reader:"Sir John Richardson and Gijs van Hensbergen"

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers

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John Lord

The 13th in the series, this book focuses on the great writers of the time. As Dr. Lord passed away prior to the completion of his lecture s…

Certain Personal Matters

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H. G. Wells

Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pi…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 043

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Various

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

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Henry Mayhew

Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Heroes Every Child Should Know

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of m…

Robert Falconer

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George MacDonald

A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)

Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of t…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

Arthur Paul Harper

“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be c…

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Roche…

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Gilbert Burnet

I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…

The Manchester Man

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Isabella Varley Banks

Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…

Peaks of Shala

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Rose Wilder Lane

This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an…

Deutsche Hausmärchen

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Johann Wilhelm Wolf

Johann Wilhelm Wolf war Germanist und Schriftsteller, sein Schwager Wilhelm von Ploennies war Leutnant, Militärschriftsteller und Ü…

Jenseit des Tweed

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Theodor Fontane

Fontanes Bericht über seine Reise nach Schottland mit seinem Freund Bernhard von Lepel. In dem für Fontane charakteristischen Stil…

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

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Henry Fielding

This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

Adventskalender 2009

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Various

Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1.-24. Dezember einen Text oder ein Gedicht. Viele haben eine…

De lotgevallen van Ferdinand Huyck

Read by Anna Simon

Jacob Van Lennep

Een avonturenroman vol mysteries - met zeerovers, struikrovers, schipbreuken, moord en doodslag - afgunst, wraak en rampspoed afgewisseld do…

Reading: An Essay

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Hugh Walpole

A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Our New Zealand Cousins

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James Inglis

A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …

Samuel Johnson

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Lynda Mugglestone

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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

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Robert Henry Newell

These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

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