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Reading: An Essay

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Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Walker's Appeal

Read by Jim Locke


David Walker


The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

Rivers to the Sea (Version 2)

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Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale never disappoints. This lovely book of lyrical poems reminds us of the eternal verities of love, loss and life. - Summary by …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098

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Various


"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…

Bransford Of Rainbow Range

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes


A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…

Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man

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Bartimeus


Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. - Summary by david wales

Biographia Literaria

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …

The History of Robinson Crusoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


William James Mcglothlin


A 6-page digest of Defoe's famous work for young readers (Summary by Dennis Sayers)

A Moment of Time

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Richard Hughes


British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…

The Trembling of a Leaf

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W. Somerset Maugham


A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …

Get Next!

Read by Laurie Banza


Hugh Mchugh


John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters,…

The Lost Art of Reading

Read by Joseph Tabler


Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Fortunes of Nigel

Read by Jim Locke


Sir Walter Scott


During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

The Song of the Waters

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William Murray Graydon


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Song of the Waters by William Murray Graydon.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for …

West-Running Brook

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Robert Frost


A collection of 38 of Robert Frost's early poems apparently compiled in 1923 but not published until 1928. This was not Frost's most popular…

Plum Pudding (version 2)

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Christopher Morley


Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…

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…

Phineas Redux (Version 2)

Read by Deon Gines


Anthony Trollope


Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdl…

The Explorer

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W. Somerset Maugham


An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…

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