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Character Building
Read by Luke Sartor
Booker T. Washington
Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Ind…
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa
Read by SallyMc
Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at th…
The Story of Slavery
Read by Darryl McElwee
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, the author of the following sketch of slavery in America, was himself born a slave, and the story of his life begins w…
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Sense Memory
Read by Brion J. Humphrey
Brion J. Humphrey
If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…
The Warlord of Mars (version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the la…
My Bondage and My Freedom
Read by Jim Locke
Frederick Douglass
The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circum…
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette
Read by Celine Major
Henriette Campan
Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…
To The Lighthouse
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
The Negro
Read by Jim Locke
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …
The Men of Zanzibar
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Richard Harding Davis
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expa…
The Death of Lord Nelson
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William Beatty
"The Surgeon of the late illustrious Lord NELSON feels himself called upon, from the responsible situation which he held on the eventfu…
Quest of the Golden Ape
Read by Mark Nelson
Randall Garrett and Stephen Marlowe
How could this man awaken with no past—no childhood—no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for ve…
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…
The Story of My Life and Work
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Booker T. Washington
The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser t…
Youth
Read by Bill Boerst
Leo Tolstoy
Youth is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, published in a literary journal d…
Nostromo (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…
Pariah Planet (version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Murray Leinster
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions…
Psmith, Journalist
Read by Psuke Bariah
P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith takes over editing a paper while the usual editor is away on vacation. He takes on a local slum lord, and divers alarums ensue. (desc…