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The Aristocrats

Read by TR Love


Gertrude Atherton


Being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in The Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her fri…

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…

Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Irvin S. Cobb


Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…

Bread

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Charles G. Norris


Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influence…

Earth's Enigmas

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts


Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many…

Lenz

Read by Rolf Kaiser


Georg Büchner


Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…

Six lectures on literature

Read by Phil Benson


Charles Harold Herford


C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time

Read by Kyle James Maclean


William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean

John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch! or The Remarkable Peregrinations of …

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A. F. Hill


Follow a Very Funny Man make the best and the worst of his infirmity!! (Summary by Christine Rottger)The language and ideas in this book ref…

Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

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Edward Bellamy


Henry Burr's fiance, Madeline, is seduced by another man. The guilt and painful memories she has as a result cause him to refer her to Dr. H…

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…

Walker's Appeal

Read by Jim Locke


David Walker


The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…

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…

Warm Honey

Read by Steve McAlpine


Steve McAlpine


Do you parents fill you up with their faults and add a few extra ones as a special bonus? Rob meets Charis at the same time as he is making …

Follies in Fiction

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

The Book of This and That

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Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…

Speeches: Literary and Social

Read by Bryn Roberts


Charles Dickens


Speeches: Literary and Social is a collection of speeches given by Charles Dickens in various settings, including banquets, public gathering…

The Egregious English

Read by David Wales


T. W. H. Crosland


This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090

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Various


In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…

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