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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…
Commentary on Acts of the Apostles
Read by Joanne Turner
Matthew Henry
An exhaustive verse-by-verse study of Acts, integrating it with both the Gospels and the Old Testament, by one of the more unconventional th…
First From the Front
Read by Steve C
Harold Ashton
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
Kipps
Read by Anthony Ogus
H. G. Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
Hindle Wakes
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Stanley Houghton
Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in …
The Patrician
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Aurora Floyd
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…
Miss Ashton's New Pupil
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Sarah Stuart Robbins
Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they…
Dawn of the Morning
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Grace Livingston Hill
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…
All the World
Read by Adele de Pignerolles
Charles Monroe Sheldon
The Great War is over and the soldier boys are back home, but some of them just can't settle down again. Neither can the girls who helped ou…
Persuasion (version 7)
Read by Judy Guinan
Jane Austen
Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to get out of debt, rents their home to an Admiral. The brother of the…
Sunbeams
Read by Arnold
George Wilbur Peck
George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, &qu…
The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk
Read by Myke Bartlett
Myke Bartlett
Theo Braithwaite, failed actress and worse waitress, is a stranger to London. In a single day, she loses her job, her boyfriend and quite po…
Dreams
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Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earli…
Elspeth Sandy Knox Bay
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Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 24th Apr 1993, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM Knox Bay by Elspeth Sandys. Jenny is only 12 but that …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
Emily Climbs, Version 3
Read by Rachel
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Teenage orphan Emily Starr of New Moon has always wanted to be a great writer. But her old-fashioned aunt, who has never liked Emily’s writi…
Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall
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Decline and Fall A six-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's dazzling first novel. Adapted by Jeremy Front 1: Theology undergraduate Paul Pennyf…
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…