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Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
Doctor Johnson: A Play
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A. Edward Newton
The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II
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James Boswell
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)
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James Boswell
This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been an…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)
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James Weldon Johnson
The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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James Weldon Johnson
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …
Prayers and Meditations
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Samuel Johnson
The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johns…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I
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James Boswell
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…
1 & 2 Peter (KJV) Read by James Earl Jones
Ferox Aeternum
1 & 2 Peter (KJV) Read by James Earl Jones
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
1 & 2 Corinthians (KJV) Read by James Earl Jones
Ferox Aeternum
1 & 2 Corinthians (KJV) Read by James Earl Jones
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
How to Write a Novel
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William James Mcglothlin
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III
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James Boswell
This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this …
Putting the Most Into Life
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Booker T. Washington
The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. IV
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James Boswell
This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this…
The Word of an Engineer
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)
Read by Barbara Baker
James Boswell
This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…