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Essays and Literary Studies

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Stephen Leacock


A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062

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Various


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…

Simon Called Peter

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Robert Keable


Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…

Petticoat Government, Volume 2

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Frances Milton Trollope


The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close of Westhampton. - Summary by Mark Leder

You Should Worry Says John Henry

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Hugh Mchugh


A "not-so-always politically correct" commentary is delivered by the humorous and likeable John Henry on a variety of experiences …

Australian Miscellany

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Various


A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readin…

Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey


MIT OpenCourseWare


What do one mathematician, one artist, and one musician all have in common? Are you interested in zen Buddhism, math, fractals, logic, parad…

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 Ring and the Book - An Interpretation

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Francis Bickford Hornbrooke


Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in …

The Oxford Solid State Basics

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Steven H. Simon


University of Oxford Podcasts

Aspects of the Novel

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E. M. Forster


This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a V…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

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…

An Interpretation of Keats's Endymion

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Henry Clement Notcutt


Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. When it was published in April 1818 the critic…

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 Uncalled

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…

A Collection of the Facts and Documents Relative to the Death of Major-General …

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William Coleman


Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…

In these days . . .

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Ebenezer Elliott


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of In these days . . . by Ebenezer Elliott. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 23rd…

Reading: An Essay

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Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Books By Tessa Hadley



Books Written by Tessa Hadley Novelist Paul Sand died 20 years ago and now his wife has died too. At their seaside home her daughter and a u…

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