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All Things Considered

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…

Joseph Andrews

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…

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.…

Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw


Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor…

The Status Civilization

Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)


Robert Sheckley


Will Barrent awakes without memories just before being deposited on Omega, a planet for criminals where the average life expectancy is 3 yea…

Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

Inside Earth

Read by Phil Chenevert


Poul William Anderson


This story takes place in the not so distant future. Earth has been conquered and is a subjugated planet, the much too humanoid new rulers …

The Chapter Ends

Read by Phil Chenevert


Poul William Anderson


Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillio…

The Story of Mankind

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Hendrik Van Loon


Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the p…

The Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf


A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

Seed Thoughts

Read by InTheDesert


Joseph Caryl


There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

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 …

A Fiend in Need

Read by Ben Tucker


Milton K. Ozaki


There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plu…

The Purging Of Ruen

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Thomas Corfield


When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers it’s on the br…

Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons


Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

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Various


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides…

Around the World in Eighty Days (Dramatic Reading)

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Jules Verne


In London, 1872, a rich English gentlemen named Mr. Phileas Fogg argues with the members in the Reform Club, and takes on a journey around t…

By Pike and Dyke

Read by David Leeson


G. A. Henty


It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish…

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders

Read by KHand


John Lord


Continuing the series with European Leaders, Dr. Lord discusses William IV, Sir Robert Peel, Cavour, Czar Nicholas, Louis Napoleon, Prince B…

The Pennycomequicks

Read by Michael Reuss


Sabine Baring-Gould


The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

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