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A Text-book of Assaying
Read by Peter Yearsley
Cornelius Beringer, Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer and Cornelius Beringer And John Jacob Beringer
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…
Phallic Worship
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Hargrave Jennings
A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…
The Rookeries of London
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Thomas Beames
Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…
On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp
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William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
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William Chambers
A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village
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Tickner Edwardes
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
Wonderful London
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William James McGlothlin
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…
Man and Maid
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E. Nesbit
A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
Salome and the Head
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E. Nesbit
Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a …
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
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M. R. James
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
Underground London
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John Hollingshead
From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…
A Thin Ghost and Others
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M. R. James
A collection of short stories involving the supernatural. This is the fourth collection of ghost stories published by the author - following…
The Stoneground Ghost Tales
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Edmund Gill Swain
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict
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Thomas Archer
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…
Aus 123
Read by Peter Young
This episode pays tribute to the legendary Al Bowlly, a popular jazz crooner of the 1930s. Born in Mozambique, Bowlly became a prominent fig…
Paydirt
Read by Eric Peterson
David Bolt
Experience the ruthless world of mining stocks in "Paydirt," a compelling play by acclaimed playwright David Bolt. This production…
Inside the Whale
Read by Joseph G. Peterson
Joseph G. Peterson
Inside the Whale is an epic novel that, in the spirit of Beowulf, imagines a bardic drone chanting the mnemonics of rhythm and rhyme to ente…
In a German Pension
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…
Victory
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…
The Shadow-Line
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Joseph Conrad
In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …