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In Kent with Charles Dickens

Read by Ruth Golding


Thomas Frost


By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01

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Various


This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

The World's Lumber Room

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Selina Gaye


If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …

East by West, Vol. 2

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…

Birds in the Calendar

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Frederick G. Aflalo


Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

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Castello Newton Holford


Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…

Blottentots and How to Make Them

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John Prosper Carmel


This is very short, but it is a book with lots of pictures, and it will be even better if you can look at the pictures in the book at http:/…

Merry Clappum Junction

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Arnold Kennedy


This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house eith…

A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

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Various


In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be desc…

Ruby Wedding Collection

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Various


This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The read…

The World of Sound

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Sir William Henry Bragg


The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…

The Prophet (version 5)

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Kahlil Gibran


The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…

A Lady of Quality

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups an…

Thoughts are Things (Version 2)

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Prentice Mulford


Prentice Mulford was also instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy, New Thought, along with other notable writers including Ra…

The Dawn of a To-morrow

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…

How We Think

Read by Linda Andrus


John Dewey


A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irr…

In the Closed Room

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


This is a short story about a shy, quiet little girl living in a big city. When her parents are offered the opportunity to take care of a ho…

His Grace of Osmonde

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashi…

Robin

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI Engli…

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