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Days With Sir Roger de Coverley
Read by Elijah Fisher
Joseph Addison
The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…
The Phoenix Conspiracy
Read by Richard L Sanders
Richard L Sanders
Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they ar…
Books Fatal to Their Authors
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Peter Hempson Ditchfield
This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…
Seed Thoughts
Read by InTheDesert
Joseph Caryl
There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…
The Arizona Callahan
Read by John
Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and H. Bedford-Jones
The same distinguished writer who gave you such thrilling stories of far places as “The Brazen Peacock” and “Lou-Lou” knows the odd corners …
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
A Brief History of English and American Literature
Read by Kalynda
Henry A. Beers
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race
Read by Theoden Humphrey
John Clay Coleman
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
Biltmore Oswald
Read by Nigel Boydell
J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …
How to Write a Novel
Read by Brett W. Downey
William James Mcglothlin
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…
Tremendous Trifles
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
The Ontario Readers: Third Book
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Various
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
Anchorite
Read by Phil Chenevert
Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards patern…
Guys Can Read
Read by Dave Cornford
Dave Cornford
GUYS can read? Hell yeah, and they can listen too.
You'll love the eight stories in this collection because they each have something about …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
The Story of Wool
Read by David Olson
Sara Ware Bassett
Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)
The Manchester Man
Read by Phil Benson
Isabella Varley Banks
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…