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The History of Mr. Polly

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


H. G. Wells


A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…

Mr. Midshipman Easy

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Frederick Marryat


One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of J…

The Big Bow Mystery

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Israel Zangwill


It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is…

The Blue Lagoon

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H. De Vere Stacpoole


Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most po…

Jimbo

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Algernon Blackwood


Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kid…

A Jewish State

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Theodor Herzl


Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discu…

The Great Gatsby (version 2)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…

Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה)

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Varioustranslated Byhelena Frank


A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, …

Children of the Ghetto

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Israel Zangwill


In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …

Kari the Elephant

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji


The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary…

Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

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שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem


Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about…

The King of Schnorrers

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Israel Zangwill


Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…

California Coast Trails

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Joseph Smeaton Chase


In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Curious Quest

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …

Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

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Amy Levy


Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but une…

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets

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Edward Lear


A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat&q…

Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

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Samuel Gordon


Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figur…

The Golem: A legend of old Prague

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Rudolf Lothar


Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…

The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

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William Combe


“To bury these, to christen those,And marry such fond folks who choseTo change the tenor of their lifeAnd risk the matrimonial strife.” This…

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