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The Convict
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wal…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…
Bettesworth's Exultation
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Jonathan Swift
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Bettesworth's Exultation Upon hearing that his name would be transmitted to posterity in Dr. S…
Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X
Read by Mark Nelson
Victor Appleton
Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—…
The Longest Journey
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E. M. Forster
Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical compa…
Frank Merriwell’s Trust (Dramatic Reading)
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Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriwell is from Yale he excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wron…
Michael Robson Everything Is Thunder
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Everything is Thunder by Michael Robson "Less than a month ago I was a complacent and relatively useful member of the community. My lif…
A Modest Proposal
Read by John Gonzalez
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…
Dr. Wesley Swift America's Dilemma Sunday Evening Jan. 14 1962
Sermon sourced from original ministry reel to reel tape.
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…
The Thing from the Lake
Read by Roger Melin
Eleanor M. Ingram
To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assista…
Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain
Read by Scarlett Martin
Oliver Optic
The sixth and last volume of the Woodville stories contains the record of a mechanical, rather than a moral triumph, though the virtues of p…
5 Science Fiction Stories by Mack Reynolds
Read by Phil Chenevert
Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
Five early stories by one of my favorite SF writers, Mack Reynolds. Medal of Honor is an intriguing look into the mind of someone who is ab…
Turns About Town
Read by Tom Penn
Robert Cortes Holliday
Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genu…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Whispering Tongues
Read by Donald Cummings
Homer Greene
Parmenter and Lee are good friends who attend Concord College. But a hazing incident tears the friendship apart, and affects the lives of bo…
Daylight Land
Read by Keith Salis
William Henry Harrison Murray
Mr. Murray takes us on an adventure that he has recorded as payment to his family in exchange for their permission to embark upon it. In thi…
Companionable Books
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Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…