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Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

J. Poindexter, Colored

Read by Grant Hurlock


Irvin S. Cobb


This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. M…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

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Various


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…

Die Menschen der Ehe

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John Henry Mackay


Ein Brief seiner Stiefschwester zieht den jungen Mann Franz Grach zurück in seine Heimatstadt. Konfrontiert mit der provinziellen Spie&…

The Hunting of the Snark

Read by Robert Garrison


Lewis Carroll


This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark. The Bellman, the Butcher, the Baker, the Beaver and…

Lausbubengeschichten

Read by Klaus Neubauer


Ludwig Thoma


Humorvoll berichtet der Schüler Ludwig von seinen Streichen wider Scheinheiligkeit und falsche Autorität in Bayern zur Zeit Kö…

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

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Variousandthomas Lansing Masson


Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


"Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, has…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

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Various


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Di…

The Pennycomequicks

Read by Michael Reuss


Sabine Baring-Gould


The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

Querkopf Wilson

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Mark Twain


In der am Mississippi gelegenen Kleinstadt Dawson's Landing vertauscht eine schwarze Sklavin ihr Baby mit dem ihres Herren um ihm vor dem Ve…

The Wit of Women

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Kate Sanborn


It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…

The May Day Murders

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Scott Wittenburg


The autumnal tranquility of Smithtown, Ohio is shattered when Dr. David Bradley arrives home to find that his wife has been raped and murder…

It's a Good Old World

Read by Stephen Escalera


Bruce Barton


In this collection of essays, Bruce Barton, considered to be among the most influential advertising men of the 20th century, uses history, r…

"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

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R. D. Wordsworth


According to the compiler, R.D. Wordsworth, this is a collection of the best stories told by Lincoln which made him famous as America's Best…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Why We Love Lincoln

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James Creelman


Brought to us by notable reporter and writer, James Creelman, this story of Abraham Lincoln is a more personal and simple portrait of the m…

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Read by Peter Tucker


Sir Walter Scott


An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…

The Outcast

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For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood…

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