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Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
The Chain of Destiny
Read by Ben Tucker
Bram Stoker
Frank Stanford, strapping young man, heads out to the countryside to visit his old friends Mr. and Mrs. Trevor as the Scarp estate. What beg…
The Elements of Conchology
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William Ruschenberger
The fifth of the Series of First Books of Natural History, embraces that branch of our subject which treats of the Mollusca, or soft animals…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
A Modest Proposal
Read by John Gonzalez
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…
The Old Adam
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Arnold Bennett
Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midland…
Four Great Americans
Read by Sibella Denton
James Baldwin
Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be i…
Eternity
Read by Casey S Townsend
Casey S Townsend
The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…
A Brief History of English and American Literature
Read by Kalynda
Henry A. Beers
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…
Isles of Eden
Read by KevinS
Laura Lee Davidson
A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is ind…
A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 2
Read by George Yeager
David Hume
This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…
The Master's Indwelling
Read by Christopher Smith
Andrew Murray
In all the writings of the late nineteenth century minister and writer Andrew Murray, we see his passion for reality in the lives of Christi…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
New World Orders
Read by Edward G. Talbot
Edward G. Talbot
In the nineteen-sixties, a group of wealthy men concludes that it's already too late to stop global warming from destroying the planet. But …