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Diana Tempest
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
Colonel Tempest , his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest,…
The History of London
Read by Ruth Golding
Walter Besant
Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth …
The Silver Bullet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Fergus Hume
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the ligh…
English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture
Read by Leon Harvey
Sir Francis Galton
The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the "pre-eminent"…
Modern Essays
Read by David Wales
Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works
Read by Bill Boerst
Various
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia
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Henry William Haygarth
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall
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Herbert George Jenkins
John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional method…
A Man of Honor
Read by Roger Melin
George Eggleston
New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-establishe…
The Doctor's Dilemma
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George Bernard Shaw
The Doctor's Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently been knighted because of a miraculous new treatment he developed for tub…
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 2
Read by James R. Hedrick
Robert Paltock
The imaginary voyage, from which a hero returns made wise through extraordinary experience, is at least as old as Odysseus. But the major in…
The Forgery
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Malcolm
Read by Devorah Allen
George MacDonald
Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 15)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is volume 3 chapter 15 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1959) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…
Lord Clive
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…
Ivanhoe
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Sir Walter Scott
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…
A History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 2
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
Selected Public Domain Poems
Read by Liam Neely
John Masefield
Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (…
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…