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The Early Adventures of Don Everhard

Read by Ben Tucker


Gordon Young


Before Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and before Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, there was Don Everhard, hard-boiled professional gamb…

Jazz

Read by Ben Tucker


R. P. Jones


Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…

An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters

Read by Ben Tucker


Charles James Fox


Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

A German Deserter's War Experience

Read by Lee Smalley


Anonymoustranslated Byjulius Koettgen


The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

The Angel of Terror

Read by Lee Elliott


Edgar Wallace


When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …

The Golden Dream

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

Doctor Izard

Read by Lee Smalley


Anna Katharine Green


The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

The Permanent Husband

Read by Lee Smalley


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

The Bishop's Apron

Read by Lee Smalley


W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

The de Bercy Affair

Read by Lee Smalley


Louis Tracy


A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…

Diary of a Suicide

Read by Lee Smalley


Wallace E. Baker


“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about …

100%: The Story of a Patriot

Read by Lee Smalley


Upton Sinclair


"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Read by Lee Elliott


Nat Love


Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

The Compleat Angler

Read by Nicole Lee


Izaak Walton


The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…

Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia

Read by Nicole Lee


Thomas Browne


Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…

In the Line of Battle

Read by Lee Smalley


Walter Wood


“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…

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