Culture & Heritage

The Black Candle

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson


Emily Murphy


Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …

Original Stories from Real Life

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…

In Old Plantation Days

Read by Jim Locke


Paul Laurence Dunbar


With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…

The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes)

Read by Michael O'Kelly


Marcel Proust


Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…

The Mother (Version 2)

Read by Michele Fry


Pearl S. Buck


As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…

Baltimore Hats

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William T. Brigham


It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…

Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

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Various


This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…

Voyage en Italie

Read by Christiane Jehanne


François-René de Chateaubriand


Chateaubriand écrit à son ami, monsieur Joubert, aussi à monsieur de Fontanes, il nous relate son voyage dans diff&eacu…

Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

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Montague Glass


Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

Stories and Pictures

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I. L. Peretz


A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…

Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem

Read by Jim Locke


Sutton Griggs


Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…

The Sturdy Oak

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Various


At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely gener…

South African Folk-Tales

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James A. Honeÿ


James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …

Savage Holiday

Read by Jim Locke


Richard Wright


Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…

Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman

Read by Ed Humpal


Various


On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a "Committee of Citizens" in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor.…

The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and N…

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Mary Shauffler Labaree


Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage i…

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian

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Unknown


This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…

The Fortunes of Nigel

Read by Jim Locke


Sir Walter Scott


During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…

The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

Read by Kurt


Anonymoustranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler and Unknowntranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler


The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Li…

Dark Princess

Read by Verla Viera


W. E. B. Du Bois


This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

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