Twilight Stories
Various
30 chapters · 3 h 57 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Sonia, Cbteddy, Marian Mangoubi, C. B. Seyfarth, Rebecca Eden Walker and others
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A collection of broad-ranging, mostly American stories and poems for children by various authors, including Margaret Sidney, Susan Coolidge, Joaquin Miller, Henry W. Longfellow, and Mrs. Amy Therese Powelson. Each poem or story is followed by an additional short rhyme, drawn from a variety of sources, but not attributed. Topics include history, war, school, everyday life, Fairyland, and more. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
Chapters
1 Preface 1 min 2 Christmas Day, by Susan Coolidge 2 min 3 The Only Woman in the Town 34 min 4 The Conquest of Fairyland, by A. Mary F. Robinson 9 min 5 Kentucky Belle, by Constance Fenimore Woolson 11 min 6 Prophecies, by Kathrine Lente Stevenson 3 min 7 Why He Was Whipped, by Mrs. Amy Terese Powelson 13 min 8 The Three Fishers, by Charles Kingsley 2 min 9 "Apples Finkey"--The Water Boy, by John Jerome Rooney 5 min 10 The Soldier's Reprieve 12 min 11 Little Brown Thrushes, by Mrs. Whiton-Stone 2 min 12 The Story of the Empty Sleeve, by R. L. Cary, Jr 4 min 13 Facing the World, by Dinah Craik 26 min 14 Robert of Lincoln, by William Cullen Bryant 4 min 15 U.S. Spells US, by Anonymous 2 min 16 "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle," by Lawrence Porter Hext 2 min 17 The Barefoot Boy, by John Greenleaf Whittier 5 min 18 Babouscka 10 min 19 Daisies, by M. E. B 3 min 20 Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood 3 min 21 The Baby's Kiss: An Incident of the Civil War, by Anonymous 3 min 22 The Lost Diamond Snuff Box 15 min 23 The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake 4 min 24 Aunt Polly Shedd's Brigade 21 min 25 Corinne's Musicale, by Margaret Sidney 3 min 26 Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier 4 min 27 Sheridan's Ride, by T. B. Read 4 min 28 The Children's Hour, by Henry W. Longfellow 2 min 29 Caryl's Plum, by Margaret Sidney 24 min 30 Our Two Opinions, by Eugene Field 3 min
