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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…
Companionable Books
Read by MaryAnn
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…
Fidelity
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, …
A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
The Beatles, January 13, 1966 [Lecture]
WFCR Broadcast Collection
The Beatles January 13, 1966 WFCR Radio Four College Lecture Hall: lecture on the Beatles impact on popular culture and mass culture. Speake…
Emily Climbs, Version 2
Read by Nancy Halper
Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Emily Climbs” is the second book in a series by the author of "Anne of Green Gables." Emily Byrd Starr, an orphan living with her…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
Dawn Lowe Wilson The Wind Pump
SANWAL
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Wind Pump Sat 11th Feb 1995, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Dawn Lowe-Watson With James L…
Gordon McKerrow We Will Know Them
SANWAL
By Gordon McKerrow A white feather. imprisonment and force-feeding: such could be the fate of the 'conchy ' in the First World War. M…
Miss Marjoribanks
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Margaret O. Oliphant
One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 …
Moll Flanders - Version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Daniel Defoe
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
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…
Die Judenbuche
Read by Rolf Kaiser
Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff
Ein Sittengemälde aus dem gebirgigen Westfalen.Banden, die Forstdiebstahl im großen Stil betreiben, von allen Mitwissern gedeckt;…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manne…
Endospore
Read by R.A. Wilson
R.A. Wilson
Alan is a virgin, but that is not a big problem for him with Tracy and Gwinn desiring his attentions. He has larger concerns on his mind. He…
A Spinner in the Sun
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Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
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…
