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Superstition of Divorce

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Essays & Short Works, Family & Relationships
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 5

This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before the first Christian denomination in the world allowed its members to divorce. Till then Christendom was unanimous in standing against it. Chesterton saw clearly the trends of this time, and delivered this defense. (Summary by Ray Clare) [chương_files]

Selected Essays

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Essays & Short Works, Philosophy, Political Science
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 11

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, “the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.” Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Clarence Darrow. After the hanging of the Haymarket protesters in 1887, she became an anarchist. “Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law of trial by jury,” she wrote in an autobiographical essay, “After that I never could.” She was known as an excellent speaker and writer – in the opinion of biographer Paul Avrich, she was “a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist” – and as a tireless advocate for the anarchist cause, whose “religious zeal,” according to Goldman, “stamped everything she did.” (Wikipedia) [chương_files]

New Swiss Family Robinson

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Action & Adventure, Humorous Fiction
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 6

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales) [chương_files]

Ozma of Oz (version 3)

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 5

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum’s Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Road to Oz (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 4

Dorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is quite shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange road. Along the way they meet Button Bright, a little boy who is not really very bright at all, The Rainbow’s Daughter, the Fox King and many other curious creatures including the deadly Scoodlers who want to make soup of them and the Musicker who can’t stop making music. But the adventurers make their way to the Deadly Desert and cross it in a novel way to reach the Land of Oz. Santa Clause is a surprise guest at Ozma’s Birthday Party along with many Queens, kings and and a wonderful time is had by all. Including Toto! [description by Phil Chenevert] [chương_files]

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp

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Action & Adventure, School
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 6

A school girl story about two Illinois teens and the adventures they have with family,friends and the chance to go to a boarding school in Michigan in the early 1920’s. (Summary by Linda Andrus) [chương_files]

Tom Swift and his Airship

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Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 5

In Tom Swift and His Airship, Tom Swift has finished his latest invention- the Red Cloud, a fast and innovative airship. Tom is anxious for a cross-country trial, but just before he and his friends take off, the Shopton bank is robbed. No sooner is Tom in the air than he is blamed for the robbery. Suddenly, he’s a wanted fugitive but doesn’t know why until he’s half-way across the country. With no safe harbor or friend on the land below, Tom must race back to Shopton to clear his name before he’s shot out of the sky. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Five Children and It (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 6

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children’s wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara) [chương_files]

Outdoor Girls of Deepdale

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 6

The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale was the first book in a long-running series centering around four girls: Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Amy Stonington, and Grace Ford. The girls go on many exciting adventures and solve mysteries. In this book the girls go on a long walking tour and in the process find a hundred dollar bill. Who owns the money and why is such a mysterious note attached? (Introduction by Elizabeth Wilcox) [chương_files]

Gulliver’s Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

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Action & Adventure, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 5

This is a children’s version of Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The children’s adventure story covers Gulliver’s visits to the lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) [chương_files]