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Curiosities of Street Literature
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Various
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peac…
Read by Pamela Nagami
Osmund Airy
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
Being a Boy
Read by Mark Penfold
Charles Dudley Warner
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)
Oscar Wilde: A Study
Read by David Wales
André Gide
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnot…
Palmetto Leaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they…
Walpole
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Morley
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biograph…
The Soul of an Immigrant
Read by Sue Anderson
Constantine Panunzio
Constantine Panunzio (1884-1964) begins his autobiography by describing his childhood in Molfetta, Italy. At age 13, he left home as a sailo…
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III
Read by John Greenman
Albert Bigelow Paine
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…
Read by Steve Gough
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879
Read by Paul Fleischman
John Muir
When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown hi…
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
Read by Carol Fullerton-Samsel
Beth Ellis
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visi…
From Alien To Citizen
Read by Michele Fry
Edward A. Steiner
Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversi…
The Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy
Read by Roger Melin
Jesse Pomeroy
Jesse Harding Pomeroy was only 12 years old when he was arrested for the assault of 7 boys near his home in the South Boston area of Massach…
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire
Read by Pamela Nagami
Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…
Autobiography of Phineas Pett
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Phineas Pett
Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept…
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies
Read by Jim Locke
Sydney Fisher
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involveme…
The Age of Elizabeth
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mandell Creighton
This short history by the eminent British historian, Mandell Creighton, places Elizabeth and her reign within the context of 16th century Eu…
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
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