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Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Oxford Book of American Essays
Read by James E. Carson
Various
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…
The Outcast
Read by Expatriate
For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood…
The History of Mr. Polly
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
H. G. Wells
A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…
The Cave In the Mountain
Read by Thomas Rose
Edward S. Ellis
Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…
Great Expectations (version 2)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…
The Misadventures of Si & Elmer 41 Eps
Various
(41 Episodes: 1st 3 Cases) "The Misadventures of Si & Elmer" (aka "Si & Elmer") was a daily 15 minute comedic so…
Blackbeard: Buccaneer
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Ralph Delahaye Paine
Blackbeard: Buccaneer tells the story of the infamous Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. This book is an exciting depictio…
The Curious Quest
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …
La Aventura Del Ciclista Solitario
Read by tity
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ésta es una aventura del detective inglés Sherlock Holmes. Él es es el prototipo de investigador cerebral por excelenci…
Rue Morgue Redux by Neil Munro
SANWAL CBC Radio
Rue Morgue Redux by Neil Munro Taking his cue from the brilliant Poe, the author sets his intriguing mystery in Toronto on New Year's Eve, 1…
The Return of Alfred
Read by Anna Simon
Herbert George Jenkins
The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…
The Ancient Allan
Read by Keith Salis
H. Rider Haggard
This is the thrilling tale as told by Allan Quatermain of events in his life, or should we say his lives? By the use of a mystical herb, he …
Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist
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Winthrop Packard
Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…
Tremendous Trifles
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
Robinson Crusoe's Story
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Charles Edward Carryl
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of Robinson Crusoe's Story by Charles Edward Carryl, published in "Modern America…
The Ontario Readers: Third Book
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Various
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
The Invisible Man (Version 3)
Read by Andrew Gaunce
H. G. Wells
A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of…
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this …