Biography & Autobiography
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality
Read by Martin Geeson
Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
England and the Hundred Years' War
Read by Pamela Nagami
Charles William Chadwick Oman
This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English …
Kepler
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Walter W. Bryant
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…
The Story of Geronimo
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Jim Kjelgaard
Geronimo (1829 – 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion in…
Letters on an Elk Hunt
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Elinore Pruitt Stewart
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burnt…
Queen Elizabeth
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Edward Spencer Beesly
A biography of Queen Elizabeth the First, the last monarch of the Tudors. (Summary by Brendan Stallard)
The Underground Railroad, Part 4
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William Still
"The work is intensely interesting. Many of the narratives thrill the reader through and through. Some of them awaken an indignation, a…
Meine Emancipation, Verweisung und Rechtfertigung
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Louise Aston
1845, Louise Aston lebt als geschiedene Frau in Berlin und bewegt sich in intellektuellen Kreisen. Sie raucht in der Öffentlichkeit und…
The Log-Cabin Lady
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'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear throu…
President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation
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Henry Watson Wilbur
A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude towar…
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translate…
Dog-Watches At Sea
Read by Peter Kelleher
Stanton Henry King
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reaso…
The Normans in European History
Read by Pamela Nagami
Charles Homer Haskins
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …
The Backwoods of Canada
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Catharine Parr Traill
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…
Captains of Industry
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James Parton
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised t…
Auguste Comte and Positivism
Read by Bill Boerst
John Stuart Mill
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…
The Life of Captain James Cook
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Arthur Octavius Kitson
“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care ha…
The Underground Railroad, Part 5
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William Still
"I congratulate you that, after much patient research, careful preparation, and untiring labor, you have completed your voluminous work…
In God's Garden
Read by Laura Caldwell
Amy Steedman
"In this book you will not find the stories of all God's saints. I have gathered a few together, just as one gathers a little posy from…