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Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

Writing Wrongly

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Thomas Corfield

When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

Turns About Town

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Robert Cortes Holliday

Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genu…

Another Study of Woman

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Honoré de Balzac

A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum …

Prejudices, First Series

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H. L. Mencken

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…

The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)

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Henry James

Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…

Tremendous Trifles

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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 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 …

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

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William Alexander Gerhardi

From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Max Beerbohm

In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Selections from Harris's Cabinet

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William Roscoe

In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…

Bacon

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Richard William Church

This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

Babbitt

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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises …

The Real Thing

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Henry James

The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about th…

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 Dial, May 1920

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Various

An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed…

History of Modern Philosophy

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Alfred William Benn

This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Le…

Senator North

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Gertrude Atherton

"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080

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Various

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manne…

An Essay on Man

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Alexander Pope

Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…

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