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The Octopus

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank Norris


Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…

The Night Operator

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank L. Packard


A collection of ten railroad short stories: "And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the …

The Common Law

Read by Thomas H. Burton


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


A history and review of the common law in the United States. (summary by TB27)

On the Iron at Big Cloud

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank L. Packard


Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- t…

The Autobiography of George Dewey

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


George Dewey


Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the S…

Running the Blockade

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Thomas E. Taylor


The first-person experiences and adventures of blockade runner during the American civil war. - Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


George Alfred Townsend


A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…

The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


David Miller DeWitt


April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…

From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Alfred Thayer Mahan


Alfred Thayer Mahan, American historian and author, whose The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 became instrumental in the form…

The Sinking of the ''Merrimac''

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Richmond Pearson Hobson


During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor …

Taken Liberty - A Tale from the Arbiter Chronicles

Read by Steven H. Wilson


Steven H. Wilson


Aer'La only wants to be free... The Confederated Worlds are unparalleled as a society of free people, yet, somehow, slavery still manages t…

The Pit

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank Norris


The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels: THE OCTOPUS,, a Story of California.THE PIT, a Story of Chicago.THE WOL…

The Oxford Solid State Basics

Read by Steven H. Simon


Steven H. Simon


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Jefferson B. Browne and Artemus Ward


Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain…

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Artemus Ward


Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain,…

An Adventure

Read by Martha H. Weller


Charlotte Anne Moberly


The Moberly–Jourdain incident was an event that occurred on 10 August 1901 in the gardens of the Petit Trianon, involving two female academi…

The Closed Cabinet

Read by Martha H. Weller


William James Mcglothlin


Here's Proof of the Love of the Weird and Mysterious in the Eighteenth Century. Eighteen-year-old Evie makes her first grown-up visit to her…

Music

Read by Martha H. Weller


Ursula Creighton


"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary fo…

The Making of Americans

Read by Martha H. Weller


Gertrude Stein


The Making of Americans is a novel written by Gertrude Stein over a long period of time (1906-1911) and finally published in 1925. It is sub…

A Symbol

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 1898

Read by Anna H.


Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

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