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A Brief History of English and American Literature

Read by Kalynda


Henry A. Beers


Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

Companionable Books

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Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

The Story of the Other Wise Man

Read by David Leeson


Henry van Dyke


You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Beth…

Phineas Redux (Version 2)

Read by Deon Gines


Anthony Trollope


Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdl…

The Power of Concentration

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William Walker Atkinson


A series of twenty lessons designed to help develop and improve the power of concentration. (Summary by Andrea Fiore)Written under the pseud…

Lotgevallen van Robinson Crusoë

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Daniel Defoe


Robinson Crusoë weet 27 jaren, 2 maanden en 20 dagen te overleven op een onbewoond eiland, met een papagaai, een regenscherm en een gro…

Lalka (tom 3)

Read by Piotr Nater


Bolesław Prus


Ostatni tom dzieła Bolesława Prusa o miłości kupca Stanisława Wokulskiego do młodej arystokratki Izabeli Łęckiej osadzonego w szczegó…

Lalka (tom 1)

Read by Piotr Nater


Bolesław Prus


Pierwszy z trzech tomów klasycznego dzieła Bolesława Prusa opowiadającego historię miłości kupca Stanisława Wokulskiego do zubożałej …

Ion

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Thomas Noon Talfourd


This drama, set in Ancient Greece, was written by a Victorian lawyer who was a close friend of Charles Dickens. When collected into book for…

Nikolaas Nickleby

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


Dit is het verhaal van Nikolaas Nickleby en zijn zuster Kate die na het sterven van hun vader steun zoeken bij de broer van hun vader. In di…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

The War of the Worlds (Version 3)

Read by Cori Samuel


H. G. Wells


No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…

Alarms and Discursions

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…

Stories by English Authors: London

Read by Kirsten Wever


F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix

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Homer Eon Flint


In the Devolutionist, space travelers experiment with Venusian methods of telepathic space travel. They leave our solar system to discover a…

A Student's History of American Literature

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William Simonds


Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …

The Aspern Papers

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

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Stephen Leacock


Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

The Randolphs

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Pansy


The Randolphs is the sequel to Household Puzzles, and opens shortly after the previous book ends. It follows the "leadings of the Rando…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

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