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Last Essays of Elia

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 29 | Listen: 2

Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb’s conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life looking after her; had collaborated with her, in fact, on their Tales From Shakespeare. This world was made by God, he once remarked, but He has left it for humanity to bustle about in. These are Lamb’s reflections on said bustlings. He once said of his close friend Coleridge that the man was hungry for eternity; but Lamb was hungry for humanity. He satisfies this hunger admirably in these Last Essays. – Summary by Tony Addison [chương_files]

Lion Ben of Elm Island

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 2

An adventure story for boys, in which the author aims to “impart pleasure, and, at the same time, inspire respect for labor, integrity and every noble sentiment”. There is a sense of nostalgia, as Kellogg sets his story in bygone days, when the grandfathers of his readers were mere boys, facing the challenges and perils of frontier life and developing the character needed to transform the wilderness in to the land of freedom and plenty. – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]

Dreamer of Dreams

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Action & Adventure, Literary Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 3

Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appeared to him in a dream. When he awoke, he had forgotten the form of the features. Obsessed with recapturing this vision, he goes on a quest to find the woman because he cannot paint another stroke until he sees those eyes again. During his journey, he discovers much more, perhaps even the true meaning of his dream and of his life. – Summary by Amy Gramour [chương_files]

Dark Frigate

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 3

The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and sailing toward the Caribbean where they hope to plunder Spanish towns and galleons. Mistaking an English man-of-war for a merchantman, they are captured and brought back to England for trial. Only one, an English lad, Philip Marsham, a member of the original crew of the Rose, is acquitted; and he, after adventures in the forces of King Charles, tires of Cromwell’s England and sails for Barbados once more on the Rose of Devon. The Dark Frigate has long been a favorite story for boys and in 1924 was awarded the John Newbery Medal, given annually “for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.” When The Dark Frigate was first published F. F. Van deWater in The New York Tribune said: “No one, we think, has written so perfect a pirate tale since Treasure Island.” (from the dustjacket of the first edition) [chương_files]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 01. January 1896

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Essays & Short Works, Travel & Geography
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 4

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the following articles: * Russia in Europe, an annual address by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard * The Arctic Cruise of the U.S. Revenue Cutter “Bear”, by Sheldon Jackson * The Scope and Value of Arctic Explorations, by Gen. A. W. Greely along with an obituary, geographic literature, executive reports, and North American notes. [chương_files]

Strange Story Book (version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Historical, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Chapter: 34 | Listen: 1

This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang “Color” Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stories and he had edited them before his demise. It is a collection of stories that are a bit different than the Fairy Books: still colorful and well written but telling tales about decidedly odd topics. A word of Caution: please read the stories before your children do, some of them contain some violent imagery. – Summary by Linda Andrus [chương_files]

Cruise of the Dazzler

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 2

Young Joe Bronson, caught between poor grades and his father’s threats of military school, runs away from home. He joins the crew of a sloop named the Dazzler, but quickly figures out his captain, Pete Le Maire (nicknamed “French Pete”) frequently engages himself and those at his command in criminal activity. Will Joe be able to escape this unwanted and dangerous new life at sea? Published in 1902, Jack London sold this book (his first full-length novel) as a boy’s adventure novel set in San Francisco, his hometown. In his autobiography, London recalls lifting several more elements in this novel from his adolescence, as in youth he bought a sloop called the Razzle Dazzle from a oyster pirate nicknamed “French Frank.” – Summary by Mary Kay [chương_files]

Figures of Several Centuries

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Essays & Short Works, Modern (19th C)
Chapter: 34 | Listen: 5

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by Josh Kirsh. [chương_files]

Ned, Bob and Jerry at Boxwood Hall

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 3

The seventeenth book in the popular “Motor Boys” series sees our heroes as college freshman. Written under the house pseudonym of Clarence Young. – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]

Queen Zixi of Ix

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 2

Fairy Queen Lulea and her merry band, in a quest to relieve themselves of boredom, decide to create a new magical amusement. They weave a beautiful magic cloak that grants its wearer a single wish. The Queen tells a fellow fairy to give the cloak to the most unhappy mortal she happens to meet. She hands it over to the sister of Noland’s new king, recently coronated and still trying to figure out how to rule. The witch-queen of Ix, taking notice of the cloak and Noland’s power struggles, hatches a plan steal the cloak and become even more powerful (possibly taking over Noland in the process)! Will the new royals withstand her attempts? Published in 1909, this novel, though not an official part of the Oz canon, takes place in Ix and Noland, Oz’s bordering countries. Baum also considered it to be his best work. It was also adapted into a now-fragmented silent film in 1914. – Summary by Mary Kay [chương_files]