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The Function of a Town Library, by Josiah P. Quincy

In Why do we need a public library?

Read by Michele Fry

Various

Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…

Charles James Fox - IV - On the Refusal to Negotiate with France

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

Read by Michele Fry

William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

The Crocuses - Read by MTF

In The Crocuses

Read by Michele Fry

Frances E. W. Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of socia…

The caliph and ''the man with the stew'' (eighth century A.D.), by E. H. Palmer

In The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Read by Michele Fry

Eva March Tappan

This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill, Read by MTF

In Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

Read by Michele Fry

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …

01. 1.1 – PART I, CHAPTER I – Preface and Introduction

In A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin

Read by Michele Fry

Harriet Beecher Stowe

After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, ther…

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