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Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic
Read by Tim Rowe
Francis Grierson
A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of pagani…
Robert Rigby A Kestrel For A Knave
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A Kestrel for a Knave Robert Rigby’s dramatisation of Barry Hines’s 1968 coming-of-age novel set in a mining town in South Yorkshire. Young …
First From the Front
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Harold Ashton
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories
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R. D. Wordsworth
According to the compiler, R.D. Wordsworth, this is a collection of the best stories told by Lincoln which made him famous as America's Best…
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
Unconventional
Read by J.J. Hebert
J.J. Hebert
YOUNG JAMES FROST just knows, deep in his bones, that he's a writer. He writes far into early mornings, after his wearying hours of scrubbin…
American Notes
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…
Coleshanger
Read by Norman E Williams
Norman E Williams
“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherw…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
The Angler
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Thomas Buchanan Read
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, …
Historical Romance of the American Negro
Read by Jim Locke
Charles H. Fowler
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
Biographies of Working Men
Read by NoelBadrian
Grant Allen
Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that …
Prisoner of the Mill
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Harry Hazelton
Subtitled "Captain Hayward's Body Guard”. An adventure story for boys.
Lost Diaries
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Maurice Baring
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…
The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Orville J. Victor
Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…
Ingersoll on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, …
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his popular lecture series on famous persons as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and …
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
My Buried Treasure
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Richard Harding Davis
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for t…