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Short Works on Sports Collection 01
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Various
A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…
The Splendid Wayfaring
Read by Phil Schempf
John Neihardt
Quote:"In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansio…
Die Entführung
Read by Hokuspokus
Joseph Von Eichendorff
Romantik pur: ein edles verarmtes Fräulein, ein wilder Räuberhauptmann, ein edler Graf, eine schöne aber eigensinnige Dame, a…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918
Read by David Wales
N. P. Dawson
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds t…
The Dawn of a To-morrow
Read by Linda Andrus
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…
The Early Adventures of Don Everhard
Read by Ben Tucker
Gordon Young
Before Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and before Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, there was Don Everhard, hard-boiled professional gamb…
Nach berühmten Mustern
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Fritz Mauthner
Im 1. Band der Gesamtausgabe von Mauthners Schriften erschienen 1919 ausgewählte Parodien über einige seiner bekannten Schriftstel…
The Celebrity
Read by Joseph Tabler
Winston Churchill
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
The Return of Don Quixote
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G. K. Chesterton
The mirthful story of a Don Quixote who, riding into a world of fetes and parties, tilts a humorous and well aimed lance at some of the conv…
Bob and Ray WOR 688 October 24 1975
B2
The morning of the opening of "A Tale Of Two Cities" and dipa of the do. B2 has provided another dipa dah too clean to be truly di…
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 Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
The Admirable Crichton
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J. M. Barrie
From the author of Peter Pan:Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Anton Tchekhov: and other essays
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Lev Shestov
This book was called Nachala i Kontzy when first published in 1908 in Russian and has been titled Anton Tchekhov and other essays as well as…
Varied Types
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …
Winnowed Wisdom
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
The Talisman
Read by Lizzie Driver
Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …