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100%: The Story of a Patriot

Read by Lee Smalley


Upton Sinclair


"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

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Nat Love


Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

The Compleat Angler

Read by Nicole Lee


Izaak Walton


The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…

Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia

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Thomas Browne


Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…

In the Line of Battle

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Walter Wood


“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…

Culture and Anarchy

Read by Nicole Lee


Matthew Arnold


Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…

The Burning Secret

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Stefan Zweig


A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a Eur…

A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell

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Ernest Protheroe


Medieval English

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Stuart Lee


University of Oxford Podcasts

Fighting the Whales

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R. M. Ballantyne


A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction…

Greener Than You Think

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Ward Moore


Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course wh…

Inside the Lines

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Earl Derr Biggers


As World War I commences, a plucky young American woman in Europe on a business trip begins to realize that she may have remained too long. …

The Highest Treason

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Randall Garrett


Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, h…

A Rebel's Recollections

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George Eggleston


George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…

The Thousandth Woman

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E. W. Hornung


E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th…

Devlin the Barber

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B. L. Farjeon


The stabbing death of a beautiful young woman in a London park at night and the disappearance of her sister; a shocked and heartbroken young…

The Last Entry

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William Clark Russell


This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his …

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 4

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Samuel Richardson


Volume 4 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…

Nothing But the Truth

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Frederic Stewart Isham


A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolu…

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