Through Russian Snows by G. A. Henty

There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we have in the narratives of Sir Robert Wilson, British commissioner with the Russian army, and of Count Segur, who was upon Napoleon’s staff, minute descriptions of the events as seen by eye-witnesses, and besides these the campaign has been treated fully by various military writers. I have as usual avoided going into details of horrors and of acts of cruelty and ferocity on both sides, surpassing anything in modern warfare, and have given a mere outline of the operations, with a full account of the stern fight at Smolensk and the terrible struggle at Borodino. I would warn those of my readers who may turn to any of the military works for a further history of the campaign, that the spelling of Russian places and names varies so greatly in the accounts of different writers, that sometimes it is difficult to believe that the same person or town is meant, and even in the narratives by Sir Robert Wilson, and by Lord Cathcart, our ambassador at St. Petersburg, who was in constant communication with him, scarcely a name will be found similarly spelt. I mention this, as otherwise much confusion might be caused by those who may compare my story with some of these recognized authorities, or follow the incidents of the campaign upon maps of Russia. (Introduction by G.A.Henty)

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Preface

Chapter 1: Two Brothers

Chapter 2: Before the Justices

Chapter 3: In a Fresh Scrape

Chapter 4: The Smugglers Cave

Chapter 5: Following a Trail

Chapter 6: A Commission

Chapter 7: A French Prison

Chapter 8: Pistol Practice

Chapter 9: A Duel

Chapter 10: Smolensk

Chapter 11: With the Russian Army

Chapter 12: Borodino

Chapter 13: With the Read Guard

Chapter 14: Nery’s Retreat

Chapter 15: In Comfortable Quarters

Chapter 16: An Unexpected Meeting

The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang?s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang?s ?Coloured? Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.? (summary from wikipedia)

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Total running time:? 11 hours, 24 minutes

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00 ? Dedication and Preface

01 ? The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership

02 ? The Six Swans

03 ? The Dragon of the North

04 ? Story of the Emperor?s New Clothes

05 ? The Golden Crab

06 ? The Iron Stove

07 ? The Dragon and His Grandmother

08 ? The Donkey Cabbage

09 ? The Little Green Frog

10 ? The Seven-Headed Serpent

11 ? The Grateful Beasts

12 ? The Giants and the Herd-boy

13 ? The Invisible Prince

14 ? The Crow

15 ? How Six Men travelled through the Wide World

16 ? The Wizard King

17 ? The Nixy

18 ? The Glass Mountain

19 ? Alphege, or the Green Monkey

20 ? Fairer-Than-A-Fairy

21 ? The Three Brothers

22 ? The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise

23 ? The Glass Axe

24 ? The Dead Wife

25 ? In The Land of Souls

26 ? The White Duck

27 ? The Witch and Her Servants

28 ? The Magic Ring

29 ? The Flower Queen?s Daughter

30 ? The Flying Ship

31 ? The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son

32 ? The Story of King Frost

33 ? The Death of the Sun-hero

34 ? The Witch

35 ? The Hazel-nut Child

36 ? The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus

37 ? Prince Ring

38 ? The Swineherd

39 ? How To Tell A True Princess

40 ? The Blue Mountains

41 ? The Tinder-box

42 ? The Witch in the Stone B

43 ? Thumbelina

44 ? The Nightingale

45 ? Hermod and Hadvor

46 ? The Steadfast Tin-Soldier

47 ? Blockhead Hans

48 ? A Story about a Darning-needle

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

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Total running time: 12 hours, 22 minutes

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00 ? Preface

01 ? The Twelve Dancing Princesses

02 ? The Princess Mayblossom

03 ? Soria Moria Castle

04 ? The Death of Koshchei the Deathless

05 ? The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen

06 ? The Master Thief

07 ? Brother and Sister

08 ? Princess Rosette

09 ? The Enchanted Pig

10 ? The Norka

11 ? The Wonderful Birch

12 ? Jack and the Beanstalk

13 ? The Little Good Mouse

14 ? Graciosa and Percinet

15 ? The Three Princesses of Whiteland

16 ? The Voice of Death

17 ? The Six Sillies

18 ? Kari Woodengown

19 ? Drakestail

20 ? The Ratcatcher

21 ? The True History of Little Goldenhood

22 ? The Golden Branch

23 ? The Three Dwarfs

24 ? Dapplegrim

25 ? The Enchanted Canary

26 ? The Twelve Brothers

27 ? Rapunzel

28 ? The Nettle Spinner

29 ? Farmer Weatherbeard

30 ? Mother Holle

31 ? Minnikin

32 ? Bushy Bride

33 ? Snowdrop

34 ? The Golden Goose

35 ? The Seven Foals

36 ? The Marvellous Musician

37 ? The Story of Sigurd

Mr. President radio theater

Here are some links for the old time radio theater show Mr. President. I believe the intent is for children to listen to the broadcast and then guess which president is being described.

For your reference, I have labeled them.

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

James Monroe

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson, episode 76


Zachary Taylor

Franklin Pierce

Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln, and General John A. McClernand, photo taken shortly after the Civil War’s first battle on northern soil in Antietam, Maryland on October 3, 1862. Pinkerton was the head of Union Intelligence Services at the time. He also, allegedly, foiled an assassination attempt against Lincoln. Pinkertonlater pioneered the American private detective industry when he formed Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency.

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

US Grant Secretary of War Scandal

Ulysses S. Grant

Official White House portrait of President U.S. Grant done by Henry Ulke on March 2, 1875. On the very same day Secretary of War William W. Belknap resigned as Secretary of War under scandal. Grant wrote and signed Belknap's resignation and then went to Ulke's studio. Grants left hand is a threatening clentched fist while his right hand is open or welcoming.

Chester Allen Arthur


Theodore Roosevelt, episode 213

Theodore Roosevelt, episode 72

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G Harding

Additional Episodes:


The Loophole

Advice And Consent

Frontier Fighters

Rene Robert Cavelier de LaSalle

Lewis and Clark

Zebulon Pike

John C Fremont

Kit Carson

Jedediah Strong Smith

Marcus Whitman

John McLoughlin

The Donner Party

The Fall of the Alamo

Stephen W. Kearny

Brigham Young

Joseph Meek

Captain George E Pickett

John Sutter and James W Marshall

Buffalo Bill Cody

Pikes Peak Rush-Colorado Territory

Santa Fe Trail

James B. Wild Bill Hickok

Reverend Thomas Starr King

Cochise and Captain Tom Jeffords

Grenville Dodge and Leland Stanford

Massacre at Taos New Mexico

Custer’s Last Stand at Little Big Horn

Stephen F. Austin

Oregon 54-40

Nevada and the Comstock Lode

John Phillips Hero of Fort Phil Kearny

Oklahoma Land Rush

Oregon and the Pacific Republic

Annie D. Tallent

Ira Burton Perrine

Wells Fargo

Governor Anson P. K. Safford

Arthur A. Denny

Yellowstone Park

Eliza Ann Brooks

General N. A. Miles

Alaska

One of the 28th–A Tale of Waterloo

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Total running time: 10 hours, 3 minutes

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A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleanic battle – Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris for Librivox)

00 – Preface

01 – Unexpected News

02 – A Country Visit

03 – Run down

04 – The Privateer’s Rendezvous

05 – The British Cruisers

06 – Home Again

07 – A Commission

08 – Startling News

09 – Mr. Tallboys’ Visitor

10 – On Detachment

11 – Still-Hunting

12 – The Cave Among the Rocks

13 – More Startling News

14 – The New Housemaid

15 – In Belgium

16 – Found at Last

17 – Quatre Bras

18 – Waterloo

19 – The Rout

My Doggie and I by R. M. Ballantyne

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Total running time: 4 hours, 25 minutes

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Introduction: This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that brings these unlikely friends together and merges their separate paths of life into one common path. The bond is “Dumps”, or “Pompey”, the “doggie”. With many twists, turns, and uncertainties, the ending may surprise the reader. All’s well that ends well in this doggie “tail”. (Introduction by Allyson Hester for Librivox)


01 Ch 1 – Explains Itself

02 Ch 2 – Introduces a New Hero

03 Ch 3 – Treats of an Old Heroine

04 Ch 4- In Which Dumps Finds Another Old Friend

05 Ch 5 – Conspiracy and Villainy, Innocence and Tragedy

06 Ch 6 – Relates a Stirring Innocent.

07 Ch 7 – My Circumstances begin to Brighten.

08 Ch 8 – Little Slidder Resists Temptation Successfully, and I Become Enslaved.

09 Ch 9 – On the Scent, but Puzzled.

10 Ch 10 – A Disappointment, an Accident, and a Perplexing Return.

11 Ch 11 – Relates Generally to the Doings and Sayings of Robin Slidder

12 Ch 12 – Begins with Love, Hope, and Joy, and ends Peculiarly.

13 Ch 13 – A Wonderful Discovery.

14 Ch 14 – The Last.

The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

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Total running time: 9 hours, 41 minutes

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00 – Preface

01 – The Story of the Hero Makoma

02 – The Magic Mirror

03 – Story of the King Who Would See Paradise

04 – How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu

05 – Ian, the Soldier’s Son

06 – The Fox and the Wolf

07 – How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon

08 – The Ugly Duckling

09 – The Two Caskets

10 – The Goldsmith’s Fortune

11 – The Enchanted Wreath

12 – The Foolish Weaver

13 – The Clever Cat

14 – Story of Manus, The

15 – Pinkel the Theif

16 – The Adventures of a Jackal

17 – The Adventures of the Jackal’s Eldest Son

18 – The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal

19 – The Three Treasures of the Giants

20 – The Rover of the Plain

21 – The White Doe

22 – The Girl-Fish

23 – The Owl and the Eagle

24 – The Frog and the Lion Fairy

25 – The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired

26 – The Princess Bella-Flor

27 – The Bird of Truth

28 – The Mink and the Wolf

29 – Adventures of an Indian Brave

30 – How the Stalos Were Tricked

31 – Andras Baive

32 – The White Slipper

33 – The Magic Book

You are There: United States History

October 12, 1492:? Columbus Discovers America

September 6, 1620:? The Sailing of the Mayflower

November 7, 1637:? Ann Hutchinson’s Trial

September 1, 1664:? The Surrender of New Amsterdam

June 29, 1692:? The Witchcraft Trials at Salem

August 4, 1735:?? The Trial John Peter Zenger

November 1, 1765:?? The Stamp Act Revolt at Williamsburg

April 19, 1775:? Lexington and Concord

July 4, 1776:?? The Declaration of Independence

January 8, 1781:? Mutiny in the Colonial Army

June 25, 1788:? Virginia Ratifies the U.S. Constitution

February 17, 1801:? The Election of Thomas Jefferson

July 11, 1804:? The Burr/ Hamilton Duel

March 1, 1805: The Trial of Samuel Chase

September 1, 1807:?? The Trial of Burr

September 26, 1820: Colonel Johnson eats the Love Apple

August 28, 1830: Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive

March 6, 1836: Defense of The Alamo

September 7, 1853: You are There Women’s Rights Convention

April 12, 1861:?? The Bombardment of Fort Sumter

July 21, 1861:?? The First Battle of Bull Run

March 9, 1862:? The Monitor and The Merrimac

July 3, 1863:? The Battle of Gettysburg

April 9, 1865:? Lee and Grant at Appomattox

April 14, 1865:? The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

April 26, 1865:? The Capture of John Wilkes Booth

May 16, 1868:?? The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

July 21, 1881:? The Surrender of Sitting Bull

April 22, 1889:? The Oklahoma Land Run

April 6, 1909:? Perry’s Dash to the North Pole

Sampler broadcasts about the 20th Century: The Listening Years To see another post on My Audio School which lists all the topics covered in the broadcast The Listening Years, click here.

On the Irawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War by G. A. Henty

Summary: With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England’s many little wars have been so fatal–in proportion to the number of those engaged–as our first expedition to Burma. It was undertaken without any due comprehension of the difficulties to be encountered, from the effects of climate and the deficiency of transport; the power, and still more the obstinacy and arrogance of the court of Ava were altogether underrated; and it was considered that our possession of her ports would assuredly bring the enemy, who had wantonly forced the struggle upon us, to submission. Events, however, proved the completeness of the error. The Burman policy of carrying off every boat on the river, laying waste the whole country, and driving away the inhabitants and the herds, maintained our army as prisoners in Rangoon through the first wet season; and caused the loss of half the white officers and men first sent there. The subsequent campaign was no less fatal and, although large reinforcements had been sent, fifty percent of the whole died; so that less than two thousand fighting men remained in the ranks, when the expedition arrived within a short distance of Ava. Not until the last Burmese army had been scattered did the court of Ava submit to the by no means onerous terms we imposed.(from the preface)


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Total running time: 8 hours, 47 minutes

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00 – Preface

01 – A New Career

02 – The Outbreak of War

03 – A Prisoner

04 – A Ruined Temple

05 – With Brigands

06 – Among Friends

07 – On The Staff

08 – The Pagoda

09 – Victories

10 – The Advance

11 – Donabew

12 – Harry Carried Off

13 – Preparing a Rescue

14 – In The Temple

15 – The Attack

16 – Rejoining

17 – The Pride Of Burma Humbled

18 – In Business Again

The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales by George MacDonald

Summary: George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adults, and this fantastic fiction influenced later writers such as G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. But you can find some of his best writing in the stories aimed squarely at children, and these are three of the finest.

The Light Princess. A wicked aunt curses her baby niece so that gravity has no effect on her, and she floats through the air as if it were water.The only way to break the curse is to make the princess cry.

The Giant’s Heart. Two children argue and run away to Giantland. There they find out that one of the Giants steals children from the land of men and eats them, but how can they kill the Giant when he has hidden his heart where no one can find it?

The Golden Key. A boy discovers a Golden Key, but cannot find the lock. He meets a girl, and together they search for the land from where the shadows fall, hoping that the key will allow them in.

(Summary by Clive Catterall for Librivox)

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Total running time:? 3 hours, 31 minutes

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1–The Light Princess, part 1

2–The Light Princess, part 2

3–The Light Princess, part 3

4–The Light Princess, part 4

5–The Giant’s Heart, part 1

6–The Giant’s Heart, part 2

7–The Golden Key

8–The Golden Key


You are There: World History

Pompeii: The Last Day, computer generated image.  This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder allows anyone to use it for any purpose.Media from the Discovery Channel's Pompeii: The Last Day, courtesy of Crew Creative, Ltd.

1200 BC – Fall of Troy

480 BC – Thermopolae

399 BC – Death of Socrates

September 30, 331 BC? Rise of Alexander the Great: Peace Offer

October 1, 331 BC – Rise of Alexander the Great: Battle for Asia

September, 326 BC – Rise of Alexander the Great: Mutiny in India

Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background, image published by S?ren Bleikertz under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or later

August 26, 79 BC – The Last Day of Pompeii

December 5, 63 BC – The Conspiracy of Catiline

44 BC – The Assassination of Julius Caesar

December 25, 800 – Charlemagne

October 14, 1066 – The Battle of Hastings

June 15, 1215 – The Signing of the Magna Charta

Joan of Arc  by Sir John Everett Millais, public domain image

May 30, 1431 – Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake

April 7, 1498 – The Ordeal of Savonarola

June 15, 1520 – The Death of Montezuma

October 3, 1574 – The Siege of Leiden, Holland

February 8, 1587 – Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Execution of Mary, public domain image

August 8, 1588 – Drake Defeats Spanish Armada

January, 1649 – The Trial and Sentencing of Charles I

September 5, 1670 – Trial of William Penn

May 23, 1701 – The Hanging of Captain Kidd

June 22, 1757 – The Battle of Plassey

July 14, 1789 – The Storming of the Bastille

Marie Antoinette Being Taken to her Execution, painting by William Hamilton, public domain image

October 16, 1793 – The Trial of Marie Antoinette

May 6, 1802 – Toussaint Louverture Liberates Haiti

March 7, 1815 – Napoleon Returns from Elba

July 31, 1815 – Napoleon Recaptured and Exiled

October 25, 1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade

June 19, 1867 – The Execution of Maximillian

September 8, 1899 – The Dreyfus Case

Henry Ford’s Own Story

Ford, 1896 Ford Quadricycle, Ford's first car, image released to public domain by its author Neiltopaz

Summary:  Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” series of popular children’s books. In this biography of Henry Ford, Ms. Lane worked directly with Ford to tell his story from his birth to his founding of the Ford Motor Company and his use of modern assembly lines to mass produce his cars. (Summary by Lee Ann Howlett.)

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Total running time:  4 hours and 27 minutes

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Ford, Henry Ford, standing, and Barney Oldfield in 1902 with the 999 racing automobile

00 – Foreword

01 – One Summer’s Day

02 – Mending a Watch

03 – The First Job

04 – An Exacting Routine

05 – Getting The Machine Idea

06 – Back To The Farm

07 – The Road To Hymen

08 – Making A Farm Efficient

09 – The Lure Of The Machine Shops

Ford, Model T Ford, 1913, being used for fishing, public domain image

10 – “Why Not Use Gasoline?”

11 – Back To Detroit

12 – Learning About Electricity

13 – Eight Hours, But Not For Himself

Ford Mr. and Mrs. Ford in his first car, which he sold but afterwards bought back; it became his most prized possession.  Notice the old fashioned bicycle wheels and the bell on the dash, public domain image

14 – Struggling With The First Car

15 – A Ride In The Rain

16 – Enter Cofffee

17 – Another Eight Years

Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs and Henry Ford, standing portrait, at Edison's home in Ft. Myers, FL, March 16, 1914, public domain image from U.S. Library of Congress

18 – Winning A Race

19 – Raising Capital

20 – Clinging To A Principle

Ford assembly line, 1913, public domain image

21 – Early Manufacturing Trials

22 – Automobiles For The Masses

23 – Fighting The Seldon Patent

24 – “The Greatest Good To The Greatest Number”

25 – Five Dollars A Day Minimum

26 – Making It Pay

Ford, 1910 Model T Ford, commercial photo for advertisement by Harry Shipler, public domain image

27 – The Importance Of A Job

28 – A Great Educational Institution

29 – The European War

30 – The Best Preparedness

The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald, 1883, public domain image

Summary: The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. It’s been a year since the Princess Irene and Curdie first met, and a year since the goblin incident and all appears to be going well in the Kingdom. Or is it? After a visit from Irene’s great-great-grandmother, Curdie finds himself on a mission to save the kingdom, with a rather strange companion in tow.  (Summary by Lizzie Driver for Librivox)

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Total Running Time: 6 hours

This book is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin.

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Alexanderschlacht by Albrecht Altdorfer, public domain image

01 – Chapter 1: The Mountain

02 – Chapter 2: The White Pigeon

03 – Chapter 3: The Mistress of the Silver Moon

04 – Chapters 4-5: Curdie’s Father and Mother and The Miners

Miners in the Sierras by Charles Christian Nahl and Frederick August Wenderoth, photograph by Ad Meskens, public domain

05 – Chapters 6-7: The Emerald and What is In a Name?

06 – Chapter 8: Curdie’s Mission

07 – Chapters 9-10: Hands and The Heath

08 – Chapters 11-12: Lina and More Creatures

09 – Chapters 13-14: The Baker’s Wife and The Dogs of Gwyntystorm

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10 – Chapters 15-16: Derba and Barbara AND The Mattock

11 – Chapters 17-18: The Wine Cellar AND The King’s Kitchen

Royal Kitchen at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England from John Nash's Views of the Royal Pavilion, 1826, public domain

12 – Chapter 19: The King’s Chamber

13 – Chapters 20-21: Counterplotting AND The Loaf

14 – Chapters 22-23: The Lord Chamberlain AND Dr. Kellman

15 – Chapters 24-25: The Prophecy AND The Avengers

16 – Chapters 26-27: The Vengeance AND More Vengeance

17 – Chapters 28-30: The Preacher AND Barbara AND Peter

18 – Chapters 31-32: The Sacrifice AND The King’s Army

19 – Chapters 33-35: The Battle AND Judgment AND The End

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt at the Tuskegee Institute, 10-24-1905, public domain image

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Booker T. Washington holds a Carnegie Hall audience spellbound, 1906.  Mark Twain is seated directly behind Mr. Washington, New York Times photograph, public domain image

# 00 – Preface/Introduction

# 01 – A Slave Among Slaves

# 02 – Boyhood Days

# 03 – The Struggle For An Education

# 04 – Helping Others

# 05 – The Reconstruction Period

# 06 – Black Race And Red Race

# 07 – Early Days At Tuskegee

# 08 – Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House

# 09 – Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights

# 10 – A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw

# 11 – Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them

# 12 – Raising Money

# 13 – Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech

# 14 – The Atlanta Exposition Address

# 15 – The Secret Of Success In Public Speaking

# 16 – Europe

# 17 – Last Words

The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale

Coffee Drinker by Ivana Kobilca, public domain image

Summary: The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy — but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and is eventually rescued by “the wise old lady from Philadelphia” who always cuts the Gordian knot with some effective but prosaic solution. The charm of the story is not in the plot, but in the telling, with the building up of layers of complication, and the affectionate fun poked at the not-quite-cartoonish characters. The “wise old lady’s” solution is usually obvious to the reader, or even the young listener, from the start. (From Wikipedia)

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Total running time:  4 hours, 24 minutes

Piano Lesson by Mihály Munkácsy, published by the Bekescsaba Mihaly Munkacsy Museum under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 and under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license

Chapter 00-01 – Preface/The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee

Chapter 02-03-04 – About Elizabeth Eliza’s Piano/The Peterkins Try to Become Wise/Mrs.
Peterkin Wishes To Go To Drive

The Blue House in Zandaam by Claude Monet, public domain image

Chapter 05-06 – The Peterkins at Home/Why the Peterkins Had a Late Dinner

Chapter 07-08 – The Peterkin’s Summer Journey/The Peterkins Snowed Up

Chapter 09-10 – The Peterkins Decide to Keep a Cow / The Peterkins’ Christmas-Tree

Under the Chestnut Tree by Carl Larsson, public domain image

Chapter 11-12 – The Peterkins’ Tea Party / The Peterkins Too Late For the Exhibition

Chapter 13-14 13 The Peterkins Celebrate the “Fourth” / The Peterkins’ Picnic

Chapter 15-16 The Peterkins’ Charades / The Peterkins are Obliged to Move

Chapter 17-18 The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages / Modern

Improvements at the Peterkins

Children's Breakfast by Albert Anker, public domain image

Chapter 19-20 Agamemnon’s Career / The Educational Breakfast

Chapter 21 – The Peterkins at the Carnival of Authors in Boston

Chapter 22 – The Peterkins at the Farm

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Walden Pond in the Spring, photo released by its author Shadow0704 to public domain

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Total running time:  15 hours

Walden, Site of Thoreau's cabin, marked by a pile of rocks, public domain image

Chapter 1 part 1

Chapter 1 part 2

Chapter 1 part 3

Chapter 1 part 4

Chapter 1 part 5

Chapter 2 part 1

Chapter 2 part 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden, in June 1856, aged 39, public domain image

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Historical Tales Volume II, American II by Charles Morris

Image of the Sunken Road--Bloody Lane--Antietam Naitonal Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA, public domain image

Summary Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplements the first with additional stories of the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the United States of America, describing history for children and young adults in an exciting and novel manner.
(Summary by Kalynda for Librivox)

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Total running time:  8 hours, 23 minutes

Captain John Smith landing in Jamestown, public domain image

01 – Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth

02 – De Soto and the Father of the Waters

03 – The Lost Colony of Roanoke

04 – The Thrilling Adventures of Captain John

05 – The Indian Massacre in Virginia

06 – The Great Rebellion in the Old Dominion

Painting by Theodore Gudin titled La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684. The ship on the left is La Belle, in the middle is Le Joly, and L'Aimable, which has run aground, is to the right.

07 – La Salle the Explorer of the Mississippi

08 – The French of Louisiana and the Natchez Indians

09 – The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

10 – How Oglethorpe Saved Georgia from Spain

11 – A Boy’s Working Holiday in the Wildwood

12 – Patrick Henry, the Herald of the Revolution

Patrick Henry by George Bagby Matthew, public domain image

13 – Governor Tryon and the Carolina Regulators

14 – Lord Dunmore and the Gunpowder

15 – The Fatal Expedition of Colonel Rogers

16 – How Colonel Clark Won the Northwest

17 – King’s Mountain and the Patriots of Tennessee

18 – General Greene’s Famous Retreat

First Cotton Gin, image from Harpers Weekly, published in 1869 depicting an event that happened some 70 years earlier, public domain image

19 – Eli Whitney, the Inventor of the Cotton Gin

20 – How Old Hickory Fought the Creeks

21 – The Pirates of Barataria Bay

22 – The Heroes of the Alamo

The Alamo,This is a drawing of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, first printed in 1854 in Gleason's Pictorial Drwing Room Companion, then reprinted in 2005 in Frank Thompson's The Alamo p. 106, public domain image

23 – How Houston Won Freedom for

24 – Captain Robert E. Lee and the Lava-Beds

25 – A Christmas Day on the Plantation

26 – Captain Gordon and the Raccoon Roughs

27 – Stuart’s Famous Chambersburg

28 – Forrest’s Chase of the Raiders

29 – Exploits of a Blockade-Runner

Siege of Vicksburg by Kurz and Allison, art publishers, Chicago, public domain image

30 – Fontain, the Scout, and the Besiegers of Vicksburg

31 – Gordon and the Bayonet Chart at Antietam

32 – The Last Triumph of Stonewall Jackson

33 – John Morgan’s Famous Raid

34 – Home-Coming of General Lee and His Veterans