Jim Locke

The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane

by Alain René Lesage Read by Jim Locke 4.9
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at t…

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Jim Locke 4.6
Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…

The Life of Washington, Volume 3

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 5
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder Read by Jim Locke 4.3
The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…

The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution

by Carl L. Becker Read by Jim Locke
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

by Mary Johnston Read by Jim Locke 4.1
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…

The Primitive

by Chester Himes Read by Jim Locke
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)

The Chronicles of America Volume 15 - Jefferson and his Colleagues

by Allen Johnson Read by Jim Locke
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…

The Inheritance

by Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier Read by Jim Locke 4
"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…

Virginia

by Ellen Glasgow Read by Jim Locke 4.5
Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first man who proposes, and devotes her life to her husband and …

Fact Stranger than Fiction

by John Patterson Green Read by Jim Locke 5
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…

The Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 4
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Chicago May: Her Story

by May Churchill Sharpe Read by Jim Locke 5
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…

Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love

by Baba Premanand Bharati Read by Jim Locke 3.3
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…

Epochs of American History: The Colonists 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites Read by Jim Locke 4.5
This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…

The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 5

by Max Arthur Macauliffe Read by Jim Locke 4.8
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had exte…

True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life

by Sarah Farro Read by Jim Locke 5
The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…

The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs

by William Wood Read by Jim Locke 4.7
Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…

Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Jim Locke 2.8
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…

The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 5
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…

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