes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

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Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

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Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

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Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Coral island 7, photo by Molly Evert

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Battle of Antietam

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Chapter 01

Chapter 02

Chapter 03

Chapter 04

Chapter 05

Chapter 06

A slave auction house on Whitehall Street, Sherman Atlanta in fall 1864, before it was burned by Sherman's army

Chapter 07

Chapter 08

Chapter 09
Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Battle of Chicamauga

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Battle of Wilson's Creek

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

The Storming of Fort Wagner, lithograph by Kurz and Allison, 1890

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Just so Camel 3

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Just so whale

How the Whale Got His Throat

Just so Camel

How The Camel Got His Hump

How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Just so rhino

How the Leopard Got His Spots

The Elephant’s Child

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo


The Beginning of the Armadillos

How the First Letter was Written

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How The Alphabet Was Made

The Crab that Played with the Sea

The Cat that Walked by Himself

The Butterfly that Stamped

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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

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Total running time: 9 hours, 58 minutes

HB2

00 – Preface & Letter

01 – Hans and Gretel

02 – Holland

03 – The Silver Skates

04 – Hans and Gretel Find a Friend

05 – Shadows in the Home

06 – Sunbeams

07 – Hans Has His Way

08 – Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin

09 – The Festival of Saint Nicholas

10 – What the Boys Saw & Did in Amsterdam

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11 – Big Manias and Little Oddities

12 – On the Way to Haarlem

13 – A Catastrophe

14 – Hans

15 – Homes

16 – Haarlem, The Boys Hear Voices

17 – The Man With Four Heads

18 – Friends in Need

19 – On the Canal

20 – Jacob Poot Changes the Plan

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21 – Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare

22 – The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous

23 – Before The Court

24 – The Beleaguered Cities

25 – Leyden

26 – The Palace in the Wood

27 – The Merchant Prince & the Sister-Princess

28 – Through The Hague

29-30 – A Day of Rest – Homeward Bound

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31 – Boys and Girls

32 – The Crisis

33 – Gretel and Hilda

34 – The Awakening

35 – Bones and Tongues

36 – A New Alarm

37 – The Father’s Return

38 – The Thousand Guilders

39 – Glimpses

HB5

40 – Looking for Work

41 – The Fairy Godmother

42 – The Mysterious Watch

43 – A Discovery

44-The Race

HB6

45 – Joy in the Cottage

HB7

46 – Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs

47 – Broad Sunshine

48 – Conclusion

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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

a little princess, with friend

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

 a little princess, eating

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Chapter 8

Chapter 9

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Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

a little princess, cleaning

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

a little princess, final

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Four Sisters by Norah Neilson Gray

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Total running time: 19 hours

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The Granddaughter writing, 1923, by Max Liebermann

PART 1

ONE:  PLAYING PILGRIMS

TWO:  A MERRY CHRISTMAS

Franz Skarbina, Unter dem Weihnachtsbaum

THREE:   THE LAURENCE BOY

FOUR:   BURDENS

FIVE:   BEING NEIGHBORLY

SIX:   BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL

LW Girl at the Piano by Robinson

SEVEN: AMY’S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION

EIGHT:  JO MEETS APOLLYON

NINE: MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR

TEN: THE P.C. AND P.O.

ELEVEN:  EXPERIMENTS

TWELVE:  CAMP LAURENCE

THIRTEEN: CASTLES IN THE AIR

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FOURTEEN:  SECRETS

FIFTEEN:  A TELEGRAM

SIXTEEN: LETTERS

SEVENTEEN: LITTLE FAITHFUL

EIGHTEEN:  DARK DAYS

NINETEEN: AMY’S WILL

TWENTY: CONFIDENTIAL

TWENTY-ONE:  LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE

TWENTY-TWO:  PLEASANT MEADOWS

TWENTY-THREE:  AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION

PART 2

TWENTY-FOUR:  GOSSIP

TWENTY-FIVE: THE FIRST WEDDING

The Wedding Morning by Bacon

TWENTY-SIX: ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS

TWENTY-SEVEN: LITERARY LESSONS

TWENTY-EIGHT:  DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES

TWENTY-NINE: CALLS

THIRTY:  CONSEQUENCES

THIRTY-ONE:  OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THIRTY-TWO:  TENDER TROUBLES

THIRTY-THREE:  JO’S JOURNAL

THIRTY-FOUR:  FRIEND

THIRTY-FIVE:  HEARTACHE

THIRTY-SIX: BETH’S SECRET

THIRTY-SEVEN:  NEW IMPRESSIONS

THIRTY-EIGHT: ON THE SHELF

THIRTY-NINE:  LAZY LAURENCE

FORTY:  THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

FORTY-ONE: LEARNING TO FORGET

FORTY-TWO: ALL ALONE

FORTY-THREE:  SURPRISES

FORTY-FOUR: MY LORD AND LADY

FORTY-FIVE:  DAISY AND DEMI

FORTY-SIX:  UNDER THE UMBRELLA

FORTY-SEVEN:  HARVEST TIME

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Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, 1940 movie

According to reviewers, the movie stays fairly true to the book, except for one scene added at the end when two con-men cook up a scheme to save Plumfield from foreclosure. It may take a moment for this movie to load.

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Scenes from Pride and Prejudice, a Card of Brock's illustrations, ca 1885, public domain image

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Darcy at Netherfield, Detail of C. E. Brock illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice, ch 18, public domain image

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Detail of C. E. Brock illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice, ch 3, public domain image

Chapter 01

Chapter 02

Chapter 03

Chapter 04

Chapter 05

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Chapter 06

Chapter 07

Chapter 08

Chapter 09

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

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Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Pride and Prejudice, C.E. Brock illustration for the 1895 edition, ch 18, public domain iamge

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Mr. Collins Proposal, "Almost as soon as I enered the house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life", Detail of C. E. Brock illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice, ch 19, public domain image

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Detail of C. E. Brock illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice, ch 31, public domain image

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Lady Catherine de Bourg, Detail of C. E. Brock illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice, ch 37, public domain image

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Detail of C. E. Brock illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice, ch 43, public domain image

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

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Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

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Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit

Shovels, by Tiesse, released into the public domain

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International Coins

1  The Council of Ways and Means

2  Digging for Treasure

3  Being Detectives

4  Good Hunting

5  The Poet and the Editor

6  Noel’s Princess

7  Being Bandits

8  Being Editors

9  The G. B.

10  Lord Tottenham

11  Castilian Amoroso

12  The Nobleness of Oswald

13  The Robber and the Burglar

14  The Divining Rod

15  ‘Lo, the Poor Indian!

16  The End of the Treasure Seeking

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Emily Dickinson, selected poetry

Feather_1, published by author Louise Docker from Sydney Australia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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e-text for Hope….

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The Grass… e-text

The Cemetery Entrance by Caspar David Friedrich, public domain image

e-text for Because I could not stop for Death

I Died for Beauty

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Rain by Ivan Yendogurov, public domain image

Summer Shower

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I’m Nobody

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Morning

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Interesting Story by Laura Muntz Lyall, public domain image

There is no Frigate like a Book

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In a Library

Library e-text

A Word is Dead

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If I can stop one heart from breaking

e-text for If I can stop…

Indian Summer, Vermont by Willard Leroy Metcalf, public domain image

Indian Summer

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Our Share of Night to Bear

Our Share e-text

There’s a Certain Slant of Light

Slant of Light e-text

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The Bet by Anton Chekhov

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The Bet running time: 24 minutes.

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Thoughts for Young Men by J. C. Ryle, read by author Douglas Bond

Summary: Every thoughtful young man must read J. C. Ryle. For those who don’t have the time or would rather listen, Douglas Bond presents this new audio book. As a young man, Ryle was a first-class athlete, rowing on the crew and playing cricket at Oxford, and a diligent student, graduating top of his class. After hearing Ephesians 2 read in church, Ryle was converted to Christ and thereafter earnestly pursued an uncompromising life of faith and ministry. Throughout his long life, Ryle became a leader in the evangelical movement, proclaiming faithfully the biblical and reformed gospel of grace. During his preaching and pastoral ministry, Ryle became a lover of the Puritans and, like his heroes, wrote prolifically (Summary by Douglas Bond).

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Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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Introduction

Chapter 1, part A: Reasons for Exhorting Young Men

Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks to Young Men

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Scandal in Bohemia

01 – A Scandal in Bohemia

02 – The Red-Headed League

The Red Headed League

03 – A Case of Identity

04 – The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Five Orange Pips

05 – The Five Orange Pips

The Man with the Twisted Lip


06 – The Man with the Twisted Lip

07 – The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

08 – The Adventure of the Speckled Band
09 – The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

10 – The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

11 – The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

12 – The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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Rapunzel from Grimm’s Household Tales by Margaret Hung

Rapunzel by Johnny Gruelle,  Project Gutenberg etext 11027

Rapunzel

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The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Raven, Corvus corax by Franco Atirador

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

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Corvus (Latin)

Latin e-text

El Cuervo (Spanish)

Spanish e-text

De Raaf (Dutch)

Dutch e-text

Le Corbeau (French)

French e-text

Der Rabe (German)

German e-text

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Whistling Boy by Duveneck

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Total running time: 35 hours, 22 minutes

Dickens receiving his characters, by William Holbrook Beard

00 – Preface by the Author

01 – I Am Born

02 – I Observe

03 – I Have a Change

04 – I Fall Into Disgrace

05 – I Am Sent Away From Home

Henry Herbert LaThangue, Leaving Home, 1890

06 – I Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance

07 – My First Half at Salem House

08 – My Holidays, Especially One Happy Afternoon

09 – I Have a Memorable Birthday

10 – I Become Neglected, And Am Provided For

11 – I Begin Life On My Own Account, And Don’t Like It

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12 – Liking Life On My Own Account No Better, I Form A Great Resolution

13 – The Sequel of My Resolution

14 – My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind About Me

15 – I Make Another Beginning

16 – I am a new boy in more senses than one

Manet, Boy in Flowers, Jacques Hoschede

17 – Somebody Turns Up

18 – A Retrospect

19 – I Look About Me and Make A Discovery

20 – Steerforth’s Home

21 – Little Em’ly

22 – Some Old Scenes And Some New People

23 – I Corroborate Mr. Dick, And Choose A Profession

24 – My First Dissipation

25 – Good and Bad Angels

26 – I Fall Into Captivity

27 – Tommy Traddles

28 – Mr. Micawber’s Gauntlet

29 – I visit Steerforth at his home, again

30 – A Loss

31 – A Greater Loss

Rental Coaches in Snow by Floris Arntzenius

32 – The Beginning of a Long Journey

33 – Blissful

34 – My Aunt Astonishes Me

35 – Depression

36 – Enthusiasm

37 – A Little Cold Water

38 – A Dissolution of Partnership

39 – Wickfield & Heep

Uriah Heep
40 – The Wanderer

41 – Dora’s Aunts

42 – Mischief

43 – Another Retrospect

44 – Our Housekeeping

45 – Mr. Dick Fulfills My Aunt’s Predictions

46 – Intelligence

47 – Martha

48 – Domestic
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49 – I Am Involved In Mystery

50 – Mr. Peggotty’s Dream Comes True

51 – The Beginning of a Longer Journey

52 – I Assist at an Explosion

53 – Another Retrospect

Mr. and Mrs. Micawber and the Twins by Fred Barnard

54 – Mr. Micawber’s Transactions

55 – Tempest

56 – The New Wound, And The Old

The Emigrants by James Tissot, 1873

57 – The Emigrants

58 – Absence

59 – Return

60 – Agnes

61 – I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents

62 – A Light Shines on my Way

63 – A Visitor

64 – A Last Retrospect

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