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Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
North America Vol. 1
Read by Celine Major
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…
Cupid's Darts
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William James Mcglothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Cupid's Darts by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 12, 2012.To celeb…
Entertaining Made Easy (Version 2)
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Emily Rose Burt
A handy book of ideas for parties, weddings, and wedding showers. - Summary by MaybeCordelia
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
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William Graham Sumner
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…
Joseph and his Brethren
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W. K. Tweedie
"The story of Joseph is at once so simple that childhood is arrested and rivetted by it, and so profound that sages may deepen their wi…
Among the Head-hunters of Formosa
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Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…
Lydia is gone this many a year
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Lizette Woodworth Reese
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of 'Lydia is gone this many a year' by Lizette Woodworth Reese. This was the Fortnightly Poetry …
A Parting Guest
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James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.…
A Ruined Reversolet
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C. J. Dennis
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Ruined Reversolet by C. J. Dennis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2012.…
Death-bed Visions
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William Fletcher Barrett
In his book Death-bed Visions, William Barrett was "anxious to prove that even people who have been skeptical all their lives of any su…
Cana
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James Freeman Clarke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Cana by James Freeman Clarke, from The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman. This was …
The City of Din
Read by Amelia Chesley
Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie
A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090
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Various
In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…
The Dread Apache: That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest
Read by Laurie Banza
Merrill Pingree Freeman
Excerpt which contains the opinions and biographical accounts from the author: "A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-…
The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Selections from
Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
Alfred Burdon Ellis
British Army officer and ethnographer AB Ellis was known for his writings on West Africa. His final publication takes an anthropological mag…
Paul Carpenter Paintings 2005-2012
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Paul Carpenter
Paul Carpenter is an artist worth looking at. He has shown at influential galleries on both coasts of America. The book contains fascinating…
At Broad Ripple
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James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of At Broad Ripple by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the fortnightly poetry project for September…
Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Yea…
Read by Carol Pelster
Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet
This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…
Notes on Life and Letters
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…