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Partial Portraits
Read by Rita Boutros
Henry James
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …
Writing Wrongly
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
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…
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 …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Educide
Read by S. Lawrence Parrish
S. Lawrence Parrish
Meet Avery Carmichael, student-teacher. This year he's teamed up with Mr. Samuel Petersen, veteran teacher. Avery is about to get an educati…
On Liberty
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John Stuart Mill
Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…
Walker's Appeal
Read by Jim Locke
David Walker
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
Lady Baltimore
Read by Lois Hill
Owen Wister
Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research genealogies an…
Lancashire Characters and Places
Read by Phil Benson
Thomas Newbigging
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…
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…
Quilt, Book and Bard
Read by Bryna Chalmer
Bryna Chalmer
For years the picture of the man with the oxcart has hung on the wall of her Aunt and Uncle's house. It never occurred to Tory that one day …
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet
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A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick With: Carleton Hobb…
Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by David Wales
G. K. Chesterton
This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitl…
Main Street (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…
Nick Warburton Every Book In The World
Every Book in the World By Nick Warburton The Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps aimed to own a copy of every book in the world. Bu…
Monologues
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Richard Middleton
This is a collection of 32 highly diverting essays of English author Richard Middleton. Although Middleton is now best remembered for his gh…
The Tyranny of Weakness
Read by Roger Melin
Charles Neville Buck
Torn between her love for her aging father, a minister steeped in the puritanical values of old New England, and the young Virginian who was…
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition
Read by David Wales
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)