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In the Wilderness
Read by Zach Hoyt
Charles Dudley Warner
These eight essays about Charles Dudley Warner’s visit to the Adirondacks cover a broad range of topics, all with more or less of his dry hu…
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…
Rich Crooks
Read by Ben Tucker
Gordon Young
"Seated in a restaurant in New York City, Don Everhard suddenly finds himself involved in an insidious plot, the entanglements of which…
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 Testaments of John Davidson
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John Davidson
The oft-maligned Testaments of John Davidson work as a sublime, psychopathic post-Nietzchean (Zarathustra was merely Davidson's springboard …
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098
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Various
"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…
A Book of Scoundrels
Read by Greg Lewin
Charles Whibley
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Lost Leaders
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…
David Blaize
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E. F. Benson
Written during World War I but set before the war, David Blaize is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys boarding school. We follow David…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems
Read by Phil Schempf
James Russell Lowell
A collection of poems by Lowell, one of the Fireside poets with Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Bryant, including a sketch of his life. T…
The Times
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Percy Egerton-Bompas, M.P., and Mrs Bompas have secrets in their family. Which promise grave difficulties as they try to marry off their dau…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2
Read by Jim Locke
William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Douglas Young Regatta
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Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 13th Apr 1985, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM Regatta A tale of Edwardian espionage by Douglas Young…
Ending Well
Richard Heyduck
We see some clues to ending well - whether our schooling, our career, or our lives - in the lives of Simeon and Anna.
David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology
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James Orr
David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…
Alan Bernnett The History Boys
Alan Bennett's play on the subject of education, encompassing both the tussles of staff-room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence. At a gr…