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First From the Front
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Harold Ashton
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
De Klok van Meester Humphrey
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Enkele korte verhalen uit het weekblad 'De klok van meester Humphrey'. In dit blad zijn 'Nelly' en 'Barnaby Rudge' gepubliceerd. 'Schetsen v…
Essays and Literary Studies
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…
The History of Britain
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
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…
Shelagh Stephenson Darling Peidi
SANWAL
Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 20th Feb 1993, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM Darling Peidi by Shelagh Stepenson. The true st…
The Witches of New York
Read by Guero
Q. K. Philander Doesticks
A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Phi…
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…
The Serious Family
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Morris Barnett
The hypocrisy of the hyper-respectable social façade maintained by the Torrens family is in for an overdue disruption when they recei…
Sojourns On Mars
Read by Brian Downes
Brian Downes
Murdock Woodman’s life takes a turn when an old school friend asks the investigator to find $105,000 in stolen Disney collectibles, his web …
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…
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
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Various
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Touch and Go
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D. H. Lawrence
A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated …
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…
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…
Gossip in a Library
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Edmund Gosse
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…
De Pickwick-Club
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Dickens picareske verhaal over Samuel Pickwick en zijn vrienden (de ‘vurige’ Tracy Tupman, de ‘dichterlijke’ Augustus Snodgrass en de ‘sport…